National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3389
To whomever it may concern
I am deeply concerned and saddened by the proposed NDIS adjustments in this bill, and their impact on access to crucial support for an incredibly vulnerable and marginalised sector of our community. In this letter I will speak to some of the areas of the bill that cause me distress and concern to explain why I do not support it.
As somebody who has worked as a disability support provider and who provides weekly support to my 36 year old Autistic sister (who has not yet been able to access support under the NDIS scheme), I am acutely aware of the impact on disabled peoples of having to constantly jump through hoops and advocate for themselves just to receive funding and support so that they can be assisted to do very basic things most people take for granted, such as leaving the house or doing laundry. The increased administrative and compliance requirements proposed in this bill will see NDIS participants losing access to support that makes life manageable for them. Losing this support will have catastrophic mental and physical health impacts when it means participants cannot access therapy or transport to and from appointments because of not being able to keep up with excessive administrative and compliance tasks. This means if a person is not contactable (for example due to illness, mental health crisis, burnout, lack of support to manage communication, loss of access to computers/telephones, etc) that their support to function may be further removed. This is unacceptable. These conditions are cruel and unliveable.
I am also deeply concerned at the prospect of an increase in the use of automated systems in decision making within the NDIS. Decisions about support require a participant’s capacities, needs and conditions to be seen and understood with deep care, compassion and mindfulness of impact, a human service that cannot be automated sufficiently. I am also concerned at the potential decrease in nuance and flexibility with which disabled people in crisis will be treated when they are dealing with a largely automated system that cannot process urgent and acute needs regarding funding, support, etc.
Similar to my last point about the increase in automated decision making, I am concerned at the prospect of decision making and adjustments to be made to large categories of support with disregard for the impact and appropriateness of these changes to an individual’s plans. This will create the environment for vulnerable people to slip through the cracks as their crucial supports are adjusted en masse with no regard for the way it will affect individuals within these groups.
Disabled people exist within a world that is not constructed with their needs in mind, meaning that support provided to them is intrinsically woven into their capacity to exist within them. Massive deductions to funding and changes to systems of support for this community have the likely potential to be catastrophic and I am deeply disturbed at the
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3389
prospect of what this bill will bring about. I have already heard from many members of the community about the severity of impact of their mental health just knowing that basic support will likely be removed from them. People will not be able to leave their house, clean their clothes and bedding. People will be stripped of their right to live with dignity. And because of these prospects, people are suicidal. People will die without access to therapy, medical appointments, support and transport to medical appointments. I plead with the government to not pass this cruel and inhumane bill.