Submission on the NDIS Amendment Bill

I am an: Disabled Person AND Service Provider - Art Therapist

My connection to this issue While I am not currently enrolled with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), my experience spans both periods where access was difficult or impossible as well as times when accessing support became possible—potentially paving future pathways within the scheme’s framework.

During 10 years living through the Disablity Support Pension program (🎯♉︎) ➥, it allowed me flexibility during study phases at slower paces enabling qualification acquisition & increased hourly earnings rates. as an art therapist working closely alongside young teens adults who may have found mainstream service providers inaccessible, i observe short-term benefits from therapeutic interventions prioritizing participant accessibility. currently about eighty percent of clients served fall into those supported via the NDIS; however numerous remain unable due insufficient neuroaffirming practices.

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

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What I believe this Bill gets wrong

Disabilities do not exist in a vacuum. When you decide not to fund something for a participant and do not take into account their personal situation, you are pushing that cost onto someone else. This can happen through trying to access already exhausted public health services, or risking wellbeing due increased expectations placed upon them informal support systems. The following consequences may arise:

• Increased hospital admissions because inappropriate supports fail leading deterioration/injury among both participants & informants;
• More patients admitted psychiatric facilities which have reached capacity limits; -Increased demand addiction treatment as individuals struggle accessing necessary care; -Housing disability pension jobseeker service requirements rise when reducing limiting access disabilities means inability work financially stressful mental well-being heightened risk needing further assistance; -Job seekers market collapse impacting thousands of Australians who lose livelihoods financial burden increases other essential services needed step up;