Tag: inclusion
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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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Circumventing NSW Trains (A poem)
Travel gets complicated when the trains are out and you’re a power wheelchair user – but it inspired a poem.
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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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An open invitation to embrace Disability Pride (whether you’re disabled or not)
On Saturday April 9th, I attended my first ever Disability Pride Fest, in Newtown NSW. Wow! It was huge. It’s taken me a while to process my thoughts about it. As Disability Pride month closes, it seems like a good time to pull some thoughts together from the Pride Fest and from Disability Pride Month,…
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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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Disability pride is going to be big in Australia in 2022 – how much progress can we make?
Dylan Alcott is Australian of the year for 2022. Dylan is a gold medalist in wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball. He just won a Golden Slam in tennis (all four tennis majors and a gold medal in the same year). He’s a television personality. He’s also a disability advocate. It’s hard to know what the…
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5 Invisible Walls of Disability Discrimination and how to turn them into Yellow Brick Roads of Inclusion.
Have you ever walked into an invisible wall? There’s something in the way, but no one even knew it was there. That’s what it’s like when you hit an access barrier. It could be a small step, a locked door or a crowded aisle. With a bit of planning, an invisible wall can often be…
Rolling Through 