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Australians ‘uneasy’ about NDIS cuts amid $53bn in new defence spending, Mark Butler concedes

minister conceding Australians may be “uneasy” but insisting it would remain one of the best support services “anywhere in the world”. The Coalition looks likely to back the proposed changes, despite alarm from the Greens

States tell Albanese government that NDIS changes could mean people with disabilities are shifted into hospitals

overhaul of the NDIS, warning they can’t deliver “like-for-like services” for [more than 200,000 participants](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/28/ndis-document-reveals-241000-disability-participants-cut-in-four-years) expected to be shifted off the scheme by 2031. The Albanese government

New NDIS eligibility rules will cut 240,000 participants from scheme in four years, documents reveal

state-based disability supports planned for people outside the NDIS. The documents also include a line-by-line breakdown of the expected $37.8bn in savings the overhaul is designed to achieve. The proposed cuts

NDIS overhaul will ‘harm’ Australians with disabilities, government’s own committee warns

overhaul](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/budget-ndis-cuts-funding-gap-changes-strict-criteria) will cause “material harm” to Australians with disabilities, undermine its original intentions and hand unprecedented power to the health minister, the federal government’s own reform advisory committee warns. The Australian