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Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee (part 1 of 2)

29 July 2026

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The Chair and officials set the hearing’s mandate around the NDIS Amendment Bill 2026, outlining sustainability goals, projected cost growth and National Cabinet’s 5–6% target, then detail new registration, ‘appropriate treatment’ and causation rules plus tighter oversight of higher‑risk supports and plan managers to address integrity risks and fraud.

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Opening, bill mandate and regulatory reforms

01:30

Opening, bill mandate and NDIS sustainability

01:30

Opening of hearing — bill scope and procedural rules

01:30

Department — NDIS cost trajectory and sustainability targets

06:15

Regulatory reforms — higher‑risk supports and plan management integrity

09:44

Reforms — high‑risk supports, allied health and plan managers

09:44

AFP and Commission — plan manager integrity and fraud signals

14:12

Senate scrutiny and law‑enforcement integrity evidence

18:33

Senate Q&A — SCCP cuts, access modelling and state funding

18:33

Steele‑John — workforce impacts of SCCP and capacity cuts

18:33

Steele‑John — autistic access modelling and functional capacity

25:41

Rustin — state/territory consultation, foundational supports, delays

29:53

Pocock — support determinations, SCCP 50% cut and Inclusive Communities Fund

39:51

Law‑enforcement evidence — NDIS fraud patterns and new NDIA powers

52:50

AFP & ACIC — fraud typologies and new NDIA powers

52:50

AFP/ACIC Q&A — harms to participants and scheme reputation

01:02:02

Legal and early childhood sectors on access, SCCP and foundational supports

01:24:43

NT advocates and legal sector — access rules, SCCP cuts and ADM risks

01:24:43

NT advocates & JEC & National Legal Aid — openings on NT context and bill risks

01:24:43

Legal bodies — permanence, causation test and ministerial powers

01:28:21

Pocock & Steele‑John — SCCP cuts, safety and ADM and debt risks

01:40:02

Justice and Equity Center & NLA — ADM, debts and procedural fairness

01:54:02

ND advocates — predatory providers and safeguarding failures in the NT

02:01:46

Early childhood peaks — readiness of Thriving Kids and impacts on children

02:28:20

Early childhood peaks — Thriving Kids readiness and NDIS children’s protections

02:28:20

Disability organisations, lived experience and First Nations opposition

02:45:02

Vision Australia and Deaf Australia — SCCP, interpreters and rights

02:45:02

Vision Australia & Deaf Australia — openings on SCCP, interpreters and cultural rights

02:45:02

Steele‑John & Chair — detailed impacts on blind and deaf participants

02:54:28

Lived experience panels — functional assessments, cuts and real‑world harms

04:33:06

Lived experience panel (1) — Christina, Karen and Kylie on functional tests and cuts

04:33:06

Lived experience panel (2) — Jane, Laura & Clay, and Timothy on lived harms

04:37:29

First Nations organisations — conditions for reform and cultural safety

04:44:04

Mob for Mob & FPDN — First Nations disability context and reform conditions

04:44:04

FPDN & Mob for Mob Q&A — treatment, remoteness and parental responsibility

05:48:25

Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee (part 1 of 2)

29 July 2026

Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee Thu, 30 Jul 2026 Australian Parliament

01:26 - 01:29

Speaker 90

Custom to go. Okay. Good morning.

01:29 - 03:02

Speaker 8

I declare open this hearing of the senate community affairs legislation committee's inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme amendment securing the NDIS future generations bill twenty twenty six. I begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet and pay my respects to their elders past and present.

I extend that respect to aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today. The committee will be conducting today's inquiry via video conference and in person. I am senator Ellie Whitaker, the chair of the committee, and I have with me senator Steele John and senator Pocock in the room and senators Ananda Raja, Antique, and Rustin joining us online. These are public proceedings being audio streamed live via the parliament's website, and a Hansard transcript is being made. I remind all witnesses that in giving evidence to the committee, they are protected by parliamentary privilege.

It is unlawful for anyone to threaten or disadvantage a witness on account of evidence given to a committee, and such action may be treated by the senate as a contempt. It is also a contempt to give false or misleading evidence. Witnesses also have a right to be... To request to be heard in camera. If a witness objects to answering a question, they should state the ground on which the objection is made, and the committee will determine whether it will insist on an answer having regard to the ground which is claimed.

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