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1.0KArticleDisability Organisations and Unconscious Paternalism
Disability organisation have been around for more than a century. Organisations with such outdated names like the “rxxxd” children’s and, “spxxxtic children...
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Choice and Control or Control over Choice?
Tammy Milne ponders the rights of those living in group homes, and with intellectual disability, to food access and choice.
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Friday Was A Good Day
.Friday was a good day; I only suffered discrimination and was othered because of my physical disability three times that I can...
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Unemployment a Problem for People With Disabilities
I applied for a job. A small job worth seven hours a week, that’s all. I did not get an interview and...
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Participation Makes My Life Worth Living
Participation makes my life worth living. I am a joiner … I want to belong and contribute to my community. As a...
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Disability Voices Tasmania Laments Funding Uncertainty
Disability Voices Tasmania is unique in that we are the only cross-disability organisation in Tasmania. Our existence, however, is now under threat....
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Lack of Understanding of PWD and Injury in the Health System
What does it really mean to be disabled and have an accident? Does mainstream medicine really understand the impact on our ability...
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Voting Access Still Manifestly Inadequate
One in 16 votes in the Tasmanian state election were invalid. Let’s address the elephant in the room here: it’s access. Our...
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What Political Parties Have to Learn About Being Approachable
Yesterday I went to a local market. The streets were closed off and the market sprawled for the length of the town,...
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When a Dental Appointment is … Not Too Painful
Reading an article in a local newspaper published just three weeks ago suggesting that Tasmanians have the worst oral health in Australia,...
