Category: COVID!9

• The rental crisis brings group-home style living to tenants in 2024

  

  Affordable housing is on offer that pushes non-disabled people to experience some of the same dynamics as group-homes.

  Jane Scott

  March 9, 2024

  Australian politics, COVID!9, disability, disability inclusion, housing, Uncategorized, working from home

  disability, inclusion, politics, working from home

• 5 reasons Jobseekers can’t solve supply chain issues (& the government knows them already)

  

  Australia has a labour shortage.  The most recent unemployment figures were  4.2% , the lowest rate since 2008.   Supply chain issues due to the Omicron wave are leaving supermarket shelves empty.  Anne Ruston, Minister for Social Services suggested recently that unemployed people need to step up to fill the gaps.  We saw headlines about…

  Jane Scott

  January 21, 2022

  COVID!9, disability, employment, supply chain, welfare

  covid19, disability, employment, politics

• 5 ways a Universal Basic Income would help us cope with COVID19

  

  Australia needs a Universal Basic Income (UBI). It feels like we are in a dystopian choose your own adventure novel.  COVID cases in NSW have been at record highs for weeks. Thousands of people are in hospital, the system is overstretched but we’re not in lockdown.  We are able, even encouraged, to move freely around…

  Jane Scott

  January 14, 2022

  COVID!9, disability, employment, Universal Basic Income, working from home

  covid19, disability, employment, UBI, Universal Basic Income