National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Submission 1751 My name is [redacted]. I am a disabled person whom these changes impact directly. I am making this submission so that my voice is heard and may influence your decisions on this issue. Like many others, I believe these decisions should be made with disabled people, not above us. These changes are firmly above us. When you consider the historical context of disability in Australia, the proposed changes push us back toward a eugenic asylum model—where people like me are forced into institutions and denied the right to public life. This is cruel and inhumane. My key concerns include: loss of supports, reduced community participation, changes to eligibility and assessment processes, automated decision-making, and placing accountability for service fraud onto disabled people through registration requirements—not providing adequate funding to the NDIS Safeguards Commission.

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Non-Contact Amendment:

Throughout that lengthy rejection process, an NDIS representative called me regularly to pressure me into attending meetings without my support coordinator—and without any intention of processing my claim to have my physical impairments recognised, which was the stated purpose of those reviews. The representative kept pushing me to proceed regardless of the fact that my physical disabilities had not yet been assessed. Shortly after my physical disabilities were again rejected, another NDIS representative revealed that the first staff member had been fabricating the record—writing that I was uncontactable even though we had spoken approximately every week for several weeks. I had been answering my phone and returning emails repeatedly declining the meeting because I believed it would waste NDIS resources to hold a review before my physical data had been assessed Even so despite how much physical disability data provided againmy physical impairments were againrejected Under non-contact provisions this Bill proposesIwouldhavebeenleftwithoutanysupporteventhoughwas in-factansweringphoneandrespondingtoemails could provide evidence proveit Realistically if disabled person becomes contactable with NDIS should signal something wrong may need additional support injured unsafe environment or died These changes will cause further isolation desperation likely lead moredisabilitydeath do want return livingbeforemay as well dead Assessment Support Access My experience assessment poor no option appealstated explicitlyinrejection documentation One responses received said hadn’t tried all treatment options - being surgery Anatomically complex others same medical conditions forced overseas receive surgical intervention If an intervention is geographically available treating team have excluded these interventions due risk appropriateness service unreasonable deny access Scheme on grounds This acting against device Bill specifically reinforce rejectionsaccessgrounds comparable American private health insurance system resulting unnecessary deaths thousands people Physical disability childhood apparently good enough background information fact condition leaving me bed-bound destroying

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my neurological and organ function did not matter to the existing framework. The documentation I provided from multiple specialised doctors and allied health professionals was also rejected in tavour of the opinions of unqualified assessor’s which this BIll only reinforces - This is dangerousand costly.

Community services and government-funded support were excluded as options for me, because these services in my location specifically exclude permanently disabled people—and I am veryclearly permanently and severely disabled. These services consider this to be the role of thenNDIS.Iwasleftwithnothingbeforemypyschosocialdisabilitywascarerecognisedwhichgavemeaccesstosome—butnotall—ofthesupportsIneeded.Realistically,fundingmophysical disabilitieswouldreducethefundingneededforcommunityaccesinmycase.

Impact of the proposed changesTheproposedchangesarelikelytomakethisworse:Increasingstrainonourhospitalsystems anda nd communityservices,which are underfund ed , staffedbyoverworkedunderpaidworkers with governments committedtofollowingtheUSA downtherivatisationrabbit hole-despite cleverevidence thatthedisablesandrillspeople.While Ihaveprivatehealthinsuranceitdoes n ot covertheseservicesl require . Communityparticipationisacrucialcomponentofmysuppor ts.Becausethesupporthadfromthen ND IS,Iwa ble tore-engageuni versitystudyamduegraduateyear albeitindifferentdegreeasIcannotcompletemypreviousdegreewithout m physical disabilitiessupportedthrought he NDIS.In cannotmeetuniversityrequirementswithou tthis.My independence wouldthereforebeevenhigherif myphysicaldisabilitieswererecognise d —This Bill reinforces inacc esseducationformeandmany peoplelike me. Cuts to these services woul mean I can not attend all healthappointments engage inc ommunityartprojects go toparkornavigate unive rsityortown—especially slopes Icannotmanagewithoutpowerassistfunctionorsupportworkerpushme.Ivaluemyalone time andindependence.Ido no want be dependent on someone pushing aroundall thetime or having choose miss out opportunitieswould further education carer mentalophysicalwellbeing.

Automated decision-making anda fraudAutomateddecisionmakingon healthcareissuesissimplyRobodebt20.Morepublicservants will lose jobs but this won’t save money—the responsibilitywillshifttohospitalspsychiatricwards.Therearenobedsandwhenpresentinghealthissuechronic hospitalswillothelpus.Thismeanwearedetiorateuntildiedbelieve government

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knows this, and knows the name for this is “eugenics.”\n\nfraud has been front-and-centre in media and on lips politicians view as getting more than deserve rorting system expecting us self-funded There little evidence issue primarily coming participants belief reinforced political leaders understand scheme needs sustainable however successive governments pushing privatisation services pushed up costs reduced access public health services capacity provide service bill suggesting very clear solution properly tax large corporations billionaires so governmen have capacity adequately funds Australians need whether health housing disability aged care education transport Choice control accountable My savings fund basic life shelter food water electricity medical services currently cannot work Cannot draw from these saving without leaving myself short of shelter food electric medica Receiving right disabili serv through ndis would enable me works increase independence likely reduc some other services I rely choice controllable but when account fails does choi Forcing disabled into therapies settings procedures we identify unsafe financially geographically inaccessible inherently damaging waste resources This allows harms to increas experienced forced healthcare consequences body mind extreme those who were force witness it Provider registration not solut only providers ripped off my funding registered because Safeguards Commission underfunded accountability dodgy provider abuse disabled people government funding continues Conclusion Realistically Government know reason huge budget blowout Privatising disability support while failing funded accountability systems always lead issues see now Rather fixing accountability or returning publ model instead choosing reduce disabled peoples acces

National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 1751

• to public life, health services, housing,life expectancy ,and qualityoflifewhichreducesthesesameaspects offilforourfamiliesandfriends.

The thoughtofforgoingbacktowhowIusedtotobeforcedtoliveishorrifying.Itwasrot.DreamingofofwouldicandoifyophysicalimpairmentswererecognisedandsupportedisdevastatingandthisBillonlymakesthosedreamsa moreconcretereality.Iamscaredwillrunoutofsavings,bunabletosworkdueinaudiatesupport,andenduphomelessordead.ThisistnotwhytheNDISissupposedexist. ThisBills cruel. Respectfully,Youneedtolistentodisablepeople,outheadvocates,theexistingdecisionsbyTribunalsandthefederalCourts.Youneedeensuredecisionsofmaticaldisabilitycarearemadebymedicalandalliedhealtpersonsalongsidethedisabledpersontheyareworkwith.Ourhealthcaresidisabilitycareworksbestwhencodesigniscentralpillar.