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The Senate inquiry has now extended submissions to 1 June and set hearings for 9–11 June. The Bill is still moving through the House while the evidence base is being pulled into public view.

The Daily Telegraph has caught up with abilityNEWS’s analysis yesterday, reporting the Coalition’s now openly using the NDIS Bill as leverage. It’s turned disability reform into a bargaining chip over capital gains tax and negative gearing.

Data Watch: Guardian Australia’s report on departmental modelling changes the NDIS reform argument: the public figure is no longer just 160,000 fewer participants by 2030, but 241,000 existing participants expected to leave the Scheme by mid-2031.

This leaves 598,000 participants remaining, almost 350,000 fewer participants than a no-change scenario, and $13.2bn in savings expected from cuts to community participation budgets.

Bottom line: The system is moving from promise to arithmetic. Modelling now puts numbers on who leaves, who’s cut, and where savings are coming from.

NDIS Future Generations Bill continues through second reading debate

This page allows you to access transcripts of parliamentary speeches about the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026.

Parliament of Australia

Senate inquiry extends NDIS Bill submission deadline

The Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee inquiry into the NDIS Future Generations Bill has authorised an extension for submissions until Monday 1 June. Public hearings are listed for Melbourne on 9 June and Canberra on 10 and 11 June, with the committee due to report on 16 June.

Parliament of Australia

Team DSC releases Frontline podcast on choice and control

Team DSC published a new Frontline podcast episode on choice and control. The episode features people with disability discussing the distinction between choice and control and how NDIS workers can support people to direct their own lives.

Team DSC

Team DSC resource hub keeps NDIS reform explainers prominent

Team DSC’s NDIS resource hub continues to feature recent explainers on the NDIS legislation, Budget implications, access, planning, registration, fraud and governance. This remains useful background for sector readers trying to understand the reform package.

Team DSC

Coalition to use NDIS to fight Labor’s taxes

The Daily Telegraph reports the Coalition is attempting to use negotiations over Labor’s NDIS reforms to force a parliamentary inquiry into proposed capital gains tax and negative gearing changes. Publicly visible material says shadow treasurer Tim Wilson wants to use “maximum leverage”, linking the dispute to Labor’s planned NDIS savings and removal of 160,000 people from the Scheme by 2030.

Daily Telegraph | Paywall: Yes

New NDIS eligibility rules will cut 241,000 participants from scheme in four years, documents reveal

Guardian Australia reports newly released departmental modelling predicts 241,000 people who are on the NDIS before 1 January 2028 will no longer be receiving supports by mid-2031. The report says community participation cuts are expected to deliver $13.2bn of the planned savings, the largest single saving in the reform package.

Guardian Australia | Paywall: No

Australians with disabilities copped the biggest cuts in the budget. Yet conservative media’s heart bleeds for the wealthy

Guardian Australia columnist Greg Jericho argues the Budget debate has focused on tax concerns affecting wealthier Australians while paying far less attention to the NDIS cuts. The piece frames the NDIS changes as a major real-terms cut affecting people with disability, including people with Down syndrome.

Guardian Australia | Paywall: No

Inquest hears NDIS provider delayed suicide threat reports before teen's death

ABC Gold Coast reports an NDIS provider admitted it delayed reporting multiple suicide threats made by Quinn Cook before his death in 2023. The inquest is examining the teenager’s care and accommodation while under the care of support workers employed by My Gold Coast Care Group.

ABC News | Paywall: No

Quinn Cook: Suicide risk obvious, NDIS provider concedes

The Courier-Mail reports on the coronial inquest into the death of NDIS participant Quinn Cook. Publicly visible preview material says the NDIS provider conceded suicide risk was obvious, with the inquest examining care quality, accommodation and provider responses before his death.

The Courier-Mail | Paywall: Yes