National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3155
A Submission on the NDIS amendment bill publish but withhold name please) I am a disabled person who is currently on the NDIS and I ask the Government to withdraw this bill. My main concerns about the bill is that it will be harmful to disabled people and will cause severe harm even loss of life. It will create a system where people are sacrificed to fulfill arbitrary revenue goals (that could easily be sourced from other areas).
1)The support of the NDIS has enabled : me to stay out of hospital for long periods of time as it was the case previously. Therefore it has saved both cost of hospitals stays and taking up much-needed space within the hospital system. 2 It has improved the quality of my life from being totally bedbound to being able to participate in the community albeit in a very limited way. These small gains in capacity have been hard won. The changes in the bill (the 50% cut in community & social participation ) would mean I would have less access to the community which would be extremely bad for my health both physically and mentally. A cut or withdrawal of these services would see me back slide back into being completely bedbound and reliant on a hospital care.
The Choice and control of support workers ie self management is particularly important to me as I live in a regional area. Independent support workers i.e. people who and Abn are best suited for me and my specific needs. They also have the flexibility and personal care that Big companies don’t. It also provides much needed jobs for the regional community especially for single parents etc. And has enriched and bought the community together. The economic boost is especially important for regional areas having suffered the consequences of fires & floods as every dollar spent on NDIS creates $2.25 in value to the Australian economy.
I’m also horrified at the lack of human oversight in favour of a tick box computer system being in charge of the most vulnerable in our community. I strongly endorse a whole of person approach which is missing in this legislation. Each disabled person is different and has different needs and different family circumstance. The proposed legislation would see many people who don’t have family fall through the cracks and poverty and homelessness. Similarly I am horrified by automated algorithms and the lack of being able to question decisions without any real appeal mechanism. These computer ‘decisions’ would have been made without full information or thought for the individual involved who would be harmed by the outcome.
The rule that if someone is not contactable they get kicked off really not understanding the situation of many disabled people. Personally I am often bedbound for weeks on end and not able to view screens or to view or respond to emails hence snail mail is my preferred mode of communication. but even mixups can happen with snail mail. As many on the DSP in the private rental market living in regional Australia I have struggled to find stable housing. The current rent for a bedsit in my region is currently $500 per week - nearly the entire DSP pension! Being on the brink of falling into homelessness make this contact rule even more unrealistic & lacking in understanding as a person without housing who is equally, if not more, in need of support. Something this bill doesn’t seem to understand.
There is much more I wanted to address but don’t have time to include. My concerns include; -The minister’s new power to cut funding without appeal. This robs disabled people of even a appeal process -The new functional capacity test and reassessment for everyone which will cause a lot of stress in the community and will create waste as people have already gone through the onerous process only to be told the goal posts have moved again and they have to yet again justify their disability& worthiness of support. -The appropriate treatments test for permanence which sounds sketchy at best
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3155
-the 50% cut to community and social participation will take away a lifeline on which many depend. This is used for medical & hospital appointments which are inaccessible to many people with disabilities,Especially in regional areas.
There is much more I would like to say but the practical limitations of my disability has not allowed me to write down in such a short time frame. I would like to lodge my strong complaint about the short amount of time of only 2 weeks we have had to comment on this legislation. I realise this has been extended by two working days but but it is still a woefully inadequate timeframe to allow this community (and the wider community )to digest, understand & craft response to 100 pages of legislation.
The whole programme of the NDIS could be streamlined & be more value for money if more people with disabilities had a real say in the construction of these systems. Apologies if this is not as refined as I’d like. I simply didn’t have to time to put in a full submission but wanted to contribute.