National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 875
Date: 27/05/2026, 22:04
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To the Commissioner of Public Sector Integrity, Permanent Secretary on Community Affairs,
I’m making a submission to you regarding the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026. I am a Support Worker working at an NDIS-registered provider and have the privilege to support participants with their everyday living, building skills, daring and living out their goals and participating in the community in a way that’s meaningful to them.
I want to express my disappointment at this amendment bill and outline the harm it will cause to our disabled community if it passes parliament. The NDIS should not be the scapegoat for the federal budget, given that the Labour government is increasing deficit spending on warpons and submaries to participate in genocide across the world. These cuts will have devastating impact on disabled people’s daily lives as well as their close circles. The bill requires further scrutiny and overall scrapping.
Firstly, the short timeframe of two weeks for a consultation period of the amendment bill is insufficient and does not take into consideration access and communication needs. Best practice is a minimum of 30 days according to the Australian Government due to mobility impacts analysis. Why isn’t this extended to something that directly affects our disabled community? Our government has a duty to make information on these changes accessible to everyone. In fact disability accessibility or organisational arrangements are working overtime to ensure these changes are best communicated and understood by disabled people and their support networks.
The bill is undemocratic and leaves unnecessary power to ministers who get to decide who receives NDIS support and how much funding people receive. Something so crucial as this to participant’s lives shouldn’t be void of parliamentary debate or public scrutiny, especially when so many removed ministers are from the lived experiences of disabled people. Mandatorily notify must be afforded to participants before their plans are affected. Their lives shouldn’t have to change at a moment’s notice due to the government’s lack of consultation.
The bill also strips existing participants of their rights to call out reduced funding or automatic plan renewal and reassessment requests. This is abhorrent, and avenges to call out someone’s life should not be made even more inaccessable.
The bill is also choosing to ignore the numbers of plans and support categories. Unspent funds will no longer carry over at plan renewal, affecting participants saving for high-cost items. The fact that a participant’s community participation, building skills or assistive technology funding could be cut without warning and without any right to appeal is unacceptable as these are vital to their livelihoods.
People trying to access the NDSI should not have to prove their impairment cannot be treated, especially when this highly depends on financial and geographic accessibility to treatment. Phighting from a whole-of-person consultation to a single eligible implication is dehumanising
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 875
Date: 27/05/2026, 22:04
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CXWWLNG 160,000 FRPM THIS VITAL FUNDIHG THAT MEANS PARTIPANTS’ CAN DO THINGS THAT ABLE-BORIDED PEOPLES TAKE FOR GRANTED IS CRUEL WHILE MAKING IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE TO ACCESS THE NDIS IS UNFAIR. CARE WILL BE PUSHED FURTHER ONTO FAMILIES AS PARTICIPANT’S LOSE FUNDING WHICH DISPROPORTIONALLY AFFECTS WOMEN. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INACCCEPTABLE, NOT TO MENTION DURING A COST OF LIVING CRISIS. THE REDUCTION IN SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN PEOPLE’S PLANS AND REQUIREMENT TO THE “INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES CUNDS” IS LAUGHABLE, WITH THE GOVERNMENT TRYING TO STICK ONE SIZE FITS ALL APPROACH. LEAVING IT UP TO ORGANISATIONS TO DECIDE WHAT SERVICES ARE OFFERED STRIPS DISABLED PEOPLE OF THE RIGHT TO LIVE THE WAY THEY WANT TO AND PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMUNITY IN A WAY THAT’S MEANINGLEFUL TO THEM. THE PARTICIPANT’S I SUPPORT BUILD COMPANIONSHIP THROUGH THEIR SUPPORT TEAM AND JOINING INTO THE COMMUNITY. IT’S SO IMPORTANT FOR THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AND IS A HUMAN RIGHT THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS NEGETIVELLY IMPACTING. PLEASE DO NOT GO ALONG WITH THIS BILl THE WAY IT IS!
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