Submission 2123
PWDA Template: Submission to the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Attention: Committee Secretary, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs Submitted by email: community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au Date: 28 May 2026 My name is and I’m a provisional psychologist, a queer person, and a student of history. I welcome the opportunity to make a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs about the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026. I am a person with a disability that is completely unsupported by the NDIS, I am lucky enough to be in a community with disabled people, most of them underserved by the NDIS currently as it is, one of whome is in danger of dying because currently the NDIS has supports for one support worker to visit this person once a week and feed them, this is the only time they reliably eat as they cant feed themself. To be honest with you reader, this bill is eugenicist in nature and it will kill people. After a mass disabling event like the ongoing covid pandemic, historically, governments often does tend to become more fascist, you can see that quite clearly with this current Australian government but its also visible throughout history.
I want to outline the harm this Amendment Bill will cause if it passes Parliament. This Bill is too far-reaching to pass as it stands. I believe the Bill requires further scrutiny and amendment before it proceeds. This bill will kill people. This bill is eugenticist in its outcome, this bill will ruin lives. THIS IS STATE VIOLENCE.
Parliamentary Scrutiny and Transparency
The consultation period for the Amendment Bill is two weeks, which is insufficient to allow for appropriate consultation, considering accessibility and communication needs. The Australian Government Guide to Policy Impact Analysis says consultation should occur for a minimum of 30 days where possible. The short timeline impacts me by making this submission almost inaccessible to me, as someone who struggles with executive functioning and administration.
Recommendation:
Amend the consultation period for a best practice minimum of 30 days. Key decisions left to ministerial instruments, not law. Its recomended by me, a disabled person, a provisional psychologist and someone who loves people on the NDIS that the government turn away from eugenics and look towards supporting people, perhaps by taxing big business or gas exports.
The issue:
The Bill allows Ministers to change who gets NDIS support (Schedule 1 Parts 8 and 9) and how much funding people receive (Schedule 1 Part 4; Schedule 3) by signing an instrument, without going back to Parliament. The rules that will determine critical eligibility thresholds (Schedule 1 Parts 1, 8 and 9) have not yet been written.
How this affects participants:
The decisions that shape the lives of participants, whether they qualify for the NDIS and what supports they can access, could be changed without parliamentary debate or public scrutiny. Participants may not know supports or eligibility
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rules have changed until their plan is affected. My community will suffer, people will die, people who are already underserved by the NDIS are already on the verge of death and are already not getting enough care.
Recommendation: Require that all decisions affecting NDIS eligibility and funding levels be made through primary legislation subject to full parliamentary scrutiny, with mandatory advance notice to affected participants before any changes take effect. Existing participants face narrower criteria and fewer rights to challenge decisions. Ultimately the government needs to decide if it wants to support disabled people or kill them, this bill WILL KILL DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE HUNDREDS. Their blood will be on your hands. These will be murders by the state.
The issue: The Bill changes the rules for existing NDIS participants and makes it harder to challenge some decisions about supports and funding. It also restricts when you can request a reassessment, removes review rights for automatic plan renewals, and makes funding reductions unreviewable (Schedule 1 Parts 1 and 8). Combined with restrictions on reassessment requests (Part 2), automatic plan renewals without review rights (Part 5), and unreviewable funding reductions (Part 4), existing participants face narrower criteria with significantly fewer avenues to challenge decisions about their supports.
How this affects participants: This does not protect participants already on the NDIS, who could be reassessed under stricter rules. If someone’s funding is reduced or their plan renewed automatically, they may have limited or no ability to challenge that decision. This could make it harder for people to get extra support when their circumstances or disability change. Kit, the person i’m in community with has M.E, and cant feed themselves, their doctor has made multiple appeals to the NDIS to get help feeding them, as currently they only have supoports to eat once a week. Their doctor has informed the NDIS that they are currently at risk of dying from neglect, they are one of thousands currently not getting care. THIS BILL WILL KILL KIT AND THOUSANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE.
