S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today! Come along, guys and find out what the changes mean for all of us. Community can be healing and SWAN is up to date on all the info. Let’s get our entire sector together today! See you there <3 023
Reposted by S|AM Connorbrodner.bsky.social @brodner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026More at stevebrodner.substack.com 0239
Reposted by S|AM Connorstranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Shoebridge unloads on Labor for ditching the UK, Canada & France on new settlement sanctions on Israel, despite claiming to work with 'likeminded countries' “Does this govt really think the Aus public is just stupid?” “Trump, Netanyahu, they’re your partners!”💥 #auspol 13259124
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A very good read by Tom Keating. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08...johnmenadue.comNDIS reform is putting the cuts before the safety netParliament has passed the largest contraction of the NDIS since its creation. The amendments improve the bill, but budgets will shrink and eligibility tighten before foundational supports are operatin... 043
Reposted by S|AM ConnorCat @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Hell of a weekend for the NDIS Palantir FOI to drop. Note: - scope was for *potential* use - 22 docs refused - timeline similar to Crack Down on Fraud biz case - FFT agencies have contracts even if none listed for NDIA 📣 @squigglyrick.bsky.social @asherwolf.bsky.social @jeremynadel8.bsky.socialrighttoknow.org.auPalantir - a Freedom of Information request to National Disability Insurance AgencyUnder the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting any correspondence between Palantir Technologies and the agency since May 2020 and any documents since 2022 that mention how the NDIA could use Pa... 22323
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 17/07/2026www.facebook.com/share/v/14gu... I’m not going to shut up any time soon. You can take the dog out of the fight, but not the fight out of the dog. One dollar NDIS plan or not. How many more are there? Are they doing this to say that they haven’t booted people off the NDIS?facebook.com 072
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 15/07/2026One of the young folk who has been fighting the changes to the NDIS needs safety and stability after becoming homeless recently escaping FDV. If you can help, here’s the link - www.gofundme.com/f/disabled-c...gofundme.comDonate to Disabled Cancer Survivor Homeless due to DV, organized by Finn LukaMy name is Finn and I am a 23 year old cancer survivor and wheelchair user. I … Finn Luka needs your support for Disabled Cancer Survivor Homeless due to DV 096
Reposted by S|AM ConnorJeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026"The real lesson from decades of harm is not that we need to tweak compulsory activities. It is that we need to abandon compulsion and place our trust in people instead of providers." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...thepoint.com.auWhat are Australia's jobs programs really for? The answer may be that employment was never the point.This month it was Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth announcing changes to the compulsory activities people on JobSeeker can be forced to undertake. The debate always focuses on the details. Wh... 513756
Reposted by S|AM ConnorPeter Fox @peterfox59.bsky.social · 22/06/2026When whistleblowers are saying this, you known they have been abandoned by the @AlboMP gov't. He's lost my vote. KPMG scandal: Whistleblower reveals the toll of speaking out over alleged misconduct by KPMG share.google/pHfugcp1MCTN...share.google‘I would not do it again’: KPMG whistleblower reveals toll of going publicThe former consulting executive reported that the firm had used confidential information to win work, resulting in a major scandal. 31816
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Please share widely and remind @australianlabor.bsky.social @greens.org.au the Liberal Party and those politicians who profess to hold their faith dear to their heart that this Bill must not pass. Thank you, Bishops, for this important directive. mediablog.catholic.org.au/national-dis...mediablog.catholic.org.auNational Disability Insurance Scheme bill requires further work - ACBC MediaBlogThe Australian Government has been urged to review its proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme to ensure the most vulnerable are not left behind. Chair of the Bishops Commission f... 083
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Watching Senator Jordon Steele-John intermittently raging at and patiently schooling a row of NDIA and Health bureaucrats and TEARING them a new one is perhaps the best thing I have ever watched. MASTERFUL. www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-geo...linkedin.comCheck out this heated exchange at the NDIS Bill hearing. The government says employment supports will not be affected. But when pressed, officials confirmed the reality that many disabled people… | ...Check out this heated exchange at the NDIS Bill hearing. The government says employment supports will not be affected. But when pressed, officials confirmed the reality that many disabled people alr... 24020
Reposted by S|AM ConnorAnonymous Sewer Rat 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜🖤🤎 @anonymoussewerrat.bsky.social · 01/05/2026From @criprights.bsky.social #NDIS #DisabilityRights 02611
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This is Australia's plan to pay for AUKUS subs. Not to tax billionaires or gas giants, not to cancel AUKUS. But to end the lives of 1000s of disabled Australians. I cannot think of anything crueller. Can you? linktr.ee/protectourndis www.dpacaustralia.net/get-involved... #ProtectOurNDIS #Gaza 094
