Disability organisations are calling for the government to abandon a plan to introduce independent assessments of people’s disability.
The plan will force all National Disability Insurance Scheme participants to explain their support needs to a stranger in less than three hours, or risk losing their NDIS funding.
Sydney woman Melanie Tran, who lives with a disability, says three hours is not enough to convey the impacts of her disability, and the change is a regression in disability rights.
"The introduction of the independent assessments almost seems like we are going backwards instead of going forwards," she said.