Aug 28, 2024
'I can’t go on doing this. I can’t fill out any more forms. I can’t keep having to prove that I’m sick, that I need help.'
Disability rights activists operating under the title of the Sicko Liberation Organisation picketed outside the office of NDIS Minister Bill Shorten last Thursday.
“Ritalin has the mic right now,” said the organiser, leading a small huddle of aggrieved protesters who felt blindsided by Labor’s recent reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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