National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 876
I’m deeply disappointed to see that our Labour government is planning to cut billions from the NDIS and make it much more difficult for chronically ill people to access its benefits. The Labour Party has always stood for the value of healthcare as a human right. That value has been expressed through a long history of protecting Australian’s right to healthcare through policies such as Medicare, the PBS, and most recently the NDIS. As a Labour voter, I am horrified to see the Labour Partt betraying its values with this bill.
These changes to the NDIS will take away billions of dollars from vulnerable sick people. The hardest hit will be those who need it most: people suffering from chronic illnesses, who are in and out of hospital, being sent from one doctor to another and never even having the comfort of knowing that they will get better. The proposed changes to the NDIS will force them to prove that they have exhausted every ‘possible’ treatment before they can receive coverage nevermind if the treatment will not help them or is not available where they live. Furthermore, having the NDIS to support them is necessary for chronically ill people to even get the chance to go to dozens of doctors appointments so that they can try every “possible” treatment in the first place. This amendment is hypocritical and a greedy money-saving measure that betrays the values of the Labour Party.