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Submission 3475 — Mr Dominic Hill — NDIS Future Generations Bill

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Generations) Bill 2026

NDIS Participant Dominic Hill

06-07-2026

  1. I challenge every Member of Parliament and Senator who is considering voting in support of the Bill to confront the consequences behind their decision and experience it themselves. I request you to witness my life and consider what these changes mean to me as a person with significant disabilities.

  2. Imagine waking up to chronic thoughts of suicide after having a nightmare of an ex-partner placing your rabbit into a microwave and threatening to kill themselves if you ever leave them. I failed to protect my rabbit and she was a comfort from suicide. I was stalked, threatened with physical beatings and left homeless after being locked out. I felt defeated after being told by the local housing office that my situation was not severe enough to warrant emergency accommodation. When I was taken to hospital, I disclosed domestic violence to a nurse and was told not to contact the police – instead, I was placed back into the care of my ex-partner.

  3. The stress placed on my body causes frequent pseudoseizures where I unexpectedly collapse onto the floor, twitch and shake uncontrollably, followed by short-term amnesia. I can forget my own identity, where I am, and the few friends I have in my life. It causes them great pain from the fear that I could forget them permanently or that I might try to kill myself again.

  4. I dream these events each night and wake up reflecting on whether I take my life. It would have no consequences to me as I experience regular derealisation; if nothing feels real, I become unstoppable. I live in constant isolation. I do not have friends and struggle to create meaningful connections. I can be constantly regressed and am limited to the capabilities of a child. Who or what are my protective factors to prevent me from stepping in front of a car which risks harming myself and traumatising the public?

  5. At twenty-five, I have survived suicide sixty-three times and wonder who is willing to step into my world and walk beside me – a person with ASD-2 – to find a reason to stay alive and develop the skills to live a happier life. Not the NDIA.

    1. I have lost significant access to building my future after completing a Change of

Circumstances review. I was determined as ‘pretty functional’ on the 26-06-26 despite reports from specialists referencing the lived experience above. The decision made by the NDIA did not follow any of the specialist recommendations and reduced my ability to see my psychologist from four times a month to one. I am unable to see my occupational therapist to teach me new skills to cope as this comes from the same funding.

  1. The progress I made in my sessions taught me how to recognise early warning signs of emotional escalation, develop grounding techniques to interrupt derealisation and

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Generations) Bill 2026

NDIS Participant Dominic Hill

06-07-2026

pseudoseizures, create safety plans that actively kept me alive during crises, and slowly rebuild executive functioning skills for basic daily tasks like meal preparation and leaving the house safely. These sessions gave me tools to process layers of trauma, challenge the constant suicidal ideation, and find reasons to keep living – moments of hope and healing that made me feel like a person with potential rather than just a statistic.

  1. The progress I made from being given access to the community from a support worker has improved the management of my symptoms and reduces the crushing isolation I live with every day. I regularly refuse to leave the comfort of my room and having someone with me allows me to try new experiences which would feel inaccessible to me, such as going to

    appointments, collecting my medication, and trying new activities without being

overwhelmed. It gives a sense of safety during frequent derealisation, pseudoseizures, and moments of regression. I am able to practice new social skills I learn from my psychology sessions and the brief time from an isolated world helps me remain connected, compared to disappearing into my room for days on end contemplating suicide.

  1. The proposed changes to the definition of permanence are deeply concerning. Under the Bill, a person’s impairment may not be considered permanent unless they have tried all ‘appropriate treatment,’ even where such treatment is unaffordable or not reasonably available in their area. In practice, many people with disability face significant barriers to accessing treatment. Bulk billing for general practitioners has declined sharply, making regular medical care difficult to afford. Access to psychologists is limited to ten sessions per year under a Mental Health Care Plan, and psychologists providing these sessions are not required to prepare reports for the purposes of the NDIS. As a result, participants may be unable to obtain the very evidence the NDIA requires to demonstrate that their impairment is permanent and that they meet the disability requirements because they could not afford it. These changes would remove the only consistent support that helps me survive – managing daily suicidal ideation, safely leaving the house, reducing crushing isolation, processing trauma, and learning the skills I need as a person with Autism Level 2 to keep living.

  2. Section 33(2EA) of the Bill allows the Minister to determine, by legislative instrument, maximum amounts of funding, maximum intensity, or maximum worker-to-participant ratios for any support or class of supports for participants generally or a class of participants. This power would enable the Minister to cap my psychology and occupational therapy supports at levels far below what my specialists have recommended, directly removing the consistent professional help I need to manage daily suicidal ideation. These changes would remove the only consistent support that helps me survive – managing daily suicidal ideation, safely leaving the house, reducing crushing isolation, processing trauma, and learning the skills I need as a person with Autism Level 2 to keep living.

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Generations) Bill 2026

NDIS Participant Dominic Hill

06-07-2026

  1. Section 34A of the Bill gives the Minister the power to make a legislative instrument that reduces the funding component amount for a specified group of supports by a percentage for the purpose of ensuring the financial sustainability of the NDIS. This provision would formalise and expand on cuts that have already reduced my psychology funding from four sessions per month to one. These changes would remove the only consistent support that helps me survive – managing daily suicidal ideation, safely leaving the house, reducing crushing isolation, processing trauma, and learning the skills I need as a person with Autism Level 2 to keep living.

  2. Section 33(2EA) combined with section 34A would give the Minister broad powers to impose both percentage cuts to entire categories of supports and hard caps on funding,

    intensity, and staffing ratios. These powers would directly threaten the psychology,

occupational therapy, and support worker hours that my reports show are essential for managing my Level 2 Autism. These changes would remove the only consistent support that helps me survive – managing daily suicidal ideation, safely leaving the house, reducing crushing isolation, processing trauma, and learning the skills I need as a person with Autism Level 2 to keep living.

  1. The Bill’s new definition of Functional Capacity in Section 9B and the tightening of the disability requirements would require assessments that exclude the impact of a person’s environmental and personal circumstances. This would make it even harder for someone with my combination of severe mental health crises, trauma, and fluctuating capacity during regression to demonstrate the substantial and ongoing support needs that my specialists have documented. These changes would remove the only consistent support that helps me survive – managing daily suicidal ideation, safely leaving the house, reducing crushing isolation, processing trauma, and learning the skills I need as a person with Autism Level 2 to keep living.

  2. The changes to plan reassessment rules (section 48A) and the introduction of automatic plan renewal under section 50A would limit my ability to request reviews when funding is cut arbitrarily. This would lock in decisions like the recent reduction of my psychology sessions, leaving me with no effective pathway to restore the supports that were actively keeping me alive. These changes would remove the only consistent support that helps me survive – managing daily suicidal ideation, safely leaving the house, reducing crushing isolation, processing trauma, and learning the skills I need as a person with Autism Level 2 to keep living.

  3. The NDIS is my lifeline. It is the only form of support I have. Losing it would remove the only consistent support that helps me survive – managing daily suicidal ideation, safely

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leaving the house, reducing crushing isolation, processing trauma, and learning the skills I need as a person with Autism Level 2 to keep living.

  1. Illness does not discriminate. One day it could be you or someone you love in my position. Remember that when you vote – you are deciding the value of human lives, and whether we are worthy of support or simply a line item to be cut from a budget. The power to protect or destroy lives like mine rests in your hands.

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