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Today in australia they started senate hearings on the bill the government hopes will make enough disabled people die or disappear to make us all less irritatingly expensive for them. We had two weeks to submit feedback on over 400 pages of complicated legal terms. They don't care what we have to say and they donāt care that this will kill people and disenfranchise disabled people across the country.
There are 760,000 Australians on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the system that - if they feel like it and your personalised plan says you get to have it - provides funding for everything from personal hygiene care to support workers to therapies to assistive technology. It's already very hard for disabled people to get on the NDIS, regardless of your disability. It's near impossible to access most support and equipment without being on the NDIS. And the government has announced that they want that number to drop to 600,000 in four years. 160,000 of us cut off the Scheme - and countless more denied access. This will cause deaths. People will die and people will suffer because there is no safety net. The NDIS is the only option for most of us. Even private health insurance doesn't cover most of these things. Nobody will swoop in to save us.
The bill wants to give the (non disabled!) NDIS minister basically unlimited power to cut our funding. They're already planning what they'd do with that power. What rights they'll strip from us. What dignity and freedom they'll remove to make their budget look better.
The bill wants to force people to try every treatment out there before they're allowed to be on the NDIS. Including if the treatment is literally impossible to access. Thereās a lot of us living in regional areas or out bush who can't just pop to the capital cities for specialists. This will especially hurt disabled First Nations people in regional and remote communities, who already experience limited access to healthcare. Oh, and it includes chemical restraint, too. The government has directly refused to exclude chemical restraint from the required process, calling it "trialling medication".
If you're australian and worried, the ABC did a good breakdown of the proposed changes.
I know australia stuff doesn't really pop up on the radar on this site, but I want everyone to know what's going on. What we're fighting for here. Your australian disabled friends might be NDIS participants fearing for their life, rights, and freedom. They might not be a participant and afraid these changes mean they never will have access. We deserve better. The government built a system with no backup plan, and now they want hundreds of thousands of disabled people to pay the price for their bad planning.
Sorry we're too expensive to have rights, I guess.
left work early yesterday went on a walk in the park with my girlfriend we went to our coffee spot at 7pm and had a very nice convo with the barista guy who apparently is like a massive tea pervert talking to us about gongfu brewing and was like "well sometimes i bring my own imported tea into work and share it with customers so stop by sometime and hopefully ill get to make some for you". DELIGHTFUL. got pizza afterwards for dinner and someone there gave us 2 free pizza coupons and was like "ive seen you guys in here before and i know there are probably nights where you guys have to choose between gas or dinner too" and then she snuck a 3rd coupon into one of our pizza boxes too.... my girlfriend was tearing up about it once we got home because it was just so kind i think she passed them on to us and thats it in that line... and we were both just like wow to be seen in the world... i literally must change my lifestyle and break out of my evil routine to be honest
It bothers me so much that the healthcare system relies so much on the patient's ability to advocate for themselves, organize their history, and be so persistent against every medical āprofessionalā who says thereās nothing wrong/they can do. But so many struggle with fatigue, brain fog, and face such ingrained systemic barriers, that the people who need and deserve help and support canāt access it.
I saw something recently that resonated with me: āAccess shouldn't depend on who has the energy to fight for it.ā And Iāve never agreed with anything more.
\\ just because i haven't done it sooner... reblog this post to get an ask as part of the Possibly in Mt. Silver arc/story!!! yes it has a Mysterious Gear Anon, yes they're going to be the one sending all the asks. it sure is a Situation:tm:.
\\ just because i haven't done it sooner... reblog this post to get an ask as part of the Possibly in Mt. Silver arc/story!!! yes it has a Mysterious Gear Anon, yes they're going to be the one sending all the asks. it sure is a Situation:tm:.
i need to get off tumblr iām at the aquarium admiring the fish and my brain goes āposts that make you want to get in the waterā what are you talking about. these are live fish in the room with you. what post.
I miss when ads were a single click and then theyāre gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesnāt even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.
I hate advertising. I hate that you canāt do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that thereās nothing I can do about it.
