National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 2453
Please do not pass the NDIS Amendment Bill in its current form. It removes rights, reduces choice and control, and will harm people with disabilities.
I am a parent and carer of my adult daughter, who has a severe intellectual disability, physical disabilities and profound hearing loss. My daughter has been on the NDIS since 2016. She receives services for therapies, support to access the community and support to live in a group home with her complex care needs. Her funding for community access was cut by approximately 40% in her last NDIS plan in Feb 2026, with no consultation or explanation.
The 2023 independent review into the NDIS produced a roadmap of 26 recommendations and 139 specific actions with one clear-cut instruction; implement them all as a whole. This roadmap has been abandoned without explanation.
I am very worried about what will happen to the 160,000 people who will be removed from the scheme and about the funding cuts to remaining participants of the scheme. Where will these people get support. Will the hospitals, mental health systems and public housing be able to take on this support? The burden of lifetime care will fall back onto the unpaid family carers predominantly women.
The NDIS returns $2.25 to the Australian economy for every dollar spent. So cutting it does not save money. Unemployment will rise, taxation will be lost and superannuation savings won’t happen.
People with autism account for nearly four in five entrants and approximately half of all NDIS participants. The Productivity Commission, the body that designed the NDIS, identified autistic people as exactly the population the scheme was designed to serve. The claim that they were never meant to be covered is false. On what basis has the government proceeded with eligibility changes?
In March 2026 the government voted down a Senate inquiry into NDIS fraud after two years of citing fraud as justification for these cuts. The evidence has never been required to be tabled.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 2453
Please reject this Bill until foundational support is in place? Please require the government to table the downstream cost modelling for these changes? Please require an independent human rights assessment before this bill passes? Please recommend a Disability Rights Act as a precondition for further changes?
Sincerely
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