NDIS Bill Got It Wrong

On 19 August 2026, the NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 passed Parliament and is now awaiting Royal Assent. The Senate approved it 28 votes to 12, after the government released 63 amendments just hours before the vote, with the Coalition voting alongside Labor. The Senate inquiry into the bill received more than 4,000 submissions. The bill tightens who qualifies as having a "permanent" disability, and gives the Minister a new power to cut funding for whole categories of support — including social, civic and community participation — with those cuts starting from 1 October 2026. A late amendment lets some participants appeal ministerial funding decisions, but community and social participation funding was specifically carved out of that appeal right. Government modelling expects around 240,000 people to leave the scheme by 2031, with another 110,000 never able to access it. Many people on the NDIS don't feel heard in any of this. Thousands made submissions; the final shape of the bill was settled in a closed-door deal between Labor and the Coalition, with the detail of 63 amendments released only hours before the vote. Your letter tells your MP that "sustainability" cannot mean cutting the people the scheme exists for out of the conversation — and asks them to hold the government to the safeguards it promised.