National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2244
To the Community Affairs Legislation Committee, senators and other parliamentary members, This Bill must not be passed unless significant changes are made. Specifically, the proposed cuts to community participation, capacity building supports, and eligibility restrictions must be removed. Cutting up to 50% of these supports is unacceptable and will cause devastating long-term consequences for people with disability, carers, children, families, and already overwhelmed community systems. My name is [redacted]. I am a single mother to two children on the NDIS, and I am also an NDIS participant myself. Both of my children have significant disabilities and trauma histories, and our family has already experienced ongoing under-support through the NDIS system despite extensive evidence, professional recommendations, and continual advocacy. We have spent years fighting for basic supports that should never have been this difficult to access. The current system is already failing many families due to delays, lack of qualified decision-makers, excessive bureaucracy, and funding that does not reflect actual needs. These proposed cuts will make an already broken situation significantly worse. The supports targeted by this Bill are not luxuries. They are essential protective factors that keep disabled people safe, connected, regulated, functioning, and alive. Capacity building and community participation supports reduce isolation, reduce carer burnout, increase independence, support child development, and help prevent crisis situations. Removing or heavily reducing these supports will create massive knock-on effects across multiple systems, including hospitals, mental health services, child protection, education, homelessness services, and domestic violence services. as someone with professional experience in community services, youth work, education support, and families in crisis, i know firsthand that when vulnerable people do not receive adequate support, abuse, neglect, mental health decline, family breakdown, and crisis presentations increase. This is not opinion — it is consistently reflected in statistics research front line practice experience. quadrant systems are already severely under-resourced and overwhelmed. hospitals children protection disability services menta lhealth systems ar struggling now cutting supports will not save money long term; it will simply shift the cost elsewhere while causing immense human harm. i am deeply concerned about the impact these changes will have on carers many carers are already operating chronic burnout due to inadequate support I personally experience this daily further reductions funding ser vices directly worsen mental health outcomes for carers participants alike Families cannot continue absorbing failures of underfunded systems without serious consequences.I also extremely concerned message cuts send disabled Australians their lives wellbeing safety participation matter less than budget priorities Governments should balance budgets backs
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment
The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Act aims at securing future generations’ NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) through reforms.
Disabled individuals face significant challenges as corporate entities benefit from substantial financial incentives without adequate consideration towards their needs or those who provide care within communities.