‘He’ is my husband; I am not his ‘carer’ so treat me like you treat everyone else’s wife
Diversity is a catch cry, all dressed up with nowhere to go in the discussion of disability embracement. Many people are overly concerned...
Where the disabled toilets are does not matter to me anymore… but…
In between COVID-19 lockdowns, I spent the weekend with friends on the Bellarine Peninsula. We went out to lunch at a very popular...
The Social Model of Disability is a joke Joyce!
Australia’s proud culture was built on taking the Micky out of all and sundry especially ourselves. Jokes are a fantastic tool to allow...
What humanity means is forgotten by the elite who enjoy and control abstract human rights
Licorice is a sweet, chewy, aromatic black substance made by evaporation from the juice of a root and used as a sweet and...
“If you can’t walk you can’t take the tender” in most cases is an outright lie!
Not taking a wheelchair user’s booking at a small Indian restaurant is a valid business decision that needs to be acknowledged and understood....
Cruise Ship Emergency Drills Evacuation Plans
Independent egress for wheelchair users is something that I have personally observed as an absolute non-concern for any government authority. Acts and regulations...
Emergency plan was government cure for “invisible grim reaper” COVID-19 virus
In 2020 nearly every government on Earth panicked and fell into the same New World Order trap. Both COVID-19 and Black Summer bushfires...
Don’t strip me of my wheels to rescue me!
Not so long-ago Tony and I went to a show at a Melbourne Theatre. The wheelchair user seating was on the left-hand wall...
Did any wheelchair user have independent egress off the cruise ship that did sink leaving this wheelchair in the muddy slush?
We are all human you know… individuals in our own right and collectively without distinction, without placing labels, without differentiating any of us....
The ‘DISABILITY’ label is a grievous misdemeanour against freedom of living an ordinary normal life
“Hey mum can you give me the blind man’s phone number?” “Sorry son, I don’t know any blind men.” “I mean the man...
