NDIA Accountability Project

NDIS funding supports son’s cerebral palsy, hearing loss and ADHD

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

Submission 4031

To the Community Affairs Legislation Committee,

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

I am writing to ask you to commit to protecting the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

My son has cerebral palsy, profound, bilateral hearing loss and ADHD. Thanks to the NDIS, he is completing studies to work as an Early Childhood Educator AND represents Victoria in para football with his ultimate goal to represent Australia as a Pararoos player. ALL of his aspirations are achievable BUT ONLY with NDIS funded support.

I have witnessed real and lasting positive changes in my son’s physical, cognitive, emotional and mental health. His NDIS funding supports him to overcome systemic barriers to education and employment, increasing his safety, communication, mental health, sense of belonging, community participation and everyday support needs .

Please do not reduce his opportunity to live independently, work, pay taxes and be an active member of the Australian community.

The NDIS funds the reasonable and necessary supports that people with disability rely on to live ordinary lives. Getting out of bed. Going to work. Eating. Breathing. These are things the NDIS makes possible.

The Government has announced it will further reduce the growth of the NDIS. Reducing growth means cutting the supports people rely on to live.

If this is done by tightening eligibility and capping or restricting supports, people with disabilities lose access to what they need to live safely and participate in our communities.

These decisions will have real consequences for people.

I am asking you to:

  • Protect access to reasonable and necessary supports.

  • Rule out cuts to eligibility and plan funding.

  • Reject blanket caps that ignore individual needs.

  • Commit to genuine co-design with people with disabilities.

  • Focus reform on fixing system inefficiencies, not cutting supports.