National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Submission 3986

I write in my capacity as a disabled Australian, who is not currently and does not anticipate being eligible for the NDIS in the foreseeable future. I am part of a community of disabled Australians with a vast range of experiences and needs. The common thread is that existing supports are overwhelmingly either nonexistent or accessible only via unreasonably bureaucratic and inaccessible processes.

Shrinking the NDIS budget and reducing its scope fails to recognise the crucial need and societal value of government investing in the health and livelihoods of disabled people. There are no alternatives to the supports currently provided by the NDIS. Pushing people off the NDIS onto hypothetical state-run programs will harm and kill people.

Cutting essential services to disabled people in the name of “budget issues” is morally reprehensible, especially in a budget in which spending is increased for defense, and when major corporations are still paying low to zero tax. This is a matter of priorities, and this bill reflects a step backwards away from the original promise of the NDIS’s conception.

This bill tells disabled people that their lives are disposable and that they do not deserve the same rights to access public life as non-disabled Australians. It must be rejected in full.