Share on Twitter Pushing ahead with contentious reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme would perpetuate systemic racism in Australia, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. Advocates for First Nations people with disability gave evidence at a public hearing into independent assessments on Tuesday, saying the imposition of the “culturally inappropriate” assessment model on Indigenous people would cause them trauma and distress. Disability advocates have slammed the assessments as a cost-cutting move that will make it harder for people to access the NDIS, leave existing participants worse off and force vulnerable people to be assessed by strangers who don’t know their nuanced medical history.