During the late Wednesday sitting, the Minister was forced to make house amendments to remove a large section of the Social Services Regulation Bill after failing to secure support from the Liberal and Nationals or the crossbench.
The legislation, which sought to combine the existing disability complaints and oversight services into a new umbrella Social Services Regulator, was heavily opposed by disability advocacy and representative groups, unions and even Labor's own disability membership group (Labor Enabled).
All stakeholders argued it ran contrary to the Disability Royal Commission (RC) finding "to establish or maintain an independent one-stop shop complaint reporting, referral and support mechanism to receive reports of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with a disability."
The RC went on to say this "should be co-designed by people with a disability and should be placed within an existing independent organisation."
Shadow Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers, Tim Bull, said the overwhelming feedback was one of anger at the Minister's failure to properly consult the sector.
"The Minister's disability state plan slogan is 'nothing about us without us', but this proved it is only a catchy phrase she clearly does not adhere to, or live by.
"This Minister introduced a similar Bill 18 months ago, but it sat between houses of parliament because she knew it had no support, and then she had to embarrassingly withdraw it a month ago."
"Now the Minister has tried to ram it through again in a larger Bill against the wishes of the disability community. The astounding thing is that in the 18 months it sat between houses she had ample time to consult properly, but failed to do so."
"When you have the Liberal and Nationals, all the crossbench, Unions, Labor Enabled and a large section of the disability sector rejecting this - it's a fair assumption it is very poor legislation and the Minister has just not read the tea-leaves."
Mr Bull thanked the sector for its advocacy and the Upper House crossbench for standing with the disability community and preventing the legislation from passing.
"My hope now is that the Minister engages in genuine consultation, as she should have done, and brings the community with her on this reform," he said.
