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Greens secure longer inquiry into NDIS.

The Greens have secured an 8-week extension to the Senate inquiry into the NDIS Amendment Bill, delaying legislation that has faced widespread opposition from the disability community.

With Labor, the Liberals, the Nationals and One Nation currently supporting the NDIS cuts, the Bill had been widely expected to pass the parliament. However, support for the bill is waning - with the Senate yesterday spending hours debating withdrawing the bill.

Now, the inquiry into the NDIS cuts has been extended until 14 August 2026, which will delay the bill and grant more time to build pressure on both Labor and the Liberals to withdraw their support for the controversial legislation.

This extended inquiry does not preclude additional future delays to the bill, and Greens Leader, Larissa Waters, says they will put as many roadblocks in front of these cuts as are needed.

The Greens will not support the NDIS Bill. We will vote against it, and we will do everything we can to delay it and stop it entirely...These cuts were friendless in the short inquiry we’ve just had, and Parliament should listen to the strong voice of the disability community and cancel these cuts.
Greens Leader, Larissa Waters

Greens Disability spokesperson, Senator Jordon Steele-John, says the party will fight to provide greater protections for disabled people by ensuring that they cannot be forced to undergo harmful restrictive practices to gain access to the NDIS, and that any treatments required must be available in the public healthcare system.

“Labor’s cuts to the NDIS are one of the cruellest acts perpetrated on a community by an Australian government. I call on every Labor and Liberal Senator who has heard the disability community’s testimony that these cuts will upend their community and kill people: go back to your party room and tell them what you’ve heard,” he stresses

“Tell them that supporting this Bill means hundreds of thousands of disabled people across Australia and their families will lose access to…supports. The disability community is no punching bag and will not accept these cuts to balance the budget just because Labor is too scared to tax gas exports.”