Let’s talk about the Disability Discrimination Act.

The Disability Royal Commission said that it should be reformed. It doesn’t work.

They are right. When Sheila King lost her case against Jetstar in 2011, she had to pay $10,000 in costs.

That’s why we need a new DDA. 2/ The DDA works - or doesn’t work - like this.

I put in a complaint against @JetstarAirways today with the @AusHumanRights Commission. We will go to conciliation.

@RosemaryKayess knows how shit the DDA is, firsthand. The conciliation will fail, because we will not agree.

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This is bad. And this is now. Let’s talk about the codesign process that the NDIA are undertaking right now. Or, as we like to call it - the ratification of a foregone conclusion.

Remember NDIS independent assessments? #independentAssessments #auspol 2/ Today, the DROs - I’m assuming @dana_advocacy, @PWDAustralia, @WWDA_AU, @NEDA_PeakBody, @AfdoOffice , @FPDNAus, maybe organisations like @pda_au - will be attending a ‘meeting on codesign’. Which isn’t exactly what it sounds like - hey, @NDIS?

Younger folk may ask ‘who was Kevin Andrews?’

He was the Social Services Minister in 2013-14. I will speak neutrally about what I recall of him, because he’s dead.

Condolences to his family, friends and those who liked him. *takes a deep breath* 2/ Social Services Minister, Andrews introduced harsher measures for the Disability Support Pension, including stricter eligibility criteria, more frequent assessments for recipients under 35, and the use of government-contracted doctors to assess new claims.

I'm having some mental problems because, well, I'm mental.

Some of them come from the fact that my friend, who was being harassed by our shared stalker and her flying monkeys, unalived herself.

When I found out that she was dead, I named two of them. 2/ I did not say they had killed her. She took her own life. But I did say 'Well done, x and x. Nobody deserves to be harassed unto death.'

I stand by that. Because half of a dozen of her last Facebook posts, and almost all of our messages, included great distress over stalking.

So, the ChatGPT rundown aside - I had a mother's look and yes, yes this is happening.

Brand shiny new.

As of yesterday.

You can read it here. aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_…

The information that @KurtsViews has posted is correct.

This is a breakdown of what it says. x.com/KurtsViews/sta… 2/ This Bill is about Operation Ironside, which was a massive police investigation into organised crime. During this operation, AFP created and distributed thooper-special phones with an app called AN0M to catch criminals.

I thought I should put the one or two page submission in from an individual viewpoint, as well.

So here's my other submission.

The Great Digital Nanny State
(Or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Ban) 2/ Oh glorious guardians of our online sphere,
Who've discovered why they've been so worried all year:
Those dangerous teens on their Insta and Snap,
Who clearly need saving from this digital trap!

Okay, I have spent some time analysing the kids' social media ban Bill and holy hell, this is bad.

You have one day (til COB tomorrow) to get a letter of submission in and I think it would be great if you did.

Analysis. @DavidShoebridge @AdamBandt @SenatorJordon @Asher_Wolf. 2/ Firstly, here are the key parts of the Bill and their hidden impacts:

Surveillance Infrastructure Creation: From Bill Section 63D and 63F:
- Requires platforms to "take reasonable steps" to verify age
- Allows collection and storage of identity verification data

Reading a book in German about Aktion T4, about the disabled children who were the first victims of the Holocaust.

Horrifying that they were in religious, including Catholic institutions and sent to their deaths from there.

Here are some of the details. 2/ 'In the files of the Ansbach expert childcare unit, the nurses noted brief characteristics of the children who were later killed.

They were forced to die because the ward doctor Asam-Bruckmüller stated: "It is not to be expected that he/she will become a capable compatriot."'

This is a lengthy thread about the proposal by @AlboMP to put in place a social media ban.

This is a bad and unworkable idea. It is not about safety for our kids.

Let me talk for a minute about why there are concerns, including around rights & privacy, for Australian citizens.

https://twitter.com/criprights/status/1854487350954602982

2/ The biggest concern by far is that Aus does NOT have sophisticated legislation to protect citizens' rights.

And with players like former Ministers Victor Dominello (ServiceGen) & Stuart Robert monetising their experience in govt digital services...

theage.com.au/politics/feder…

So disabled people are being told that the NDIA want them to sign up to the app and use the identity verification protocols. I assume for data matching. However, there are privacy issues with the app and what is currently being carried out by Services Australia/NDIA.

Listen up. 2/ The my NDIS app gathers extensive personal and sensitive data, including navigation and identity verification information. It undermines privacy rights and contradict principles seen in international standards, where data collection is often more limited and specific.

The transitional rule with the lists has been sent out. And there are going to be a hell of a lot of unhappy campers. #auspol

Especially those who were at AAT fighting for a support. Stay tuned for this shit to drop properly.

I can pull out an AAT decision.... 2/ ...for every now banned item, the items excluded under the new NDIS lists, supported by cases where the AAT found such supports to be reasonable and necessary and which contradicts the lists.

