National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025

The majority voted against an amendment to the usual second reading motion, which is "that the bill be read a second time" (parliamentary jargon for agreeing with the main idea of the bill). In other words, they voted to leave the usual second reading motion unchanged and not at the words below.

Amendment text

At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate notes that:

(a) the Government and the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) have been unable to clearly quantify the scale of fraud within the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS);

(b) the NDIA Fraud Fusion Taskforce estimates that up to 10 per cent of NDIS claims are inappropriate, mischievous or outright criminal;

(c) the Government must do more to prevent the fraud and rorting that is rife within the NDIS;

(d) the changes in the bill will do little to remove bad actors from defrauding participants and taxpayers;

(e) the changes in the bill provide no direct regulation or fraud controls for the 94 per cent of NDIS providers who are not registered; and

(f) robust integrity systems are critical to not only protect taxpayer funds but also to protect NDIS participants from exploitation by unscrupulous providers".