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3.1KArticleThe Cone of Silence in Tasmania
I wrote this poem in response to The Monthly article ‘The Rotten Core’ by Nick Feik (Feb, 2024). The Cone of Silence...
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International Day for People with Disability – What it Means to Me
I am feeling my age. I am 59 years and for 59 years I have been disabled. I have seen attitudes change...
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Getting Out of Our Advocacy Silos
I have been having thoughts on why people with disabilities do not engage with disability learning opportunities provided by organisations such as...
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Disability and Airport Security
On Tuesday 16 May 2023 at security screening at Adelaide airport at approximately 5.30pm I was subjected to the most horrific humiliation....
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What Price Freedom?
Today I caught a bus. So what’s unusual about that? you say, million so of people all around the world do it...
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A Shower, a Shower, my Kingdom for a Shower
I have a disability, the best description of which is like paraplegia. Essentially I have flaccid legs with no muscle tone or...
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Rural Health Struggle to Service People with Disabilities
As a person with disability, I am not doing myself any favours by living in a regional rural setting. I have Arthrogrophosis...
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A Wheelchair Journey
I was born with AMC (Arthrogrophosis Multiplex Congenita) which pretty much means my legs didn’t grow enough muscles and my bones became...
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Photo of the Week – Pay Up Or Else
Found in a letterbox in north-west Tasmania…
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International Womens Day for a Woman with Disability
As a women with a disability, bias and unconscious bias is a heavy load to carry. Women with disabilities are often stereotyped...
