QAMH has made a submission to the Senate inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, focusing on the impacts for people living with psychosocial disability and Queensland’s community-based mental health NGO sector.
QAMH supports measures to improve the integrity and sustainability of the NDIS. However, the submission raises significant concerns about the sequencing and design of the proposed reforms. A central concern is that the Bill tightens NDIS access and reduces psychosocial supports before adequate alternatives are in place. For people living with psychosocial disability, this risks leaving them without support, not because their needs have reduced, but because the system intended to replace those supports does not yet exist.
The submission also raises concerns about proposed reductions to Social, Civic and Community Participation and Capacity Building supports, which are core supports for many people living with psychosocial disability.
Additional concerns include reassessment changes, plan suspension and revocation for participants who become temporarily uncontactable, and the use of automated decision-making for complex psychosocial disability matters. The submission also highlights potential impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants, people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, families, carers and kin, and raises broader human rights considerations.
QAMH makes nine recommendations aimed at ensuring reforms are implemented safely, are informed by genuine co-design, and do not reduce access to support before appropriate alternatives are available.
