National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3375
Subject: Submission on the NDIS Amendment Bill
I am a disabled person writing to stand in solidarity with NDIS participants and disabled Australians. I do not personally access the NDIS myself, but looking at these proposed changes, this Bill is punitive and awful, more than the scheme already was.
My main concern about this Bill is it is punitive, unfair, and is being rushed through with a very tight submission timeline and without mandatory co-design with the disability community. It ignores the rule of “Nothing About Us Without Us.”
This Bill affects the disability community through the “not contactable” rule which is cruel and pauses vital support for disabled people when they are in hospital or in a crisis. The system is already too slow and bureaucratic, and these rules make it worse. Automated cuts and category-wide changes completely ignore real human needs. As a disabled person, I can see how dangerous these structural cuts are to the safety and independence of our broader community.
Properly supporting disabled people actually costs the country less money in the long term, grows the economy and is the right thing to do. You need to listen to real people, stop the administrative waste on corporate CEOs and private lawyers, and stop cutting participant plans. I do not support this bill. It treats disability care as a top-down numbers game instead of a basic human right, inclusion, accessibility and complete society.
The NDIS wastes money on top-down administration, huge executive salaries, corporate CEOs, and private lawyers to fight its own participants through exhausting appeals. It is actually amazing this got so bad and now is trying to be made worse, it is shameful, embarrassing, awful, cruel and punitive. Is this really how Australia treats disabled people? I urge the Committee to reject this Bill entirely. I do not support this bill.