Recommendation: Require a “no harm” safeguard ensuring no current participant loses access to supports unless equivalent supports are in place, with independent review rights before any exit decision and access to unscheduled reassessments preserved. Unreviewable ministerial power to cut funding across all support categories The Minister can reduce funding for any support or group of supports by a specified percentage through an instrument that cannot be challenged (Schedule 1 Part 4). This applies across all budget categories. Unspent funds will no longer carry over at plan renewal (Schedule 1 Part 5).
How this affects participants: A participant’s community participation, capacity building or assistive technology funding could be cut without warning and without any right to appeal. Participants who save unspent funds across plan periods for high-cost items will lose that ability entirely. Kit will die, as will thousands of others who are currently not recieveing the care they need. Others will become sicker, there will be suicides, and those deaths are murders by the state.
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Recommendation:
Require that unspent funds carry over at plan renewal for participants saving for high-cost items and require independent review rights before any funding reduction takes effect.
Requirement to exhaust treatment options before eligibility
The issue: A person with disability will need to exhaust treatment options before they can be eligible for the Scheme (Schedule 1 Part 8). There will also be a removal of whole-of-person assessment, replaced by single eligible impairment consideration (Schedule 1 Part 3). The note that previously acknowledged environmental factors and other ineligible impairments could affect support needs will be removed (Schedule 1 Part 3).
How this affects participants: People with disability will need to prove their impairment cannot be treated before they access the NDIS. Once in the scheme, their supports will only be assessed against a single eligible impairment rather than their whole experience. A person’s individual circumstances will not be considered, including ability to pay for treatment, where they live or whether treatment is actually available to them.
THIS IS ABLISM. THIS IS EUGENICIST IN ITS OUTCOMES AND THIS IS COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE.
Recommendation:
Do not proceed with a requirement to exhaust “appropriate treatment” options – there are no safeguarding measures around participant harm due to side effects or complications, a participant’s financial ability to pay, or their geographic capacity to access treatments.
Unvalidated functional capacity assessment tool risks misidentifying need.
The issue:
The Bill shifts assessment from whole-of-person consideration to a single eligible impairment (Schedule 1 Part 3). Read together with the eligibility thresholds in Parts 8 and 9, the tool used to conduct functional capacity assessments must be capable of sufficiently identifying whether a person meets the threshold for that single impairment.
The named assessment tool is the Instrument for Classification and Assessment of Support Needs (I-CAN). I-CAN requires validation to ensure it will sufficiently identify the needs of all people with disability, including those whose needs may be fluctuating or episodic and may not be captured through a point-in-time assessment, and to ensure it is culturally appropriate for First Peoples with disability.
How this affects participants: If the assessment tool does not accurately capture the full extent of a person’s disability, including needs that fluctuate or vary over time, a participant may be found ineligible or have their supports undercounted, with no guarantee the result reflects their actual experience.
The people making these choices have likely never lost a loved one due to NDIS neglect, theyve likely never lost a loved one from the robodebt government state violence, theyve likely never missed multiple meals because they cant feed themselves due to M.E. Appropriate assessment isn’t garunteed currently, and it will only get worse with this bill.
Save the NDIS, fund the NDIS and save lives.
Recommendation:
do not proceed with I-CAN as the functional capacity assessment tool unless it has been demonstrably validated to identify the needs of all people with disability, including those with episodic or fluctuating disability, and demonstrated to be culturally appropriate for First Peoples with disability.
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Supports cut before replacement system is ready
The issue: From 1 October 2026, the government has announced funding for social, civic and community participation supports will be cut by 50 per cent and capacity building daily activities by 10 per cent for all participants, reductions that will be implemented through the ministerial instrument power in Schedule 1 Part 4. The Foundational Supports system intended to fill that gap has no confirmed implementation date and is not yet operational.
How this affects participants: Supports that help participants connect with their community, build skills and maintain independence may be cut before anything exists to replace them, leaving carers and families with greater responsibilities and no additional support. These supports are often what help people stay visible, connected and safe.
THIS IS STATE MURDER AND EUGENICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAVE THE NDIS!!!!!!!!!! FUND THE NDIS !!!!
Recommendation: Require that no reductions to community participation or capacity building supports take effect until Foundational Supports are fully operational, adequately funded and demonstrably able to meet the needs of those who will lose NDIS supports.