National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 233 - Supplementary Submission
Subject: Urgent additional material — NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Dear Committee Secretariat,
I am writing to bring urgent additional material to the committee’s attention before the reporting date of 16 June 2026.
I made a submission to this inquiry prior to the 29 May deadline.
Since the date of my submission, significant information has come to light that is directly relevant to the committee’s examination of this bill and I respectfully ask that it be considered before the committee reports.
The Integrated Care and Commissioning Initiative Live trials are currently operating in at least six regions across Australia — including the Kimberley, Gippsland, and Central West Queensland — that strip individualised NDIS funding from disabled people, pool it with aged care money, and hand it to large regional providers as a block grant.
This is a return to the block funded model that the Disability Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability documented caused violence, abuse, neglect, and death.
The Commission made 222 recommendations specifically to prevent a return to these models.
These trials appear to have commenced without public announcement, without a published human rights assessment, and without documented evidence that participants in those trial regions gave informed consent to participating in a fundamentally different funding model to that which they accessed the NDIS under.
The Productivity Commission blueprint
In September 2025 the Productivity Commission released an interim report titled Delivering Quality Care More Efficiently. This report recommends combining disability, aged care, and veterans care under a single regulator and single set of standards, recommends collaborative commissioning giving large providers block funded regional monopolies, and recommends building an actuarial microsimulation model using linked government data to predict each individual’s lifetime cost to the budget in order to target specific groups and reduce their future drain on public funds.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 233 - Supplementary Submission
This blueprint — combined with the Integrated Care and Commissioning Initiative trials, the commissioned panel model in the bill, and the automated I- CAN planning tool — suggests a destination for these reforms that has never been disclosed to the Australian public or to this committee in the government’s stated justifications for this bill. The questions I am asking the committee to put on record before June 16 Under what legislative authority are the Integrated Care and Commissioning Initiative trials currently operating?
Was a human rights assessment conducted before these trials commenced and if so will it be tabled?
What informed consent process was used with NDIS participants in trial regions before their individualised funding was pooled with aged care money and handed to block funded providers?
Has the government accepted the Productivity Commission’s recommendation to build a lifetime cost microsimulation model for individuals accessing care and if so what decisions will that model inform?
How are these trials consistent with the Disability Royal Commission’s findings that block funded, provider-controlled care models caused violence, abuse, neglect, and death?
I am happy to provide any further information or supporting material. I can be contacted at the details below.
Yours sincerely,