Thread by @antipovertycent

We did it.

We weren't able to make all the important points we had to share at the #DSPinquiry.

We'll have more to say later + more experiences to share from our survey, but for now here are a few thoughts from AC's @kristin8X + @gdevera @PWDAustralia

apcentre.substack.com/p/the-governme…

@kristin8X @gdevera @PWDAustralia "The government should offer us euthanasia, because that would be kinder than denying our existence."
— response from a young disabled woman living on JobSeeker #DSPinquiry

@kristin8X @gdevera @PWDAustralia "My experience of going for the DSP has been that of fear, stress + humiliation. The system is so dehumanising that ppl, like me, give up defeated + still ill. I want to reapply, but am scarred. I feel l need help to do it + they make it so hard."
— response from Liz #DSPinquiry

@kristin8X @gdevera @PWDAustralia "Our evidence to this inquiry is about the daily experiences of disabled ppl. The ghouls in parliament need to put ideology aside, listen and find some humanity." – @kristin8X #DSPinquiry

@kristin8X @gdevera @PWDAustralia "Those of us on the DSP are struggling to pay for food and bills, let alone our medication, healthcare, suitable accommodation and other supports we need. And the hundreds of thousands of disabled people left to rot on JobSeeker have it far, far worse." – @kristin8X #DSPinquiry

@kristin8X @gdevera @PWDAustralia "Both the Coalition + ALP should be absolutely ashamed. As we seen in the @DRC_AU + now through the #DSPinquiry, their cruelty towards disabled ppl knows no bounds. They make decisions about our lives but will never understand the magnitude of barriers we face" – @kristin8X

@kristin8X @gdevera @PWDAustralia @DRC_AU "Without economic security, people with disability are blocked from social participation, blocked from employment opportunities and blocked from fully realising our rights. The DSP causes us suffering and we're pleading with you to stop it." – @gdevera @PWDAustralia #DSPinquiry

@kristin8X @gdevera @PWDAustralia @DRC_AU "Hundreds of people with disability and our advocates have contributed expertise to this inquiry. We have exposed beyond doubt what many already knew: the DSP is not adequate and falls far short of community expectations." – @gdevera @PWDAustralia #DSPinquiry

@kristin8X @gdevera @PWDAustralia @DRC_AU "The parliament should never have been comfortable sentencing people to a life of poverty, creating a lower caste of people with disability bc we're not seen to have the same economic value by employers. But it’s never too late to change for the better. – @gdevera #DSPinquiry

"DSP policy must be based on the needs of people with disability and not on the fallacy that the federal budget must be balanced on the backs of the least well-off people in society." – @gdevera @PWDAustralia #DSPinquiry

"This gov can reverse the trend of punitive changes that push more + more of us to rely on unemployment payments. This country’s utterly inadequate income support system is killing + harming people with disability. They can choose to stop it. – @gdevera @PWDAustralia #DSPinquiry