National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 900
My name is and today I am writing as a current participant in the NDIS to address the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
I have been helped tremendously by the NDIS, I have been able to go outside and participate in society where as before I could not, I have been able to save money on constant psychologist appoints to address my mental health.
I am scared and worried, I am worried that with these changes I will lose access to my supports, access to participate in the world that I currently have, Minister Butler has said that the NDIS was never intended to replace health, rehabilitation and treatment services yet at the National Press Club in April he has acknowledged that mainstream services had collapsed and families had no where else to turn to, and that all previous governments have failed them.
The NDIS has stepped in to help these families, and now the solution appears to be use the failure of the previous services as justification for restricting NDIS access even further, while those services have had no changes with no plan to fix them.
I would like to know what you are going to do when people who are currently on the NDIS have their plans slashed, or worse are removed entirely, when their mental health collapses, and end up having to go to hospital because they’ve had panic attack, attempted suicide, or hurt themselves or someone else because they have no hope left, because of a government that has abandoned them.
This bill is just moving money and not saving it, costs will rise because they will forced into these other systems that have already “failed them” the bill also does not address that the NDIS actively spends upwards of $60 million a year on private law firms to defend National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIA) decisions at the Administrative Review Tribunal, which is loses 80 percent of the time.
This may be because former NDIS CEO Rebecca Falkingham has admitted during a Senate Estimates hearing that NDIA decision makers do not have the time to even read the reports of the participants, these massive reports are required by the NDIS and yet they cannot even read them.
I would like you to tell participants and others Australians why you are gutting a system that has helped so many people, without looking at the rampant fraud and constant wastes of money the NDIS currently commits itself, without any plan to increase funding or make it easier to access other services,
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 900
if this bill is passed, this government will just become like the previous ones that as the Minister has said, has failed us.