BOMBSHELL: NDIA DOES NOT READ REPORTS

I have been thinking about the NDIA CEO bombshell admission at Senate Estimates yesterday (27 February 2025) that the NDIA does not read reports. And I am deeply bothered by this, as all Australians should be. Together with many people in the community, I have been calling this for almost a decade, with family impacted by the most egregious harm caused by these defective systems, and practices of lost documents and reports not being read.

The consequences of this are life threatening.

I will never stop calling this out until there is a Royal Commission initiated: the campaign for a Royal Commission Class Action into RoboNDIS is now on after burner.

As an insider I have written Submissions to Senate and Parliamentary Inquiries, so that I can be covered by Parliamentary Privilege. And yet, with other brave advocates, I have been vilified - called a keyboard warrior, a trouble maker and extremist. I have had people in the industry contact me suggesting I tone down my commentary. In fact a so-called tech industry leader phoned me and called me autistic for my outspoken criticism and advocacy. Did someone put you up to this, I asked. Gutless.

I will remind everyone, that to be silent is to be complicit.

Step back and look closely at this admission. It is an admission of defective administration, from which there can be no other outcome but harm.

2023 Committee bombshell: NDIA operating unlawfully

As a reminder, in 2023, the JSCNDIS found that the NDIS has been operating UNLAWFULLY for a DECADE - through the NDIA’s construction of the fiction of ‘primary disability’. The JSCNDIS found that the fiction of ‘primary disability’ was inconsistent with the legislation, discriminatory, and created by the NDIA as an administrative convenience.

Read my article about that bombshell.

https://www.innovationaus.com/committee-bombshell-ndia-has-been-operating-unlawfully/

2025 Bombshell Admission 'We Don't Read' at Senate Estimates

Well it looks like the admission at Senate Estimates is another construct of ‘administrative convenience’ - gosh, we can’t read all these reports, so we don’t. How many hundreds of millions of dollars has been spent on reports that don’t get read? I certainly hope the ANAO Audit on the performance of the NDIA Board, due in April, asks the probing questions - what did the Board know about this and what did they do?

There is knowledge in the bureaucracy and Parliament of these systemic defects. What has not been explained is, on what legislative basis do reports NOT GET READ - on whose authority - and then in full knowledge that reports are not read, what swiftly follows is the generation of Robo plans. Bugger people’s needs, and the risks. This is an admission that the NDIS legislation has been systematically ignored. Again, what is the Board’s knowledge of this?

But there is way more to this ‘admission’. What hasn't been admitted, is that reports and other documents get LOST. Can't read wot’s not there. This ‘admission’ is a massive deflection from bigger and far more serious problems. That is, the loss of documents and loss of data: symptoms of intractable systemic defects and unstable systems.

I do not believe that the NDIA is capable of operating lawfully. The systems are fundamentally broken.

Misfeasance and Defective Systems

There is a LOT more to be examined about the unconstrained unlawful use of defective opaque algorithms by the NDIA. For scholars and interested legal folk, read this:

‘Decoding the algorithmic operations of Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme.’

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajs4.342

The loss of the documents and the not reading of reports, directly leads to refusals, reviews and harm - triggering lengthly and costly hunger game review processes to re-instate the funding that was algorithmically and unlawfully stopped. The cessation of funding causes harm, that we know has resulted in death and suicide.

Isn't this the definition of Malfeasance?

The Almighty NDIS RFT Needs Assessment Tool

Then there’s the NDIS RFT for the almighty ‘Needs Assessment Tool’.

The Needs Assessment tool is intended to cement over these defective unstable NDIS systems where documents get lost and therefore never read. The NDIS will not need these reports - or at least, the same type of reports. Ta da. The NDIS systems get re-set to ground zero, without any acknowledgement or accountability regarding the harm suffered under the defective systems.

A Royal Commission Class Action into RoboNDIS will crack this cement rendering of the NDIS wide open.

Against this week’s Senate Estimates bombshell, my recent LinkedIn article on the NDIS RFT for the Needs Assessment Tool - aka the master RoboNDIS - is uncomfortably prescient.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ndis-rft-answered-marie-johnson-gaicd-unowe

Oh, and watch out for all sorts of tender responses that offer ‘AI Agents’ as the cure all for defective unstable systems and rogue algorithms.