National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3307
I am a disabled citizen of Australia with access to the NDIS, who has not yet accessed assistance for my most pressing needs. I am not writing this submission for my current self, but rather in support of the many thousands of Australians, including friends and members of my communities, for whom the proposed cuts will negatively impact the most. I have listened to many people express their valid fears and critiques since the release of the budget on 12 May
- This brief submission will discuss some key areas. I urge legislators to consider how the proposed changes would lead to human rights violations, to further injury/disability to disabled people, and to the deaths of disabled people. Not to mention unnecessarily put additional severe financial pressures on households in a time of economic stress.
Firstly, I would like to refer to Australia’s Disability Representative Organisations (DROs) united statement on 14 May 2026, which called for the Senate Inquiry into the NDIS Reform Bill to be “robust”. DROs called out the unreasonably short time frame for submissions and how this alone jeopardises the chances that this inquiry will be accessible to the community members who need to be heard from the most. The narrow timeframe doesn’t even give the DROs themselves enough time to effectively analyse the proposed complex changes. They make it clear the priority though:
“Our focus remains unchanged. The sequencing of reforms currently proposed does not demonstrate transitional safeguarding arrangements, effective system connections, or proven mainstream service capacity. Reforms that are rushed, poorly designed, or implemented before systems are demonstrably ready risk serious consequences for people with disability and the broader community.”
Secondly, I support in full the submission on the NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS forFuture Generations) Bill 2026 by Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA). They have reported to you that 67% of NDIS participants are aged 15 or under, and that the proposed changes will disproportionately impact children and young people with disability and their families or caregivers in their 34 page submission. I refer specifically to page 15 ‘Summary of CYDA’s recommendations’ which gives a brief overview of the careful recommendations they have provided for the four priority areas that impact the children they represent the most. Their submission also includes the stories and testimonies of parents and caregivers of disabled children that clearly indicate extreme concerns about the likelihood of the violation of human rights of their children, further injury/disability to their children, and possibly even death. The recommendations are clearly put forth in an effort to avoid these harms. I urge this inquiry to take heed of the warnings of CYDA and other DROs who have put forth detailed warnings and recommendations for the communities they represent in the narrow timeframe they were given.
Finally, I would like to refer to the concerns expressed by members of my disability community and networks, who are amongst those most impacted by the proposed changes. One member expressed concerns about the expansion of power that the changes will potentially give the Minister in charge to unilaterally make even more adverse changes to the NDIS. They are also of the view that the changes will entrench, through automated processes, eugenics in decision making, and I share this view. This is a serious concern to many, given what we are already
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3307
witnessing with this unprecedented proposal of cuts, the misinformation about disabled lives and welfare in relation to the NDIS in public discourse, and the lack of consultation or care taken in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the most vulnerable Australians throughout.
Another community member, in a public post on Instagram on 29 May 2026, had this to say:
“I was at a meeting yesterday about the amendments to the NDIS bill. The laws that the government is trying to pass would mean that it would be legal to have one support worker to 3 clients with higher support needs like me. I have lived it before the NDIS and it was utter torture.
Too little support, no say in who touches your body or enters your home and very littleopportunity to go out. I wasn’t so vocal at the time because I thought it was too painful for people to hear and they couldn’t do anything about it. Many humans have died because they have been put in these circumstances, but most of it is not seen by the coroner because it’s seen as natural causes. There’s nothing natural about dying too soon because you didn’t have access to a full quality of life. I deserve to LIVE!”
In closing, I do not support this Bill. I wish for my submission to remain anonymous.