Category: disability
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Raising the Flag for Disability Pride 2025
I spoke at Inner West Council’s Inclusion Festival, where we raised the flag for Disability Pride. The flag has a black background – for both mourning and resistance.. Green is for sensory disability Blue is for mental illness. White represents invisible and undiagnosed disability. Gold is for Neurodiversity. Red Is for physical disability. Thanks to…
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Vulnerable or Resilient? It’s all in how you talk about it
The language we use frames our thoughts and is shaped by them. Using different words to describe the same thing can urge us to consider it very differently. “Vulnerable” is a dangerous word when it is used, to create a category of people.
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What if everyone had to live in households of no less than 3?
Who do you live with? Is it your choice? What if the government said that, to solve the housing crisis, everyone had to live in households of no less than three?
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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.
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7 useful tips for job seekers that I learned as a Recruiter
Over my “working” life, I’ve accumulated an astounding amount of experience as a job seeker. As a person with a disability, finding work has always been challenging – even more so when I stopped negotiating the world on crutches and started using a wheelchair. I’ve had long .and frustrating periods of un- and underemployment. When…
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Where are we headed under a “new, values-based capitalism”?
When “well-being” got a mention in the October 2022 budget, I felt a bit more hopeful ..The treasurer says he wants to build “a new, values-based capitalism” to better address disadvantage and help make communities more resilient. The idea of a “new, values-based capitalism” perplexes me.
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7 lessons for living that mountaineering and physical disability have in common (& can help you face your challenges)
What do mountaineers and disabled people have in common? Yes, you did read that right and, no, it’s not a riddle. The answers could equip you to deal with your own life challenges. Mountaineers and disabled people live life differently to most – one group by the roll of the dice, the other by choice..…
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How a Guaranteed Liveable Income could unleash the talents of People with Disability
What did you dream of becoming when you were a child? A teacher? A fireman? An astronaut? Reaching goals isn’t always easy. As we get older, we learn that not many people have what it takes to be an astronaut. Sometimes we have to adjust our dreams to be a bit more realistic. I was…
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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…
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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…
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