National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2479
My connection to this issue is threefold; my experience with the NDIS, my friend’s connection to NDIS, and my community’s connection to the NDIS.
I became physically disabled in my teens and and have only recently in my twenties begun accessing medical and structural supports. Recently my doctor suggested that I look into applying to the NDIS to improve my QOL. With the proposed changes to the system, it feels like an impossible mountain to climb with my severe energy limitations. I am left without life saving supports, because of the inaccessibility of the NDIS. What a hypocrisy!
My close friend is currently a participant in the NDIS. His access to support workers who are able to help with daily living tasks and community engagement is life saving. Those support hours are very likely to be slashed from an already inadequate 6hrs/fortnight, or scrapped altogether, if this bill passes. Without them, he would have no way to access the community, and would be left to suffer without any help with cleaning, cooking, or personal care. How is a person supposed to live like that?
I have many disabled friends and community members who rely on both in home support and support to access the community. Every single person has expressed their immense fear that the introduction of the bill will leave them bedbound or homebound without any means of accessing care or the outside world. These fears are not unfounded. With such a massive number of people set to be kicked off the scheme entirely, and even more to have their funding slashed, it will either be you or someone you love who will be affected by these changes.
Personal care and community support keeps many people out of hospitals. Removing these supports will massively increase the already huge burden on australian hospitals.
The NDIS is already incredibly difficult to get access to. And I’m speaking from personal experience as someone with access to money, stable housing and good medical care. I cannot begin to imagine the difficulty that people who live hours from city centres, who are unhoused, or who don’t have the means to access adequate medical care, have in accessing the scheme as it is. Disabled people already have to jump through hoops to get life saving care. This bill is set to light those hoops on fire. People are going to die because of it.
In this world, you either die young or see yourself live long enough to become disabled. Disability in some form is inevitable. Disabled people deserve to exist irrespective of how much support each person needs to do so. Disabled people are valuable to and treasured in our communities.
If this bill passes, every single politician who let it happen will have the blood of thousands of disabled people on their hands.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2479
Thousands of people will die if this bill is passed. I urge the government to withdraw this bill immediately.