Submission 2927 — Name Withheld — NDIS Future Generations Bill

National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Submission 2927

Submission regarding The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment

(Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

I am a young person living in Naarm, Melbourne, and I care immensely about the NDIS and the support that they provide and need to keep providing to people living with disabilities.

I am  writing  this submission as  I oppose the National  Disability Insurance Scheme

Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 and the changes that are planned to be made from it.

I oppose numerous of the changes being made, but especially the change consisting of harder, more restrictive reassessment rules and the loss of individuals to review and appeal

decisions.  This change  will make  life  significantly more  difficult  for people who are

reassessed according to changed, tougher rules. Not only will it be strenuous emotionally and mentally to be confronted with the potential of being stripped of the support you need, but that potential becoming a reality will have significant physical impacts on people’s health and livelihoods. Losing support is a matter of life and death for people living with disabilities,

and the NDIS Amendment  Bill  will  directly cause harm to a huge percentage of the

population.

Furthermore, the loss of people’s rights to review and appeal decisions strips individuals of a personal say in a beyond personal matter. When it concerns an individual’s health, to forbid them from appealing decisions places the power of judgement in the hands of people who are not personally impacted by specific disabilities. I do not believe you can make that choice for a person’s own life without giving them a say in the matter.

My father, who passed away last year, was disabled both physically and mentally after a stroke over ten years ago now. Having additional support took an immense load of work off of my sister, my mother and myself, as we navigated huge changes in my father’s health. My sister and I were both only twelve at the time, and had to take on many caring duties up until his passing last year. Already, with the support we had from the NDIS in providing us with carers and additional helping services, life was difficult and hard for us. I cannot imagine what it would have been like to find out, after having received the NDIS’ help for a while, that it would be cut and we would be left to our own devices again. These changes do not just impact the lives of people with disabilities, but also the lives of their family and friends who will have to stretch themselves even further to fill in what the cuts will leave behind.

I want these amendments to change in order to broaden rather than diminish the support that individuals receive from the NDIS. I do not wish for people to lose their autonomy and voice when speaking about their own lives, their own health. I do not want members of our community who need support to have that help taken away from them and not be able to do anything about it. I want these amendments changed to help rather than restrict further.

[I do not consent to my name being published.]