Around the world there as a fuzzy sight, a hazy sound, lurking to find the ‘incurable social misfits’ are the label makers. Job creators....
ByMaria Rigoni07/05/2025Diversity is a catch cry, all dressed up with nowhere to go in the discussion of disability embracement. Many people are overly concerned...
ByMaria Rigoni07/05/2025In between COVID-19 lockdowns, I spent the weekend with friends on the Bellarine Peninsula. We went out to lunch at a very popular...
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025Australia’s proud culture was built on taking the Micky out of all and sundry especially ourselves. Jokes are a fantastic tool to allow...
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025Not taking a wheelchair user’s booking at a small Indian restaurant is a valid business decision that needs to be acknowledged and understood....
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025Independent egress for wheelchair users is something that I have personally observed as an absolute non-concern for any government authority. Acts and regulations...
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025In 2020 nearly every government on Earth panicked and fell into the same New World Order trap. Both COVID-19 and Black Summer bushfires...
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025Not so long-ago Tony and I went to a show at a Melbourne Theatre. The wheelchair user seating was on the left-hand wall...
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025We are all human you know… individuals in our own right and collectively without distinction, without placing labels, without differentiating any of us....
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025“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...
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025