2024 was a pivotal year for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with the most substantial changes to NDIS laws since the scheme started more than a decade ago. Our new explainer NDIS Insights 2024-25 helps you understand the most significant developments and what the changes mean for people with disability.
We explain major changes resulting from law reform, which include changes to:
- how decisions about access to the NDIS are made;
- how plans are developed and structured;
- which supports will be funded for participants; and
- NDIA powers, with a new power to compel participants to provide information.
We unpack government commitments to co-design further reforms and develop ‘foundational supports’ for people with disability outside of the NDIS.
The explainer also analyses NDIS case decisions by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Federal Court that will have ongoing influence over decision-making, and looks at how the new Administrative Review Tribunal will approach NDIS reviews. Update: NDIS Insights raises concerns about the ART ‘Publication of decisions policy’, however, the ART recently confirmed that all decisions on NDIS cases will continue to be published on AustLii for the foreseeable future.
Finally, we foreshadow what we can expect for the Scheme in 2025.
Download an accessible Word version of the report.
NDIS Insights 2024-25 was produced by the JEC’s Disability Rights team: Senior Solicitors Sheetal Balakrishnan, Erin Turner Manners and Mitchell Skipsey, and Principal Solicitor Ellen Tilbury. Thank you to Herbert Smith Freehills for the extensive pro bono support that contributed to the report.
