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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Tomorrow we are mourning the NDIS. Our NDIS. The NDIS that was about ending scarcity, giving disabled people normal lives and real supports to be who they are. Join us in Melbourne at the DSC conference to grieve what we have lost. You are not alone. You are not imagining it. Wear black.

Image with a picture of a red stop sign and the words 'Stop the Cuts'. Save our NDIS. Join disabled people and our allies to protest the NDIS Cuts.

We demand:
No one should be worse off. Stop cuts to NDIS money and support. Do no force people into shared supports or institutions. Treat mental health fairly and...
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Fund support for our real lives, not just labels. Stop removing children and adults from the NDIS. Real codesign with our community. Harm costs more. Stop the cuts.

Where: NDIS conference, Melbourne Convention Centre, South Wharf. When: 9am - 12 noon Tuesday 20th May. What: Wear black, bring a sign that says 'stop the cuts' or 'the NDIA are harming us.' All caps: We are stronger together.

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Cat @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Ask the #NDIS participants you care about how it's going now. #Auspol #AusVotes #AusVotes2025

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Sarah Blahovec @sblahov.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Do you know how much eugenics you have to be doing for Autism Speaks to be like "whoa that's too much eugenics"

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The NDIA are overdue on responding to a number of questions from Senator Jordon Steele-John about eligibility reassessments, including who is being impacted and how much the NDIA is saving by throwing people off the scheme.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This year for Autism Awareness Month - the challenge is to do all these in one month.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Snap NDIS community catch up with Senator Jordon Steele-John tonight, 6.30pm AEST contact-wa.greens.org.au/civicrm/even...

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NDIS Snap Online Community Catch-Up | The Greens

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Department of Social Service has just sent out an email saying that there will be new NDIS rules on plan management decisions (i.e. the power to make people 'Agency managed' and unable to use non registered providers) as well as decisions around changes of circumstance.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It just occured to me for the first time in my life that I don't need to work at a fast pace. I can just, mark these essays, slowly. It's incredible how much less stressful this is. Is this how burn out happens?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/01/2025

periodically I look around at the state of the internet and the way it is clearly contributing to making the world worse in so many ways, and I think back to dicking around in a computer lab in the early 00s and how full of promise it all felt, and I feel sad it didn't have to be this way

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I'm sick with something that seems suspiciously like COVID. I did a few tests at the start of the infection, but didn't get a positive result. I'm now reading about the accuracy of RAT tests and being horrified. It's basically unchecked out there, and there's very little anyone can do about it.

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Leaky Lifeboat isn't on LinkedIn, but if you are, we'd love some allyship there when we share updates about the impacts of #LeakyNDIS reforms. Right now, our focus is urgently fixing unfair #NDIS eligibility reassessments before we see 1200/week again. This LinkedIn post nails it. #Auspol

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Mark Pietsch on LinkedIn: Open letter to the NDIA regarding procedural fairness in NDIS eligibility…

This is a call to action for fairness and dignity. NDIA, it’s time to listen to us. Time to act ethically. Time to include people with disabilities…

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Another reason why we shouldn’t put the robots in charge just yet.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The thing that’s frustrating me the most about being visibly disabled at the moment is the way that my life is assumed to be kinda tragic even if they’re not. Like, this is the best things have ever been for me but because there’s a wheelchair involved people can’t help see it as such a shame.

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Ben Davison @bendavison.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Imagine reporting that healthcare, education and infrastructure are a “drain” on the Commonwealth budget. They are, along with education, NDIS, pensions and defence, THE REASON for the Commonwealth budget! #auspol

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Thinking of all the disabled folks having a lonely holiday season bc ppl couldn't be bothered with COVID precautions, the space wasn't accessible, funds are tight, you need the time off to recover, ppl are disappointed you're not who you used to be, invitations are simply no longer forthcoming, etc.

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Hey #Auspol, you heard about all those #NDIS eligibility letters, right? Where else have we seen vague government letters fishing for vague information in a way that sets recipients up for an adverse outcome in the last decade? 👀 #LeakyNDIS

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"Not providing an NDIS participant or their nominee sufficient information to have reasonable opportunity to respond is not only a clear an absence of procedural fairness, but also demonstrably unethical."

Below this, it states:
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Open letter to the NDIA regarding procedural fairness in NDIS eligibility reassessments

The bottom includes the website link: "leakylifeboat.substack.com."

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Spotify is killing music This is a brilliant and detailed analysis of their use of fake / ghost / AI music to fill out playlists, replacing real artists to avoid paying any royalties, even the tiny crumbs they pay us real musicians Capitalism sucks harpers.org/archive/2025...

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The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

Spotify’s plot against musicians

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Funding criteria for the equipment program in my state. Sometimes I imagine that instead of arbitrary rules we had some kind of system that looked at your disability and your goals and then worked out what you needed to make that happen. Then I remember we did have that. #LeakyNDIS.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

@squigglyrick.bsky.social's article about the chaotic and rushed transition to algorithmic budget setting at the NDIS. Our leaky lifeboat is headed for an iceberg and the government just wants to keep speeding up. #LeakyNDIS www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

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Exclusive: ‘Catastrophic errors’ seen in rushed NDIS reform

Following confidential briefings, disability advocates say hundreds of thousands of people will be underserved by new eligibility rules that are reminiscent of failed Coalition policy.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Can someone tell me what person-centred means? I'm new to this disabled life, but as far as I can tell it seems to be a kind of incantation used by people who are in the middle of doing an oppression to help themselves feel better. Don't worry Susan, at least it was a person-centred oppression.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

@jetstarairways.bsky.social Not okay. Please address your discriminatory policies that limit how many wheelchair users are allowed on your flights at one time. Disabled people deserve access to budget airlines too.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Until you experience it, it’s hard to understand, people with disabilities aren’t looking for “special treatment” or a government funded life of luxury. We want support to enjoy the basic privileges of being an adult most people take for granted.

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Imagine if... the only way you could get shoes was waiting on hold to see how generous the Telstra service rep was feeling. Australians with disability want a fair go in life without the government micromanaging us and making our worlds smaller than yours. #LeakyNDIS 🛟

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Watching the recording of the DSS Foundational Supports "What we heard" webinar - let's see if there's anything useful here. engage.dss.gov.au/foundational...

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Foundational Supports | engage.dss.gov.auFoundational Supports – engage.dss.gov.au

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Did you get a vague NDIS eligibility reassessment letter before they were paused for Christmas? We've put some stuff together for you. #LeakyNDIS 🛟 Here's Option 1:

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NDIS Eligibility Reassessments

I’m scared I will get an initial eligibility reassessment letter.

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Impacted by changes to the NDIS or supporting someone who is? Got an eligibility reassessment letter and don't understand: • Why you need new evidence • What new evidence you need • How you're meant to get it in 28 days? Grab a life ring and take a deep breath. You're not alone. #LeakyNDIS 🛟

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Impacted by changes to the NDIS? Don't know what to do next? You're not alone.

If the #LeakyNDIS lifeboat is leaving you behind, we're here to throw you a life ring.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"One signature reform to the #NDIS is removing the #foundationalsupports for children with mild autism and early developmental challenges..." This is the political editor of the AFR Phil Coorey showing a 🤯 lack of understanding of how the NDIS actually works. #LeakyNDIS shorturl.at/i8u0e

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NDIS growth curb ahead of schedule, but budget burden grows

The NDIS is on track to have its growth rate reduced to 8 per cent a year earlier than expected, but the cost of the scheme will continue to rise as a proportion of GDP,

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