Category: Disability Rights and Attitudes

04/07/2023

The public transport ramp platform was wheelchair accessible, but the tram was not

Society needs help to get its act together in terms of access and travel and resources because the heat is too far away from the container for the water to boil. Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport, 2002 is 21 years old. During the COVID-19 pandemic, on a windy and cold day in the city of Melbourne, the writer caught a tram from Flinders Street […]

Disability Rights and Attitudes

04/07/2023

Access and Inclusion Plans are compliance “MUST DO” suffocating conscience insight

Music is composed in the mind before it is recorded on paper or digitally in our physical world. Access and inclusion plans are supposed to identify and can lead to addressing barriers to inclusion. The plans are directed to have an aim of inspiring improvements to accessible and inclusive communities, agencies and practices for people living with ‘disability’. However, these plans are central to the […]

Disability Rights and Attitudes

03/07/2023

DISABILITY label is a grievous misdemeanour against freedom of living a 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 who makes blinds to cover the windows.” “Oh, yes sure. Here it is.” A crucial requirement of grasping the needs of another human being is to understand their life circumstances and experiences. Sometimes conceptual frameworks are used in an attempt to sense […]