NDIA Accountability Project

Opposes NDIS amendment bill due to potential impact on access to essential supports and risk of negative outcomes for disabled people

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Submission 1933

28 May 2026

Committee Secretary Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600

Dear Committee Members,

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

I am writing to recommend that the government withdraw the Bill.

It is clear that the disabled community across Australia is feeling powerless to stop these changes, despite their fierce opposition to such changes and their deep despair at what these changes would mean for their lives.

I would like to bring your attention to one aspect of the amendment bill which underscores a seismic shift: it proposes a support being “reasonable and necessary” is overridden by the future sustainability of the scheme. Does the government actually believe this is the basis for a valid decision-making model?

How will the NDIA decide the future sustainability of the NDIS is more important than a person having access to a motorised wheelchair? Will it just deny the wheelchair? Will it just employ lawyers to battle a disabled person on this decision?

How will the NDIS decide that the future sustainability of the NDIS is more important than a single mother with debilitating chronic pain being able to access weekly hydrotherapy, the only strength exercise she can engage in, and support to go to hydrotherapy. Will it just cut funding for hydrotherapy?

Submission 1933

How will the NDIS decide that the future sustainability of the NDIS is more important than a child having a support worker to pick them up from school and take them home or to scheduled appointments three days a week so their mother can keep her job and look after her other children without having a breakdown? Will it just cut funding for children’s supports?

The contents of this bill are driven by the anti-NDIS rhetoric espoused in Parliament by One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson this year. It marks a terrifying descent into eugenics-based policy. That may not be the intention, but it would be the inevitable and direct result of this bill.

Many disabled people have worked in good faith on co-design of the NDIS over many years. Why has the government abandoned co-design? Why can’t the government see that problems with the NDIS can be solved by an extremely knowledgeable and resourceful group of people: the disabled community of Australia.

About me I am a woman late-diagnosed with autism and ADHD in 2024. I do not access the NDIS.

I work with and am friends with people who depend on the NDIS for their very existence. In recent weeks, every disabled person I know, who is capable of doing so, has been using their limited energy to work out the most efficient way to oppose these changes in the matter of weeks they have been given to consider them.

One client of mine, who is unable to talk and who communicates through blinking and facial expressions, began to cry when I asked if he’d been hearing the news about the NDIS. You might like to be guided by him rather than Pauline Hanson’s parliamentary rhetoric.

When this policy so obviously fails disabled people, it needs to be halted before it directly causes deaths, beyond the misery it will cause (and already has caused). Aspects of this legislation have been likened to Robodebt, in terms of the clumsy and dangerous automation of human services. I liken this bill to Robodebt, in that, if the government goes ahead with it, it will be known as the policy that directly led to multiple suicides.

Submission 1933

You can’t just remove support from thousands of NDIS participants and severely cut the budgets of everyone else. Results will certainly include:

  • Further stress on a public hospital system already at breaking point (please refer to amping times)
  • A huge population of disabled people with no Federal support, no State support (THESE SERVICES DO NOT EXIST), just no support
  • Parents and unpaid carers being pushed beyond breaking point
  • Sudden, mass unemployment of disability workers who pay taxes and spend their earnings locally
  • Huge numbers of disabled people unable to leave their homes and work
  • Death by suicide and neglect.

Withdraw this bill, please.

Yours sincerely