NDIA Accountability Project

Concerns about reduced capacity building supports and potential regression of independence

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

Submission 4090

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

Attention: Committee Secretary, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs

Submitted by email: community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au

Date: 1 June 2026

I welcome the opportunity to make a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs about the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026.

I am an NDS participant. I am very concerned about the breadth of the changes in the drafted bill, including (and this is far from a total list) that:

  • there is a short time required to submit on a lengthy document
  • the bill includes many as-yet undefined but pivotal conditions
  • much power is granted to both the authorising minister and computer-made decisions
  • participants will have no right of appeal against those decisions
  • the amendments have been pitched to the public that disabled participants are a cost to taxpayers and do not deserve assistance to live a ‘normal’ life
  • a person with disability will need to exhaust treatment options before they can be eligible for the Scheme. This is ambiguous and places much stress / cost on potential participants
  • my capacity building supports can be automatically reduced. This support enables me to keep the mobility and independence that I have. It seems that the government would prefer me to lose that, and end up hospitalised at worse case
  • it relies on an as yet unvalidated functional capacity assessment
  • it feels like ‘Robodebt Pt 2’.

Regards, Keryn Balsdon