Tag: diversity

Disability Rights and Attitudes Life Journey
23/07/2023

Some think renaming ‘disabled parking’ or ‘disabled toilets’ to include ‘accessible’ fixes everything…

Disability’ is something imposed on top of a person’s impairments by the way they are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society. Disability’ arouses pity and pity peddling. ‘Disability’ arouses hero inspiration for doing normal stuff. ‘Disability’ arouses invasive inquisitiveness. ‘Disability’ suggests tragedy. ‘Disability’ stands for dispossession and misery.  ‘Disability’ confirms one-dimensional. ‘Disability’ purports need fixing. ‘Disability’ is a plot device. ‘Disability’ is […]

Disability Rights and Attitudes Life Journey
17/07/2023

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 and not get upset about what another person may say regardless of how audacious or foolhardy the words used were. And yes it is very natural to be fearful of a simpleton walking alone down the street having conversations with themselves, especially […]

Australia Disability Life Journey
05/06/2023

“If you can’t walk you can’t take the tender” is simply violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation

Hurtful disability discrimination is caused more though plain ignorance due to no experience so no recognition of someone else’s normal. Not all disability discrimination is illegal nor should it be. This is a two way street. I will next discuss the intensive news and internet exposed incident instigated by a C5 quadriplegic public speaker that occurred at an Indian restaurant near his home in a […]

Australia Life Journey
01/04/2023

Who is kidding who about blackfella inclusion in the Australian constitution?

Who is kidding who about inclusion in the Australian constitution? The blackfella’s of today want their own national sovereignty “a space of our own, free from influence of whitefella government” The Torres Strait Island flag was adopted by the nation of Torres Strait Islander peoples in May 1992. The First Nations national flag was first raised on 9 July 1971 at a land rights activists […]