Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee (part 2 of 2)
10 June 2026
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Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 01:58
Speaker 1
The homes during the day and participate in the community. If those supports are cut, their capacity to access the community will reduce. They'll be forced to spend more time, within the group home. And we know, from our experience and we've heard from the evidence, the Disability Royal Commission, from people who've lived in those settings, what that can mean for people's, levels of frustration, their mental health and well-being, their dignity, and their, human rights to access things that we take for granted in the community. They...
Those limitations will undoubtedly impact on their well-being. It will also impact upon their safety, within the home because we know, unfortunately, that there is, you know, conflict in those settings between people who are confined to, limited physical spaces, and, that applies between residents, but also applies between residents and carers. And, you know, therein lies some of our concerns for the safety of residents and staff, and they are a direct consequence, of the proposed, cuts to social and community participation. I know residents who every single day of the week will leave that house and enjoy, activities in the community, and I know how they feel when they're... That aspect of their plans run out and they're limited to staying in the house all day.
I I see the impact on them, and I hear that directly from them. There are other concerns, I think, about safety related to assumptions made in the bill about people's, access to other treatments, by which I think I meant health systems. And the theoretical access to health systems or other supports in the bill does not represent actual access to health systems. And, therefore, I think some of the consequences of provisions in the bill will be that they are miss out on NDIS supports but are unable to access the supports that were taken for granted in making that decision.
01:58 - 02:06
Speaker 15
So do you mean... Just to clarify that, do you mean that their access to other treatments would be because they haven't got the the support to get to those, or is it... So it's that being a company
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