National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2239
Dear Committee and decision makers,
My name is , a proud Australian that was lucky to be born and raised in this great country, as well as being a proud Aussie, I’m a mother of two, an advocate, a carer and also your constituent.
My daughter and son are both Aussies and we are also a proud neurodiverse family. My children are registered participants of the NDIS, kindly accept this submission towards the senate inquiry into the new NDIS bill.
I ask that we start to work together and work to find practical solutions, instead of resulting in devastating shortcuts.
These cuts being proposed and the way it’s being structured, forces individuals like us with disabilities into an incredibly dehumanizing position.
It fosters a mentality where we are forced to compare ourselves to one another, creating an unethical hierarchy to decide who is ‘disabled enough’ or who ‘warrants’ support more than someone else.
Human beings are all individuals, disabled or not, and daily needs should not be dismissed just because they do not fit neatly into rigid, arbitrary criteria.
To treat human dignity and essential survival supports as things to be rationed through a competitive checklist is fundamentally inhumane.
As constituents, we are not just numbers on a budget spreadsheet or a burden to be managed, we are active, vital, and contributing members of our Australian society.
We are all Australians,
These cuts are un-Australian!
These proposed cuts threaten our ability to live independently and participate in our communities, and they ignore our fundamental rights as citizens.
This personally means, my 10-year-old intellectually disabled daughter, who holds the mindset of a 2-year-old, cannot leave the house as a free citizen that most take advantage of everyday.
Not only does she have the right to be able to engage with others in her community safely, but cuts to her support worker also means she’s at risk of walking into oncoming traffic.
The cuts, cut the support worker supervising her to make sure she uses the public toilet safely, to not expose herself and self-guards her when she attempts to lift her own skirt as a 10-year-old.
These cuts to social and community support will not only isolate and imprison her, but these cuts will most certainly endanger her safety both physically and socially. As neurodiverse
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2239
Individuals are one of the most vulnerable citizens in Australia. It’s a duty of care! To care and protect our vulnerable. The Australian way.
Unfortunately, for myself and my small family of three we do not have an external support system, I am alone and I look towards the Australian government and the NDIS to be my partner in self-guarding and protecting these two Australian citizens. Both of my children require one on one support as my son is autistic. I simply cannot duplicate myself.
This has meant for the past three emergency room visits for myself they have had to lay in the same tiny emergency hospital bed with me. We have no other support.
WE must recognise and develop the NDIS as a national treasure, something we should, and could be all proud of.
Working together within all departments to find the solutions and oversight to empower the scheme, accounting for all citizens, dear decision makers, these cuts are not the answer!
The cuts indicate a government mindset of segregation, discrimination, and acts from the dark ages of “let’s just get rid of them or literally send them back to the asylum”.
Cuts to capacity building support goes against every professional’s recommendation, within every study of early intervention and invention. The therapies were providing the skills set to essentially help an individual adapt and the opportunity for each individual to become the best version of themselves is the opportunity a proud government should foster for its people.
Limitations, reductions and cuts to services, providers and therapies when dealing with life- long diagnosis, disorders and disabilities is like saying, you can only be disabled for half the day (absurd) and will only hinder our Australian future.
These cuts and the band aid solutions such as the “thriving kids scheme” are all capped. My apologies but lifelong means that! lifelong 24/7, so all CAPPED solutions are simply SHORTCUTS! There is simply nothing out there in Australia to support lifelong disabilities.
I kindly remind you all, that all Australians, from all abilities, are vital contributors to our Australian society.
Can we walk the same path together towards meeting the challenges ahead honouring equality for all.
In Solidarity,