Disability
Access and Inclusion Plans are compliance “MUST DO” suffocating all 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...
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...
Polio is a good example to explain the difference between sickness and ‘disability’ – Remembering Paul Richard Alexander
This is an updated version of an article I authored in 2023. At various times during the first half of the 20th century, with...
Instead of the wheelchair being seen as freedom giving equipment the wheelchair is a society symbol of sickness, unhealthy and social ‘disability’
Write a book and it makes you an expert. Write an academic book and it is taught in education institutions and revered by...
Inside and Outside Maria’s Disability Pie
Will the songbird deep in my veins, disturbed by the sounds of silence, find the freedom it desires… Inside and Outside Maria’s Dis-ability...
Gregarious family life and powerful love intimacy is real in the life of people with broken bodies
Charismatic , charming, and humorous, Robin Francis Cavendish is another well publicised story of a man who was not ‘disabled’ by life or...
Social model of disability is archaic and flawed and responsible for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) a job creation scheme
Let’s get honesty on the table. The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was introduced as a job creation model for the Disability...
No one but self is responsible for how another person feels or reacts to spoken or written words
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me!” Once upon a time, people were taught to be tolerant...
Some think renaming ‘disabled parking’ or ‘disabled toilets’ to include ‘accessible’ fixes everything… Just makeup a label!
Disability’ is something imposed on top of a person’s impairments by the way they are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in...
Two with the mobility condition of paraplegia. One got much more from society due to his ‘Aboriginal’ status
The two men in the photos in this blog are Kevin Coombs and Bruno Secondo Moretti. Both were born in Australia in 1941....
