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The health system revealed at the Disability Royal Commission
Disabled people, and those that love them, have told the latest hearing of the Disability Royal Commission about their experiences in the health system. Neglect, abuse, violence all featured, with medical people and systems often talked about, not as caring health professionals, but as callous and cruel.
What’s next for the NDIS?
My latest essay is out on the public health news site, Croakey, looking at the major NDIS changes coming from the Tune Review, but more importantly, whether this will make the NDIS work for disabled people.
What IDPWD stories to disabled people want?
Often media coverage of International Day of People with Disability (IDPWD) can be shallow, and focus on issues that aren't central to disabled people. I asked disabled people for their ideas for different stories about what matters to them- 'more about the day being...
Climate Strike
How can moves to address climate change, and protests to demand action, include disabled people? Alice Wong, Jason Boberg and Mia highlighted the different ways that organisers of the climate protests weren't making them accessible. Alice raised that organisers...