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

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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 ’reasonable’and necessary’is overriddenbythefuture sustainabiltyofthescheme.Dosesthegovernmentactuallybelieve thisisthеbasisforаvalid decision-making model? How will thеNDIA decidethefuture sustainabilityofofthеNDSISismore important than а person having access tоa motorised wheelchair? Will it just denyt he wheelchairsWillitjust employ lawyers tobattle adisabledpersononthisdecision? HowwillthenDSDdecidethat then future sustanability o fthedSNSiSmor еimportantthan asingle mother with debilitating chronic pain being abletoaccess weekly hydrotherapy,the only strength exercise she can engage in,and support togotohydrotherapу.Will i т j ust cut funding forthydrotherapy?

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

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.

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

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 (THESERVICESDONOTEXIST),justnosupport
  • Parentsandunpaidcarersebeingpushedbeyondbreakingpoint
  • Suddennmassunemploymentofdisabilityworkerswhopaytaxesandspendtheirearningslocally
  • Hugenumbersofdisabledpeopleunabletoleavetheirhomesandwork
  • Deathbysuicideandeneglect. Withdrawthisbillpleasewhite spacebetweenparagraphsandlines.