Thread by @criprights

4800 kids with permanent and significant disability were thrown off the NDIS in the last quarter. At the end of last year.

Sam and Max’s mother was in our community. I want a guarantee that their NDIS support wasn’t cut off. Both boys were disabled. odt.co.nz/news/australia…

2/ It was Sam, I think, who had cancer from birth. And right now NDIS is kicking off people who have cancer, because it’s the ‘health systems responsibility’ and the disabilities people are left with aren’t, in their opinion, significant enough any more, since they cut the NDIS.

3/ And look, grandma is in a mental health facility right now, and at any other time I would be counselling people not to speculate. Pointing out that hate crimes and mental illness and just plain evil exists.

But not right now. Because FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED DISABLED KIDS.

4/ That’s a fuck load of crisis when there are no apparent foundational supports in place. In fact, they can’t even define what a foundational support is, let alone be transparent about the shady deals they have done with the states and territories - or not.

Kicked off the NDIS.

5/ That woman had moved to Coonabarrabran from the Central Coast, near me. She was the maternal grandma. I want to know how hard DCJ pushed her to take those kids, what support they provided. She was on a big property, with horses.

But only 11 months into the move.

6/ Those little kids were due to get their yellow belts tonight at karate. Sounds like the country town embraced them. But it’s different from being surrounded by support.

Mum was in our peer groups, from 2017. But Grandma wasn’t.

She is 66. I know nothing of her.

7/ Usually, we would hold this information close to us, for the sake of the family and community. But this is not about pushing an agenda. It is about RISK.

Disabled children are being kicked off their only support system/lifeboat into an ocean devoid of anything to cling to.

8/ And parents are being told their kids will just need to sink or swim.

Dear @NDIS, please check to see if Sam & Max Heggs were recently ‘exited’. Not a ‘mortality exit’. And I guess if they were booted off, they’re not your concern, right? Won’t even need the bereavement team.

9/ The real question is this.

Who is responsible, if this is the case?

The govt, who brought in an 8% ‘growth target’?
Shorten, who implemented it?
@KosSamaras, who crafted the messaging?
StuRob, who came up with this deathly blueprint?

The NDIA, who did their bidding?

10/ Or Kathleen Heggs, who is being held in a hospital in Orange?

I don’t know.
I don’t know.
I don’t care.

But I pray this isn’t the cause of yet another parricide.

Parricide/democide. It’s all the same, isn’t it?

Sam. Max. And two yellow karate belts on small white coffins.

11/ @SquigglyRick you know that look I get in my eyes.

They called us extremists and shit stirrers and fearmongers.

And now we watch our community members die. One after the other.

But - the kids. The kids.