National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2941
My name is and I am a disabled person who has been unable to access NDIS care due to the complexity of my disabilities, as well as a family member of someone with autism who has relied on NDIS support for years now and whose access may be cut off due to the incorrect view that adult autism is often not severe enough to require assistance.
I am most concerned about the attempt to remove funding from the NDIS and remove participants from the scheme. Participants rely on these supports and there is no infrastructure elsewhere in our healthcare and social support systems to replace it. My brother hasn’t been able to consistently work until he received NDIS support and funding to supplement other areas in his life (such as being able to access food he doesn’t need to prepare himself) and without these supports he will either have to stop work, or those supports will fall to other members of our family - all of whom experience worsening chronic health conditions and would suffer from the increased burden of providing support where previously it was funded by the NDIS.
I am also deeply concerned about the changes to appeals and review processes for those who do manage to remain on the NDIS. Changes that introduce more automation and remove capability to appeal decisions as cost-cutting measures are dangerous. To remove safeguards from a system is to allow it to not only become harmful, but it is also counterintuitive to the idea of saving money as fraudulent behaviour will be able to fall under the radar.
What I need the committee to understand is that every single person who receives NDIS support is a human being who has managed to jump through already incredibly difficult hoops to receive much-needed support (many of us are not able to get through these hoops despite having multiple complex and incurable conditions that significantly hinder us from engaging in everyday life, to be able to get NDIS support is already proving that support is well and truly needed) and to remove those supports is to materially harm those people. This Bill will cause physical, mental, psychosocial, financial, and in some cases even life-threatening harm to Australians who deserve so much better from us. I do not support this Bill, and I implore the committee to hear the voices of disabled people who are terrified of what comes next when they suffer the consequences of the government’s attempts to save money in the wrong place.