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

Submission 1850

To the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, My name is redacted. I am an NDIS participant, a parent of two children who are also on the NDIS, and a part-time IT worker living in regional Tasmania. The NDIS is not an abstract policy issue for my family. My current plan supports me to keep working, build self-care and parenting skills, improve relationships at homeandinthe community,and access therapy strategies that help mefunction more independently.My wife redactedalso provides daily informal supportwith planningorganisingselfcareroutines making suremy needsare met.TheNDISispartofthestructurethat helpsme stay employedstay connectedcontribute.Itisaaltpart what keeps pressure from falling entirely onto myfamily.Iam concerned this bill proceeds with major eligibility fundingchanges before foundationalsupports actually placeThe independent review made recommendations supporting actions government itself said careful sequencing needed so most important foundations wereplace broader reforms occurredThat matter mine situation because do have spare capacity sitting unusedplan luxury spendingfunds Supports helping maintain workparentingrelationships independenceIf reduced or narrowed impact does disappear moves towife workplace health services schools crisis systems already stretched Cutting NDIs may look saving one budget line but it same need reappears hospitals mentalhealthservices housing stress breakdown unpaid careI also concern lack democratic authority changes scale proposal remove large numbers people scheme reduce average plans wasnot taken Australian people 205 federal election People disability families life decisions based public promise once grantedscheme provide lifelong accordingneed That matters should quietly rewritten through budgetpressure administrative redesign NDIS integrity clarity sustainability I action against fraud poor providers But dealt directly evidence enforcement transparency not used general justification reducing supports legitimately disabled relying on the scheme live ordinary lives ask committee answer three questions allowingthisbill proceed Foundational reviews described necessary preconditions exist basis isgovernment proceedingwitheligibility changesbefore they are in What has Treasury modelled as downstream costtohospitalsmental heathservicesserviceshousingeducation systemsupaid family carers ifNDSwithdrawssupport? And given these changeswere nottakenAustralianpeople atthe

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

Submission 1850 election, on what democratic basis does the government claim authority for changes of this magnitude? I ask the committee to recommend that this bill not proceed until foundational supports are genuinely in place, downstream cost modelling has been released, and an independent human rights assessment has been completed. I also ask the committee to recommend a Disability Rights Act so that the rights of disabled people are not dependent on which minister or government happens to be in power.