National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2401
The proposed changes bill are overwhelming i am struggling in many ways to comprehend why the impact will be to people with Disability not the providers who have I’m most cases put their profits and themselves above their duty as systems of care. I have been fortunate to have a brilliant care team.
As someone who has experienced complex mental health from early childhood, through receiving ECT, CBT treatments, High doses of mood stabiliser and antipsychotic medications, well-being support from the age of adolescence, it’s through the NDIS that I have finally begun to find equity and a life worthwhile.
I can’t imagine I would honestly be here making this statement without a holistic approach to my health and wellbeing. Having my support need met means I’m not being penalised for my barriers to accessing the community, with the proposed bill changes with 50% cuts to social participation funding means am at larger risk of marginalisation than most, though the likelihood of risk of racial discrimination, ableism, sexism, ageism and the enduring effects of being a surviving victim of crime. These are discriminatory factors I am required to navigate on the daily along with severe complex mental health sensitivities and impairments.
This Bill threatens to homogonies my Lifelong Disability though placing its sole focus ‘fixing’ impairments such as paranoia, anxiety, delusions depression although there is no cure. Rather than acknowledging my integrity and focusing harm reduction. This Bill also threatens to undermine any little sense of health, well-being, agency, societal contribution that I have attributed through the NDIS with the support of my care team.
I fear that the delegation of proposed “block funding “to therapeutic organizations such as Occupational Therapists and privatised providers to regulate access to the services that often have a stronger focus on administration, meeting government quotas to line their pockets and are ususally the culprits who abuse the system. It’s the long-standing medical specialists who safeguard my medical records, support workers and care teams that treat me with the dignity and support I need to survive day to day. I believe the Bill should be shifting the focus towards the dignity and self determination of people with or who identify as D/deaf D/disabled or Neurodivergent and holding to account the big businesses that stand to hold rank and profiteer over the barriers to our needs.
Less choice in who people can choose as support workers and staff as an aging disabled woman of colour I face inherent social exclusionary factors. Ensuring that I can choose culturally appropriate care staff is important. I currently have the agency to choose my own privately registered bicultural support person, cleaning service, Private Psychologist whom I couldn’t afford outside of the NDIS, 1:1 mentoring because it gives me capacity to learn
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2401
and be supported with employment opportunities in a safe and healthy environment away from triggering impairments embedded with institutional trauma, racism and abuse. These sorts of experiences I wouldn’t wish upon anybody… as Imaginable I especially dread placing these experiences and expectations and pressures on my family and friends I have been there and its one sure way to fracture healthy bonds. With someone such as myself with complex needs that aren’t always visible my impairments are easily misconstrued because they have a continuous fluctuating nature. Taking away my community and civic participation support means there is a higher risk of isolation, which also magnify my chance of relapse, and or further medical decline and illnesses. With the demand on psychiatric wards and the reframe from hospital in patient services being handed over to GP’s, I fear that this proposed bill will do much of the same with handing over the duty of care over to systematic non-medical fields and therapeutic practitioners or risk of falling between the cracks.
Automated assessment with no appeal is profoundly unjust, NDIA assessment processes are automated with limited appeal. Planning decisions are now based on a structured Support Needs Assessment (SNA) and standardized budget methods. The appeal process involves two main stages: an Internal Review by the NDIA and an External Review by the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART). Proposed changes directly contradict recommendations in the Royal commission into abuse of PWD. Which argued for more choice, more agency, more control by Disabled people