Let me explain that.

Yesterday, an angry Bill Shorten told a disability conference that there were '13,000 NDIS participants who had 'chosen not to reply to us for well over a year'.

Today, I was told that there were 3,000 who had NEVER ever spoken with anyone at the NDIA. #auspol 2/ He was angry. Not even a postcard, he said. And I am guessing that their funding is still being spent, because if they were dead or missing, surely, surely, they would know.

But surely he knows how many people have 'preferred method of contact, email' on their case file?

My response to recent community criticism of Bill Shorten on 'caring'.

'My personal view is this. That Shorten did deeply care about the NDIS, for whatever reason. I do know that he was largely blindsided by the National Cabinet decision of an 8% cut (aka 'growth target').' 2/ I believe he fought for the NDIS and people with disability. Some people say that it was about it being the Cinderella portfolio, that he used it to get to where he got to, but I think that he did care about fairness and unfairness and that he was an ally for a very long time.

Here are the rest of the changes to the NDIS that were discussed long before the NDIS Review dropped. They planned it before Lisa Paul, Bill Shorten's new employer at the University of Canberra, had handed down the NDIS Review.

This was the LNP's plan. dataresearch.ndis.gov.au/reports-and-an…

https://twitter.com/criprights/status/1831858402626277514

2/ Important to remember that Albanese and National Cabinet handed down the instruction, after discussion behind closed doors, to cut the NDIS. They framed it as an '8% growth target'. After the Redbridge focus groups, they worked out how to sell it to the public.

I see the NDIA have put out a new publication - the Handbook for the Recently Defunded.

It has some suggestions for new goals to replace your old goals. <s> #auspol #SaveOurNDIS #NDIS 2/ 1. NDIS Goal: Improving mobility - prosthetics Unfunded New Goal: Harvest politician's legs for spare parts
2.  NDIS Goal: Improving nutrition Unfunded New Goal: Master the art of photosynthesis using politicians' hot air

Australia's peak disability organisations, lawyers, academics and others stood together to say no to this Bill & to say it would institutionalise, harm & endanger people with disability.

Yes. We do understand this. We live this life. We understand the legislation inside & out. 2. Here is a statement from First Peoples' Disability Network, who said that this Bill should not go through and would be bad for First Nations Peoples.



The Labor and Liberal governments ignored them. #auspol #insidersfpdn.org.au/wp-content/upl…

Appears that Labor are part of a reverse regulatory capture process by big providers. Going through all the legislative changes in detail, I see things.

And woaaaahhhhh. Hassan Noura is on their Board. You know. The McKinsey guy who was in charge of the NDIS Razor Gang. #Auspol 2/ Fasten your seatbelts, kiddies. This is a bit of a ride. @SquigglyRick @mariehjohnson

So I noticed first that there was a change in a piece of legislation that was about who gets to be thrown into a nursing home. It's not the Aged Care Act. It's another piece of legislation.

For God's sake, @DSSgovau @EngageDSSgovau.

You gave the entire sector TWO WEEKS to look at madly complicated lists that will exclude us from NDIS supports - and didn't provide any easy English. #EasyEnglish #Easyread.

And then, with FOUR DAYS TO GO, you finally publish - what? 2/ Your alleged easy English leaves out whole categories and even the discussion paper is wrong.

This is discrimination against disabled people. Going to lodge a DDA complaint, cos this is ridiculous and we have no other recourse. @inclusionoz, @DownSyndromeNSW, @VALID_Inc FYI

The actuary appeared at the #NDISAmendmentBill inquiry yesterday and spoke long and hard about a whole 300 plans (not necessarily people) that they justified cutting the NDIS over because of 'intraplan inflation'.

There was no REASON, they said, for this inflation. #SaveOurNDIS 2/ To be clear, if your informal carer dear ol mum/carer dies and you are suddenly left without support, you are supposed to put in a Change of Circumstances form or apply for an S100 review.

But these people - two thirds of them did NOT.

And therefore, the NDIS must be cut.

Shortcut for people backgrounding the DRC recommendations:

Accepted in Full (13 Recommendations):
Recommendation 6.37: Data collection and public reporting on psychotropic medication.
Recommendation 7.16: Priorities for inclusion in the new Disability Employment Services model. 2/ Recommendation 7.17: Develop education and training resources for Disability Employment Services staff.
Recommendation 7.27: Enable a Fair Work Ombudsman referral mechanism.
Recommendation 7.28: Improve information about wages and the Disability Support Pension.

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Yesterday, as I went up the street in my wheelchair, a passing man looked at me, hoiked up, violently spat at me.

This has taken me this long to write.
Men spit into their hand when they rape you. It is a huge trigger for me. I fled, thinking about @BillShorten. 2/ Because every single day there is another news story, carefully manufactured by Bill's media campaign, demonising disabled people and the NDIS.

It has led to an increase in hate crime in disabled people - I hear more and more of these incidents. But they don't count it.