There is a costed plan. They're ignoring it.

The safe way

There is a costed plan. They're ignoring it.

This is the part that makes the Bill indefensible: a safer path already exists, fully worked through, and the Government is walking past it.

The independent NDIS Review handed down a detailed, costed blueprint for reform, built around properly designed foundational supports delivered before anyone loses NDIS access, not after. The Disability Royal Commission spent years and produced hundreds of recommendations on how to keep disabled people safe, including in health settings. Together they set out how to make the scheme sustainable without abandoning people, families and the workforce.

We shouldn't be cutting support to our most vulnerable people to hit a budget number. There are other, better alternatives to keep people safe.

The choice in front of the Senate is not "cut or bankrupt the scheme". It is "cut in the dark, or implement the plan the country already paid for". A Bill that ignores its own review and royal commission to hit a budget figure cannot be made safe by amendment. It should be voted down.

Savings without cuts

Spin the wheel. The waste is not us.

Before you cut support to a single disabled person, look at where the money actually goes. Our NDIS, Our Algorithm lets you spin a wheel through the scheme's own bureaucracy spend, the money spent around the participant instead of on them: staffing, lawyers, committees, consultants, ICT.

These are the scheme's own reported figures, per year:

That is waste you can cut without taking a wheelchair, a support worker or a home off anyone. They chose to cut us instead.

Make it make sense

There is always money. Just never for us.

We are told there is no money to keep disabled people alive and supported. Then look at what this country can find money for.

Hundreds of billions for submarines that will not be in the water for decades. Hundreds of billions in tax cuts weighted to people who need it least. Billions handed to gas companies. But keeping disabled people alive is where the budget suddenly runs dry.

Make it make sense.

Their own numbers

Even their own actuaries expect more of us to die.

This is not our claim. It is in the scheme's own financial reports. The NDIS Scheme Actuary recorded that deaths among participants with the highest support needs were "considerably higher than expected," a pattern they have watched build for years, and agreed to raise the assumed death rate going forward.

Deaths among NDIS participants rose from around 1,455 in 2018 to more than 6,000 in 2023. People in Supported Independent Living are a small share of the scheme but around one in five of all participant deaths.

Politicians have one job. To make laws that keep people safe. This Bill does the opposite, on their own figures, and they are being asked to pass it anyway.