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Zac de Silva and Lucinda Garbutt-Young

'Blood on your hands': disability reforms blasted

Advocates have aired concerns about the government's proposed NDIS changes at a senate inquiry. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Furious disabled Australians warn their lives could be put at risk and families broken apart under sweeping changes aimed at making the NDIS more financially sustainable.

The overhaul - which would include about 160,000 people shunted from the $56-billion-a-year scheme to separate supports run by the states - could also undermine Australia's human rights obligations, the disability discrimination commissioner has warned.

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