Reposted by S|AM ConnorAntfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Jillian Segal the so-called anti semitism envoy and funder of hate group Advance, apparently has put out a #bondi statement equating the massive anti genocide March across the Sydney Harbour bridge months back as a cause of this terror event. She needs to resign and repay every cent to the taxpayer. 818764
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 14/12/2025That heroic bloke who disarmed one of the gunmen and was shot twice? His name is Ahmed al Ahmed. He has two kids and owns a fruit shop in Sutherland. While you’re screaming about Muslims and race, you’re dismissing the actions of a hero. thewest.com.au/news/nsw/bon...thewest.com.auBondi hero who tackled shooter suffered two gunshot woundsThe hero who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters has been identified as a father-of-two. 1355
Reposted by S|AM ConnorChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 30/11/2025DéLana R. A. Dameron was a brilliant poet & fiction writer about my age that I was in community with who has suddenly passed which is earth shattering. This is her acclaimed novel. @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/redw...bookshop.orgRedwood Court (Reese's Book Club): FictionFiction 53316
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Hilarious that Netflix is screening a bunch of promo fireplace videos while Australia is largely on fire. 061
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Please spread this far and wide & if you are in WA, please help look for Kendra! Kendra has been out alone since Friday am and her family is worried sick about her. She has no meds & is part of our community. Kendra recently shaved her head. Della is out looking for her now. Lets bring her home <3 05147
Reposted by S|AM ConnorWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... 13043181364
Reposted by S|AM ConnorThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 03/10/2025On the echoes of refrigerator mothers in MAHA policy: Tiffany Hammond @fidgetsandfries.bsky.social "sees the focus on Tylenol and vaccines not only as a way to blame moms, but as a way to distract from Trump’s cuts to the services and supports families like hers need." 19thnews.org/2025/10/refr...19thnews.orgThis isn't the first time moms have been blamed for their kids' autismOne of the earliest theories of autism is centered on “refrigerator mothers.” Echoes of it can be found in plans to Make America Healthy Again. 24517
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 02/10/2025***PLEASE SHARE*** Tomorrow! One year on from the NDIS cuts - what’s the impact and what next? Community forum (online) Fri 3 Oct, 12:00–2:00pm AEST. Story-sharing + expert panel. Register: events.humanitix.com/community-forum-ndis-cuts #NDIS #DisabilityRights #AusPol #StopNDISCuts #SaveOurNDIS 0169
Reposted by S|AM ConnorJane Doe, pretty hate machine @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 28/09/2025#AusLaw #NDIS #disability Remembering @criprights.bsky.social 051
Reposted by S|AM ConnorAlastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 28/09/2025"Erin Turner Manners, a senior solicitor at the Justice and Equity Centre, said airlines have obligations under discrimination and consumer law but this hasn’t prevented discrimination and poor customer experiences." #auslaw www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...theguardian.comCalls for change after Qantas refuses to fly British woman with mobility scooter due to its batteryAs airlines toughen rules around lithium batteries due to fire danger, disability advocates call for clearer accessibility standards and more consistency between carriers 163
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 26/09/2025This NDIS registered provider (the govt says that registration will ‘keep us safe’) wants to be famous. Well, let’s meet Monique, who underpays and exploits disabled people through her NDIS registered modelling agency, Diversity Models. 9now.nine.com.au/a-current-af... Make her famous.9now.nine.com.auDisability modelling agency boss pocketing money she could use to pay her models 04023
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 25/09/2025SHARE SIGN UP GET IN FAST THIS IS AWESOME events.humanitix.com/community-fo...events.humanitix.comCommunity Forum: NDIS Cuts One Year OnNDIS cuts are harming disabled people and our supporters. Join us for a forum to learn what's happening and how you can be prepared and take action. 0106
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Kirk shooter is rather unsurprisingly not trans, nor Black, and comes from a nice white Republican background. Watch that uncomfortable silence grow, between the cracks of the Horst Wesseling. 174
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Please sign and share! chng.it/JV9WQDTjBZchng.itSign the PetitionReplace Dr Mike Freelander as Chair of the Thriving Kids inquiry 011
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Please sign and share: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... To help clarify this part of NDIS complexity. New framework plans are yet to be introduced. When this happens NDIA will, by law, be able to restrict a participant’s information that can be considered by the assessor.aph.gov.aue-petitionse-petitions 054
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I hope Mark Butler MP was prepared, post his National Press Club of Australia speech, for the wrath of millions of disabled Australians to be rained upon the heads of he and his colleagues. Because after that shitshow, it’s coming. Nothing surer. 1295
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 17/08/2025More protest in the streets and chanting. It’s not midnight, so it’s probably not Nazis. It’s cold and it seems like a good idea to stay inside and warm. 0120
