Joint Submission to the Community Affairs Legislation Committee from Australia’s Disability Representative Organisations: NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
This joint submission is made by Australia’s Disability Representative Organisations (DROs). The DRO Program is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (the Department) to represent the voices, experiences and perspectives of people with disability in policy, legislative and systemic reform processes that affect their lives.
This submission reflects shared cross-sector concerns regarding the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 and the current parliamentary process.
The following Disability Representative organisations are parties to this submission:
- Australian Autism Alliance
- Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
- Children and Young People with Disability Australia
- Community Mental Health Australia
- Disability Advocacy Network Australia
- Down Syndrome Australia Consortium
- First Peoples Disability Network Australia
- Inclusion Australia
- National Ethnic Disability Alliance
- People with Disability Australia
- Physical Disability Australia
- Women With Disabilities Australia.
This submission focuses on a series of cross-sector concerns that demonstrate why the legislation should not proceed in its current form or within the current timeframe (please download the entire submission for these details).
DROs are deeply concerned that the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 (the Bill) is being progressed in the absence of sufficient consultation, evidence, modelling, transitional safeguards and clarity regarding the broader systems on which the reforms rely.
While individual measures within the Bill may appear administrative or technical in isolation, the cumulative interaction of the proposed reforms creates significant uncertainty and risk for people with disability, particularly where changes to eligibility, assessments, planning, supports and external systems are intended to operate simultaneously.
Alternative systems or supports do not yet exist. There remains significant uncertainty about when they will be operational and the extent to which they will be accessible, affordable, culturally safe or capable of meeting need.
DROs are particularly concerned by:
- Inadequate scrutiny and meaningful consultation on the Bill;
- Lack of equitable access and robust transitional safeguards;
- Sequencing of changes and continued support;
- Insufficient evidence and economic modelling to support proposed amendments;
- Uncertainty regarding foundational and mainstream supports;
- Balance of power, accountability and transparency in new legislative instruments proposed by the Bill; and
- The potential impact of the reforms on existing Government commitments and Australia’s human rights obligations.
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