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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
 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) .