Tag: employment
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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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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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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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7 welfare realities for disabled people that SBS’s “Could you Survive on the Breadline?” skated over.
How does job-seeking work in Australia if you are disabled? That’s the elephant in the room of the latest reality TV offering from SBS, with a social conscience twist, “Could you Survive on the Breadline?”. The show invited three Australians with public profile to dip their toes into the world of living on welfare for…
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Working from home – relief or risk?
During the pandemic, employers quickly learned just how many jobs can be done from home. If employers retain working from home as an option, it could remove barriers to employment for those disabled people whose access requirements would be put in the “too hard” basket if they needed to work on site.
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Don’t make us more Vulnerable
Over the last few years, the language used by politicians and the media to describe those of us who are less than privileged has changed. “Vulnerable people” has become a commonly used phrase.
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