The Guardian • disabled
Medal bonuses don’t address ableism in Paralympic funding
On Thursday, 2nd September, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that medalists at this year’s Paralympic Games would get equal payments to their Olympic counterparts for the first time in Australian history.
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Issue #2036
Dealing with a disability and the NDIS process
Our grandson was placed with us when he was a baby. He was a victim of crime and is now living with an acquired brain...
Read moreDisabled and Neurodivergent Workers’ Alliance gains momentum
The Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers’ Alliance (DNWA), an organisation of neurodivergent and disabled workers both employed and unemployed, held their first AGM online in late August.
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Issue #2024
Multi-employer bargaining key to improving working conditions: ACOSS and ACTU
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has joined with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) to call on the Albanese government to implement...
Read morePoliticians treat marginalised peoples as props
E Lennon As the two major parties press towards a 21st May election day, their treatment of marginalised peoples worsens. People with Disability Australia (PWD)...
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Issue #2137
Lianghui 2025
What is China’s “Two Sessions,” or “Lianghui”? China has a socialist people’s congressional system. Liang (two) Hui (sessions) is the meeting of the two most...
Read moreIssue #1978, article “DISABLED AND NEURODIVERSE (NEURODIVERGENT) WORKERS’ ALLIANCE GAINS MOMENTUM.”
CORRECTION The Guardian needs to correct the name of “Disabled and Neurodiverse Workers’ Alliance” to “Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers Alliance” (DNWA). The article also claimed...
Read moreGovernment’s contempt for disabled people can no longer be ignored
It is hardly a shocker to hear of the Coalition government’s antipathy towards its nation’s most disadvantaged people. But with recent facts coming to light this month, the government’s attacks on disabled people have gone from predictable to egregious.
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Issue #2152
NDIS inbuilt rorts: a user’s view
The National Disability Insurance Scheme has private providers and rorting built in. This is our experience. We have written several letters of complaint about company...
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Issue #2101
People’s budget – Working class solutions
The 2024-25 Budget threw crumbs to workers, their families, the unemployed, and the environment while lining the pockets of fossil fuel corporations and the military-industrial...
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Issue #2111
‘Betrayal’ on disability reforms
“Disabled people will no longer accept being kept out of view, restrained to our beds, locked in institutions, or subjected to ableism and segregation by...
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Issue #2074
Respect my ability
It took years of struggle by disability advocacy groups and PWD (people with disabilities) and their supporters before the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect...
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Issue #2103
Bill to kill NDIS
“This bill threatens the future of the NDIS and the rights of disabled people. Labor had the gall to create it behind closed doors. It...
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Issue #2138
DINGO
A survey of 1,011 people across Australia has found half of respondents are going without food, medication and other essentials to try to pay their...
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Issue #2100
More for war in a class budget
“In a cost-of-living crisis, the Labor government is choosing to remove $14.4 billion in funding from the NDIS that will lead to disabled people not...
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Issue #2162
AUKUS: Who pays?
People with disabilities, the aged, the sick, the unemployed and other social security recipients, the most vulnerable in the community and those who capitalism sees...
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