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I may have lost my shit on LinkedIn a little. BEHOLD. www.linkedin.com/posts/samant...linkedin.comIt’s masterful, really, watching the NDIS 2.0 playbook being rolled out. | Samantha Connor AMIt’s masterful, really, watching the NDIS 2.0 playbook being rolled out. We are all in crisis and so sick of the NDIS being so final season Game of Thrones that we are are almost too distracted to not... 2176
Reposted by S|AM ConnorSirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 12/08/2025So the gov more secretive than the pathological liars, aren’t realising a report described as dire, diabolical & extremely confronting. “heat-related fatalities, detailed suburb mapping of coastal inundation from sea level rises & shocking forecasts of impacts on the agricultural sector.” #Auspol 02020
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Why do we say people are brainy when we think they are clever? I mean, it’s offal. We don’t say we are livery. For that matter - we don’t say our skin is SKINNY. Sticks aren’t naturally sticky. Hair is by nature hairy. WHY DO WE DO THIS NOSY HANDSY FOOTY whyyyyy 491
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 21/07/2025We have rights. And nobody is allowed to take them away from us. We fight back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgQn...youtube.comRights Under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD)YouTube video by DARU 0287
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Action for Public Housing is one of several groups rallying at Town Hall on Saturday to call for an immediate end of police responding to mental health crisis cases, and the introduction of mental health-first responder programs in their place. www.starobserver.com.au/news/communi...starobserver.com.auCommunity Groups To Rally Following Death Of Gay Man In Police Custody - Star ObserverCommunity groups are calling for the end of police as first responders in mental health crises following the death of gay man Collin Burling. 34018
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 19/07/2025This is why you dont call NSW police on community. www.starobserver.com.au/news/communi... Ever.starobserver.com.auCommunity Groups To Rally Following Death Of Gay Man In Police Custody - Star ObserverCommunity groups are calling for the end of police as first responders in mental health crises following the death of gay man Collin Burling. 0104
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 19/07/2025This is why you dont call NSW police on community. www.starobserver.com.au/news/communi... Ever.starobserver.com.auCommunity Groups To Rally Following Death Of Gay Man In Police Custody - Star ObserverCommunity groups are calling for the end of police as first responders in mental health crises following the death of gay man Collin Burling. 22913
Reposted by S|AM ConnorGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14/07/2025On university costs, as with Defence, the ALP has decided that Scott Morrison should be the one setting policy 1930084
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Smitten has had blood tests done and they have hilariously shaved her neck and now she looks like she has had a tasty cat sized bite taken out of her. It is most disconcerting. 7392
Reposted by S|AM ConnorCat @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Tribunal rips NDIA to shreds in two decisions. NDIA, rather than contritely implementing said feedback, applies to refer both to the GAP. Best interests of the child, and all. /s #NDIS #Auspol #AusLaw #AusLegallinkedin.comIt would appear that, since this article, the NDIA has... | Cat WalkerIt would appear that, since this article, the NDIA has... *checks notes* ...applied to refer BOTH of these Tribunal decisions to the Guidance and Appeals Panel. Wonder where consideration of the Tr... 274
Reposted by S|AM ConnorSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025“This case illustrates that there are situations where the agency does genuinely do the wrong thing and does seem to have it out for individuals. So it is incredibly scary for participants” Seems that the #robodebt culture has permeated NDIA. #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...thesaturdaypaper.com.auExclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off schemeInternal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later. 21612
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Holy shit. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...thesaturdaypaper.com.auExclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off schemeInternal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later. 3134
Reposted by S|AM ConnorCrikey @crikey.com.au · 03/07/2025If we had a dollar for every time a scandal-plagued Liberal politician was erroneously affiliated with Labor by a newspaper... we'd now have $2.crikey.com.auNews Corp blunders (again), Kyle's tactical tantrum, and a Mamamia culpa?Plus the injuries sustained by former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas in an altercation with NSW Police are getting a lot of attention in Malaysia. 1146
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Australian tourist detained in prison under Trumps new policies www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgain...reddit.comFrom the MarchAgainstNazis community on Reddit: Tourist from Australia detained in federal prison overnight with no food, strip searched, no notification to her mom or familyExplore this post and more from the MarchAgainstNazis community 064
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Please explain this hotel artwork like you’re an art critic 031
S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Waking up to the saddest of news - one of our world’s great teachers, leaders and helpers, John O’Brien, has passed. It has been too many years since I saw you, John. But perhaps we will meet again. Thank you for your lifelong work for disabled people, my friend. Vale. 082