National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 221
My name is and myself and my son are NDIS participants. I am writing this submission because I believe the proposed bill to change the NDIS will significantly impact the quality and safety of my and my son’s life and many other NDIS participants. To only have two weeks to write a submission stops most people having time to properly prepare a submission and goes against the governments promise to have proper consultation with the disabled community. I propose that the government extends this time limit and engages in genuine consultation with interested parties by providing an appropriate time for people to properly prepare their submissions. It also concerns me greatly that there is going to be a commission of people who will sort through the submissions and decide which ones get through without clarifying what would stop a submission being accepted? As you are dealing with the disabled community and many of us have problems with communication, I find the fact that you can dismiss our submissions unconscionable. Honestly, I find every aspect of the bill deplorable, unnecessarily cruel, and ableist. I also don’t see how it is going to save money as it will only cause unnecessary advanced psychosocial and physical deterioration of participant’s conditions by removing funding that currently prevents such deterioration. The money saved will be lost on more expensive treatments needed as a direct result of removing the current help from participants kicked off the scheme or their funding cut. State programs that are yet to be established will not fill the gap, if they ever happen at all. Meanwhile, registering all providers is going to do little to stop the real exploitation of the system. Shonksters and Grifters will still be able to rip off participants funds as being registered does nothing to deter this. The problem being NDIS was set up as a profit making industry with little to no checks. Slashing participants funding and kicking them off the scheme will change none of that. I don’t believe that any of the recommendations are going to save money, as the extra staff and funding put towards assessing every single participant, when they have already been deemed as accepted onto the scheme,is a ridiculous waste of money. Tighter acceptance criteria appears to be more politically motivated than any genuine concern for helping the disabled. The spin is hard to swallow and no one in the disabled community is buying it, so your answer seems to just stop listening to them. Staying on the NDIS will now be equivalent to winning Tattslotto or The Hunger Games. Every day I see the disabled demonised in the media as unworthy bludgers who are ripping off the taxes of hard working normal people. You set about doing a deliberate media campaign to create division and hatred against your societies most vulnerable just so you could pass these horrendous laws that in the end will not achieve what you want to achieve other than moving some stats around and hoping it wins you the next election.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 221
I don’t know how my autistic son with multiple and serious mental health conditions is going to pass a questionnaire that doesn’t takes the nuances and accumulation of the comorbidities of his conditions into account and will be assessed by someone most likely not qualified to understand them either. It goes against all medical opinion to think you can separate conditions and not consider how they impact each other. How will the assessor understand that due to my son’s schizophrenia and cognitive impairment, he has no insight into his conditions and thinks he is normal and there’s nothing wrong with him. He’s going to tell the assessor that he’s capable of doing all kinds of things that he’s not. Without specialist reports taken into consideration and his diagnosis listed and explained, he like many many others will be misinterpreted by the assessor with no room on the questionnaire to account for him. He and many others conditions cannot merely be qualified by functional capacity alone. Cutting social and community participation will cause severe isolation for many disabled people. Most group activities that I have seen are inappropriate for a large section of the disabled community. They tend to be the cheapest activity the provider can find and usually aimed at only the intellectually impaired. The idea that group activities can replace the choice and control of what the participant wants or needs is very ill informed. Being able to go out and about in the community the way I want to has greatly contributed to not slipping into suicidal ideation and severe depression. To underrate its importance is highly ignorant. In summoning up, I hope the committee who decides whether this submission is worthy of being submitted has got to the end of this and not thrown it out. My faith in the NDIS and in this government has never been lower. I believe my submission is probably as useful as pissing in the wind and I expect this government will go ahead with their barbaric proposals regardless. It’s taken me a week to get my head clear enough to be able to write this and in the process it’s caused me considerable trauma and upped all my mental health conditions and also affected my physical conditions. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do it, but I have and at least I can say I’ve done my part to help the disabled community have a voice, which is more than I can say about this current Labor government!