National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 235 - Supplementary Submission
Submission to Senate Committee enquiry into NDIS Amendment bill 2026
I am the parent and nominee for my son who is in his forties and who has intellectual disability. I am very concerned about a number of aspects of the bill and beg you to consider the devastating impacts that this would have on people with disabilities. I fear this bill will send us back to the days of institutional care, congregate living and people with disabilities locked away in their homes or institutions. Individual Choice and Control was at the heart of NDIS, and it seems that will be gone – replaced by “commissioning”-aka block funding, group living and “activities” and very limited access to the community. The promise of NDIS will be replaced by questionable systems already discredited.
Chief among my concerns are:
• The minister will have the power to remove types of support and/or cohorts from NDIS. • The minister can set the price guide and place a cap on supports. • Reduction of funding for Social, Civic and Community Participation – my son requires support to access doctor, hospital, dentist and other allied health services he may require, including those not funded by NDIS. He needs help with shopping, banking and most aspects of being a member of the community that we able bodied people take for granted. • Cutting 1:1 support in favour of 1:3 support. This will reduce participant’s choice and control, dignity and independence. My son had 2 placements in SIL, they were lonely and isolating experiences where he spent most of his time alone playing on his PlayStation in the garage. He was left with severe anxiety and depression and total lack of trust which took almost 5 years of counselling to recover. Not once did he leave the house for any sort of social activity unless his parents took him. Often, he did not know names of support workers because of high staff turnover. The house was more a workplace for staff than a home for residents. • Lack of third-party review of decisions, successful challenges in ART show poor planning skills already in NDIS. • Plans developed using an algorithm without recourse to proper scrutiny and third party review- use of algorithm has already been shown to have been a failure in the aged care system. • Plans may be altered and end dates changed all without access to review.
There are many excellent people working with people with disabilities, all paying taxes and contributing to Australian society. Many will lose their jobs.
Why is financial support of mining and other Australian and international companies more important than supporting citizens? We are left trying to understand why our lives do not deserve support. Is it because we are just too expensive?
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 235 - Supplementary Submission
I am 79 my husband is 83 and we may soon be unable to provide informal support for our son. We need to be assured of his future safety, these Amendments to NDIS will risk his safety.
Please vote against the bill in the current form. There must be checks and balances, transparency and parliamentary oversight of decisions made. Too much power in the hands of anyone is dangerous.
Participants should not be punished for the perceived rorts and fraud happening in the system. We don’t ban cars because there are car crashes.
Disability can happen to anyone at any time.
Australia deserves better.
Yours sincerely