Why the failed NDIS is a story of preventable harm and institutional negligence
The view from the frontline of NDIS service delivery is bleak.Providers must often choose between safe care and financial survival, and too many participants, and workers, are at risk. The NDIS is not working for too many people with disability, Claire-Louise McCrackan says. Picture: iStock The National Disability Insurance Scheme was meant to be one…
To regulate or not too regulate
To regulate or not to regulate… do we really have to ask the question? “Any rule endorsed by government where there is an expectation of compliance.” – Australian Government Guide to Regulatory Impact Analysis (2020) Did you know that it’s illegal for your chicken to cross the road in Alabama? You want to ask why…
Mind the gap
The gap between the future of disability care and the NDIS today With the advent of the NDIS and deinstitutionalisation, a gap has become obvious between the NDIS vision and the reality that exists for many people with a disability. For those who do not receive the NDIS and have a disability, that gap is…
Don’t PanicÂ
NDIS reform and the back on track bill In the beginning there were the States and territories looking after people with disabilities and unobserved all was well until it wasn’t, which was when it was observed. Well, it was well but when looked upon it was frowned upon. The people were unhappy especially those with…
Death by a Thousand FailuresÂ
This camping aid allows a woman to stand and pee like a man. It is also used more frequently than you’d imagine by disability support workers, so their low-life butts don’t touch their employer participants’ toilet seats. Curiously, when I look up the Fair Work policy, I see no support for such a device. Nor…
Adventure of a disability support workerÂ
A lot is happening in the media now about the aged care crisis and a crisis in the NDIS. Those who work within this industry are not nurses. They are support workers. They are at the bottom of the rung and regarded as less than cleaners, yet often with huge responsibilities. We are mostly casually…
Getting the NDIS back on track
What gives you hope? Every one of us will have a different answer to this question. For me, hope is more about what enables me in my life. Hope is my currency. No matter how hard life is and what adversity I must endure, the ability to have hope is perpetuated. It seems a straightforward…
Eric Bogle shows me A Reason for it all
I recently listened to a song that so resonated with how i felt i contacted the artist. This man i s called Eric Bogle. He is most famous for a song called and the band played Waltzing Matilda.But this song is about a woman who lived in Sydney and passed away alone and unnoticed.The traumatic…
 Disabled man hospitalised after flat was flooded with raw sewage (Daily Mail) .
You can read the full article published by the Daily Mail here: Disabled man hospitalised after flat was flooded with raw sewage (Daily Mail) . Continue reading “Â Disabled man hospitalised after flat was flooded with raw sewage (Daily Mail)Â .”…