The NDIS review

May 12, 2026

I read with great interest Peter Kent’s recommendations to reclaim the NDIS from the partial wreck it has become. The NDIS is a brilliant concept with amazing potential.

I have fundamental disagreement with Peter’s core proposal of creating a corporate body. The concept of meeting a care goal combined with a profit goal will not work in my opinion. There’s a fundamental clash and the profit seekers will win; greed wins over compassion. I can see this in the current model where the private sector provides the services. The NDIS is saturated with greed merchants. I’ve cared for my wife for the past 10 years under the NDIS model. It’s taken me 8 years to sift through numerous providers to reach a standard where the care of my wife is the core goal. My proposal is to remove the profit incentive and require government to run the services. We need a total change of cultural attitude inside the NDIA. The leadership needs to be changed and focused on care. The employees need to trained to care not worry about career promotion.