478 Australian families on the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Bill 2026

“That NDIS cuts are increasing a rising danger of physical safety in our family. I am in danger of being killed or seriously Injured by my child due to decreased NDIS funding”

“Investing in a strong NDIS also has flow-on a benefit to all Australians – for every dollar spent on the NDIS, the scheme delivers $2.25 back into Australian communities.”

“Early intervention via NDIS had helped my tween stay in contact with her peers socially and physically despite her disabilities and without continued support she will lose all of this progress and I fear will not remain in mainstream education”

“You are seriously impacting social cohesion and creating serious future economic implications.”

“Real people with real lives will be drastically affected by these changes. If you need more money in your budget, tax billionaires and corporations more appropriately.”

“Ndis participants and their families are people, not scape goats, not burdens, not villians. People that deserve to be treated with dignity by a system that is supposed to provide support. Not make it harder to live.”

“Disability is not a choice. Ensuring equal access and supported access to community and society should be available to all including disabled people.”

“Build the lifeboats before sending people overboard. Services have been severely underfunded for a decade due to private companies due to snapping up NDIS money.. any gaps in adequate intervention or family support will have long-lasting impacts.”

“I am a late diagnosed mum at 26. I didn’t ask to be born autistic and yet I am and I fight for support for myself because my parents didn’t and I now fight for my kids. Autistic people aren’t going anywhere so stop making them suffer.”

“Child in autistic burnout & can't go to school/leave house. I'm a low-income single parent; had to reduce work. Too scared to apply for a support worker in case her plan was cut. We should be able to ask for help w/o fear of losing what little we have.”

“It is unfair and unAustralian to expect the burden and cost of care to shift to parents and carers.”

“I have a non disabled child as well as a disabled one. The workload associated with the disabled child is exponentially more than what the non-disabled child required at the same age.”

“The NDIS has been life changing for us. We've gone from every hour of every day being a complete war zone to 3-5 episodes a day. This is a huge improvement. We've been able to access specialist support that we simply could not afford without the NDIS”

“extensive knowledge of the system due to my previous employment in public health allied health assisting with NDIS goal setting & planning for supports & funding as part of multidisciplinary team of medical, nursing, speech pathology, ot, physiothera”

“Each person is an individual. You need to look at each case individually and not treat everyone as needing the same level of funding.”

“Autism is a lifelong disability. Autistics will die without support.”

“Who will be held accountable when people die as a result of this bill?”

“We haven’t been meaningfully consulted, and none of us want this.”

“I'd love to tell my story to media but don't know how especially when I want me de identified to protect my child's privacy”

“We are already at our limit. Without support it would feel impossible.”

“Families with children with disabilities are stretched financially. Have more medical needs and less ability to work. Supporting families and people with disabilities adds money to the economy rather than trapping people in a poverty society.”

“save money by not defending ndis c**p decisions that get overturned at tribunal - save money by paying parent well for caring ($32k for Centrelink) - rather than SIL $400k+!”

“Every day is already a nightmare. I’ll need to relinquish my children if politicians strip the NDIS back any further. And if I have to do that, there’s not much point in carrying on, is there? These children deserve human rights. Their mother does too.”

“It is *essential* that whatever changes are made to the ndis the changes include measuring and *publicly* reporting 6 monthly or more often on how many disabled people have died, for both participants and people forced into other programs.”