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

Submission 2033

My submission against The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 is as follows:

Please do not make cuts to the NDIS. These changes fundamentally affect the most vulnerable members of our communities, and do not address the issue of fraud in any capacity. These proposed changes will only cost all Australians in the long run.

The proposed changes will endanger the lives of disabled people who, under proposed changes, will have significantly reduced care, or no provided care at all. In many cases this will mean losing fundamental human dignity, and the autonomy that non disabled people take for granted.

The proposed change to social outings is an excellent political scapegoat, but losing this, in practice, will mean that people on the NDIS who have enjoyed this service will not be afforded the same right as every other Australian to access and take part in our communities. Social outing support is not just for entertainment, but for the regular everyday outings that non disabled people take so completely for granted that it is never considered, in favour of assuming that this support is all for fun, games, and wasting dollars.

Reducing funding for children is another excellent scapegoat, positing parents of disabled children as lazy or trying to get out of what the government considers ‘reasonable’ family duties. When in reality the changes proposed will mean that families will have less time to garner paid employment and may have to drop out of work altogether in order to take up the slack of the support their child needs but has lost. This will put further strain on a multitude of social supports and community services.

The NDIS does need a better and more supportive framework to ensure that participants are being treated fairly and humanely, and they can continue to live their autonomous lives. But these proposals will only make the lives of disabled Australians even harder than they already are in an incredibly ableist society.