National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 54
The proposed document stating it assists the NDIS for the future is a farse, and rather seems an excuse to purposefully strip as much funding away from people with a disability as possible in order to save pennies in a budget (to funnel to defence no doubt- why not make further disabilities at home and abroad?)
I should include that I speak as a trained allied health professional as a mental health counsellor and am a former support worker who has worked directly with the people you are impacting. This is someone who has worked with numerous forms of disabilities and see how lack of supports can impact people.
I would also like to add that there are certainly issues with the way the NDIS functions, namely because it functions as insurance! Allowing random rarely audited companies to send invoices rather than having care be directly state funded was always going to end up in exploitation, namely from these massive suspicious shell corporations.
It seems that the solution of obvious fraud from notable large companies however has allowed said companies to get off scot free and instead place all burden on the people with disabilities being exploited by them in the first place. This is a nonsensical response.
Of particular note, there are several disturbing factors including in this bill:
1) Only the consideration of one primary disability: this is not how disability works, often people can have several and these interact with one another to exacerbate conditions and make them all harder to treat. Ignoring this and acting like having a primary disability for the NDIS to work with should be the default for everyone with no individualised care is simply based in burecratic ease rather than what helps people. 2) The lack of environment assistance: mobility aids are expensive and are a necessity for a huge amount of people with a disability to function. Not including this nor home modification is legitimately baffling. 3) Lack of inclusion for those who have had compensation from Workers Compensation or a motor vehicle accident: I am sorry to say these are still disabling events, even if some of the care at the time was paid for- does that make a real difference if long term physiotherapy is needed after a miniscule amount is paid out from our equally broken workers comp system?
I would also like to point out several issues from statements such as pointing children with autism to other schemes for help: where are they? They don’t exist. When you take people off the scheme there needs to be a clear route forwards not literally nothing.
This kind of “care” is exactly how you are going to further exacerbate issues in our hospitals and in housing. These crises are intertwined and made worse by these policies, we already need more funding into hospitals, primary, and preventative care clinics to ease burden, but instead you want to take more and more people off the NDIS supports who will likely end up in hopsital?
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 54
This also of course ignores the lack of public housing accessibility! We need more build to house those who need help!
If- we had a robust housing and health system with plenty of bulk billing health and allied health supports everywhere with clear regimes and supports, as well as excellent workers comp in favour of those injured, maybe some of these might make sense.
But that is not the reality we live in: in this reality you are going to see an increase in suicide related deaths, homelessness of disabled people, and in lack of hospital beds with no alternative space for people with long term disability.
You have blood on your hands. I hope the saved money was worth it.