The NDIS has introduced new powers to ban auditors and consultants after more than 200 providers were allegedly registered using false or misleading information. The case raises concerns about a system in which providers choose and pay the auditors who assess them.

The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has issued its first lifetime banning orders against a consultant and an auditor alleged to have colluded to register more than 200 providers on false or misleading information. On the back of the investigation, the Commission refused 195 registration applications and revoked a further 40. These are the first banning orders of their kind, because the power behind them is new.

The banning orders were made on 17 June 2026, permanent and nationwide, and they are the first issued under new powers to ban auditors and consultants. Until the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Act 2026 (assented 8 April 2026), the Commission could ban only providers and workers. Closing that gap is the single most significant change here; the power itself, not the two individuals, is the story.

But the two individuals are only the visible end of the problem. The matter raises a sharper question about the chain those registrations passed through, and about a structural feature of the NDIS model that made the conflict possible in the first place.

Follow the money, because it explains the rest. NDIS registration is free, but a provider cannot........

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