National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2866
Submission on the NDIS Amendment Bill
Name: I am a: ✔ Disabled person ☐ Family member / supporter ☐ Clinician / worker ☐ Other: ___________________
My main concern about this Bill is: It ignores the benefits to society that disabled people and the NDIS itself provides. The tone is one that implies disabled people and our needs are a drain on society, instead of acknowledging that disabled people are a PART of society and deserve care and respect. For every $1 spent on the NDIS it returns $2.25 to the economy. This is not a drain and portraying it that way is a betrayal of election promises and cruel to disabled people.
There has also not been nearly enough time for submissions.
I disagree with reducing budgets and cutting people off the scheme. This is life and death for disabled people and to approach it purely as a budget issue reeks of eugenics.
This Bill may affect me because:
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Invisible disabilities are already poorly understood and having AI or untrained staff assess my needs with a goal to reduce costs will prevent me from accessing the supports I need to life an independent life
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Functionality fluctuates as do dynamic disabilities, if we are judged on our best day it will leave us being under cared for on our worst day
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This is robodebt all over again, my budget helps me manage my physical and mental health, cutting services and community access will leave me more isolated and at risk of injury and harm that is completely preventable and foreseeable.
One example from my experience: The last rushed law change in October 2024 already resulted in a massive cut to my budget and
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2866
supports, since then I’ve been more isolated, left the house less, eaten less and injured myself repeatedly. The call to inform me of this budget cut left me feeling like a burden the government would prefer didn’t exist. I had to deal with suicidal ideation for months afterwards which was worsened by the isolation from the budget cut.
What I want the committee to understand is: Disabled people deserve dignity, respect, choice and control of what happens to us. This law is completely counter to that. Disability is the one marginalised group you can join at any time due to injury, illness, chance, age or genetics. Most people will experience disability if they live long enough. That is something society can AND MUST support.
My position on this Bill: ☐ I support it ✔ I do not support it ☐ I have serious concerns Because: it’s cruel, disenfranchises disabled people and blames us for the costs being incurred elsewhere in the scheme that have already been identified in the two year investigation process after the last election. Providers charging so they make 20-60% profits is not the fault of participants, neither is fraud. Don’t punish us for a system that was created with loopholes for businesses to take advantage of.