National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 2305
NDIS
NDIS is a promise of dignity. And if these changes are approved that promise will be broken. And not just that; Lives will be broken and lost too.
People with high needs have individual needs and deserve individually adjusted assistance. Placing 3 otherwise unrelated people in a permanent COVID lock-down like situation for “convenience” or “cost cutting” says the government sees them as undeserving of dignity, self determination and right to bodily autonomy.
People with disabilities deserve the right to have a life not just to survive and these cuts will make that impossible to achieve. The government knows that and is making a policy decision to deprive people of dignity. It’s either that or taxing gas companies- the priorities are clear and obvious to the citizens of this country. Women especially.
Women make up the vast majority of carers in homes across this country and indeed around the world. And it is women who take up roles in support work, work that these cuts will see vanish from the job market. It’s a double whammy: some women will loose employment as carers and some will have to give up paid work to become carers because NDIS will no longer cover the needs of their families.
If this government is such a nigh supporter of women, why is it hitting them the hardest?
I oppose the changes to the NDIS, I oppose the funding cuts and automatisation of assessments. I’m against large language models making decisions for administrators to cancel or approve anyone’s funding as it is immoral and unethical to allow governance to be outsourced to a machine. A machine that can’t be held accountable. Stop the cuts!