National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2626
Dear Mr Tom French MP,
I am writing to you as a local constituent from Kingsley, to share my concerns around the proposed NDIS legislative changes currently before Parliament.
I am asking you to oppose this bill and to seriously consider crossing the floor if necessary.
The commentary being shared with the greater Australian public is that the purpose of these reforms is to address the future sustainability of the NDIS, however, this is not what many disabled people, carers, families and professionals are seeing. As those with lived experience of disability and the necessary supports, we implore our elected representatives to listen to our voices and find a better way.
These changes will impact families who are already at breaking point. It will shift the recognition from medical professionals with years of experience and expertise to undertrained and inexperienced, generic assessment methods which will ensure support needs are not accurately identified and of course provided.
The NDIS is not a “funding luxury”, it is providing some of our nations most vulnerable individuals with the basic supports they need for survival, safety, regulation, communication, participation and dignity.
“The true measure of any society is based on how it treats its most vulnerable members” - as a nation that prides itself on looking after one another, how can these proposed changes encapsulate that sentiment?
Disabled people are increasingly being portrayed as financial burdens rather than human beings. Human beings who are entitled to support, inclusion and safety.
Families are being forced into impossible conversations about who is “disabled enough” to deserve support.
Meanwhile, the enormous invisible labour carried by parents, carers and especially women continues to go unrecognised.
Many disabled people only appear to be “coping” because family members are sacrificing their own health, employment, finances and wellbeing behind closed doors to keep them safe and functioning.
Removing supports does not remove disability or support needs. It simply transfers the burden onto families, hospitals, schools, emergency systems, homelessness services and unpaid carers.
I am also deeply concerned by the growing narrative that large numbers of children accessing the NDIS automatically means the Scheme is being misused.
If entire communities are showing high levels of disability, developmental delay, neurodivergence and support need, this should raise serious questions about broader systemic
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2626
failures, unmet needs, environmental pressures, diagnostic access and collapsing community supports, not assumptions that children are receiving “too much”.
Many children who appear to be coping are only doing so because families, particularly mothers, are providing extraordinary levels of unpaid labour behind the scenes.
A child appearing “fine” does not mean the support need is not real.
If Government is genuinely concerned about sustainability, then the solution is not to strip supports from disabled Australians.
The solution is:
- properly funding foundational supports
- fixing failures in health, housing and education systems
- reducing administrative waste
- addressing provider misconduct appropriately
- ensuring genuine co-design with disabled people
- creating trauma-informed, accessible planning processes I ask you to listen directly to disabled people, carers, clinicians and advocacy organisations before supporting reforms that may cause significant long-term harm.
Please oppose this bill.
Sincerely,
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