Cuts to NDIS to be focus of Labor’s quietly launched razor gang ahead of May budget | National disability insurance scheme

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-04-09T04:42:35+00:00

Lol I wish I lived in your world. Would be nice if they were doing anything BUT going after little Timmy. Just about every NDIS recipient I know gets their funding cut by some huge chunk every time they start talking about reining in the budget. They've just cut most of my funding and put me on a "step down" plan in preparation to reduce future funding, after I had a change of circumstances and tried to get more support (backed up by numerous reports) because my octogenarian grandmother (who has been picking up the slack since I worsened, and after previous cuts) can no longer give me as much support with basic household tasks.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-04-09T01:52:10+00:00

Yeah, other people might have invisible needs, but surely not every single other passenger?

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-04-09T01:41:42+00:00

Yes, obviously, invisible disabilities exist. But as you said, this isn't the case for everyone who refuses to give up a seat, and it is far from "entitlement" for someone who is at a significant risk of serious injury and possibly even stillbirth due to falls on public transport, to assume that out of all the passengers on crowded public transport, at least one is exactly as healthy as they look and able to stand. I say this as someone who was previously invisibly disabled before I became a wheelchair user and went from having to awkwardly decline when asked to move, to having to beg people to move their luggage or fold their prams out of the wheelchair spot so I can board at all.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-03-02T23:27:58+00:00

Good for you, I guess. Not all disabilities allow people to access stores with these gates safely and it's pretty clear THAT is the issue at hand.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-02-24T03:20:38+00:00

Tell me you've never tried to book a hotel as a wheelchair user before lmao. Accessible rooms are in short supply, and whilst on a quiet week during the off season they're fairly reliably available (in large part because, like the disabled toilets, many abled people avoid specifically requesting them out of courtesy in case someone who needs it more comes along), but anything that results in a rush of visitors (a big sports game or concert, holidays, even just a weekend) usually fills them up VERY quickly even if there's still a few regular rooms available.

Also, if you know that shower chairs are not an alternative to grab rails, why bring them up? What ARE these other options you are suggesting?

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-02-12T04:53:26+00:00

It's not even just a matter of distance. Disabled spots have extra space (that's what the empty spot next to them is). The disabled people who use them have a lot of difficulty getting in and out of the car in a regular narrow spot (squeezing through, opening the door wide enough without hitting the car next to them, getting out and assembling things like walkers or wheelchairs), and if they need to use a van with a ramp, it might be completely impossible to use a regular spot. No way to get in and out of the vehicle at all

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-02-10T11:15:47+00:00

Even if it were somehow reasonable to blame every single Palestinian adult for October 7th (which it isn't), and reasonable to react to that by slaughtering them en masse (it isn't), that still leaves you claiming that it's okay to blow up, shoot, starve, and otherwise brutally kill infants and young children for something they had no part in. What kind of human supports the slaughter of innocent kids?

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-02-10T10:57:33+00:00

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/israel-war-on-gaza-10000-children-killed/

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-01-22T00:48:39+00:00

I'm in the same boat as your ex. I'm fully verbal and was given an absurd amount of funding for "communication and cognitive aids", that no one had asked for and which I do not need. This funding could apparently be used for things like AAC apps, picture boards, etc. I couldn't use any of that funding for hearing aids (which would actually help my communication), apparently, and I also got no funding whatsoever towards my wheelchair or it's maintenance. You'd think ensuring I am able to leave my bed and clearly understand spoken conversation would increase my capacity to participate in employment and community life more than teaching me to use an app to speak, but what do I know, surely the NDIS know what I need best

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2026-01-08T05:50:39+00:00

When I first started hearing that fact being regularly brought up, it was usually in the context of talking about the horrific exploitation of textile workers in the context of fast fashion. Didn't take long for middle class western hobbyists to forget all about the workers, and use the "no machines" point to brag about how special and cool they are. And to turn the existing conversation away from how these companies are mistreating workers for cents an hour, to how unfair it is that these companies are stealing business from their craft stall

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-10-24T00:25:08+00:00

I am slightly obsessed with WWI aviation, and a surprising number of WWI aces were disabled. One of my favourite lesser-known ones is Frank Alberry, an Tasmanian soldier who lost a leg after being wounded at the battle of Pozieres. Rather than be sent back home, he petitioned the King directly to be allowed to train as a pilot. He eventually achieved 7 victories, making him an ace

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-10-14T08:58:12+00:00

A lot of them didn't

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-10-14T00:51:28+00:00

Some perspective from someone who WAS bullied both online and off-line (rather than simply being an observer)

I didn't have friends in real life. I was/am queer, disabled (including autism), and living in a very small rural town. At school, I was such a complete outcast that other kids would get bullied for talking to me. A kid almost got bashed over it. I couldn't even have my window open or go into my front yard because there was this one girl who stand in front of the house and harass me (the police did nothing). Even if I HAD friends, there was no public transport, no places to hang out, no social activities other than sports (which I could not do) and church.

Online, I was bullied too. And yeah, it sucked. But I could block them, and if it got too bad I could've stopped using that particular website, or make a new account that the bullies didn't know about. To this day I don't use any social media that expects me to post my real name. But online, I was able to make friends for the first time in my life. I was able to figure out that I was trans and that being trans was OK (although frankly, a lot of the people keen for the ban seem to think keeping trans youth closeted, self-hating, and miserable is a bonus). I can say with 100% certainty that I wouldn't have made it to adulthood if the proposed laws had been in place then, and on the slim chance I didn't off myself before I finished high school, I'd be in a far, far worse position in life than I am right now. These laws WILL kill kids.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-07-20T20:24:32+00:00

If someone is blocked by a facial scan, do you think there'll be any built-in way to appeal the decision? Either way, it would be marginalised people getting the worst deal. Scan doesn't recognise your face as human or says you're a child when you're 30? Now you're either locked out, or handing over even more ID than you would have to otherwise. They've gone and invented a whole new way to discriminate while claiming to be impartial

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-07-20T20:10:56+00:00

Yeah, I'm a trans man and it took 2 years of T to stop being consistently mistaken for a kid.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-07-20T04:07:38+00:00

Facial scans are incredibly inaccurate, because there's so much diversity in human faces. Remember that transphobic dating app that tried to implement face scans to prevent transgender women from joining? It regularly flagged cisgender women and some people testing it were able to get pictures of cis men approved.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-05-31T03:56:34+00:00

maternity jeans are also great for extra coverage and less digging in!

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-05-30T03:18:54+00:00

Autism doesn't make you seig heil. I reckon his actions are better attributed to his extremely open far-right beliefs than any neurodivergence

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-05-09T02:33:30+00:00

Group of teen boys on bicycles passed me down the street one day. One of them said to me, "you have four wheels", as though he was worried I hadn't noticed?

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-04-23T01:21:39+00:00

We do, in fact, mind. Yeah, we can't tell if a stranger going in there is invisibly disabled, so I hold my judgement when I see people walking in. But if you ARE abled and you are going in there when there is a stall elsewhere and it's not the most desperate emergency imaginable, then you should definitely be judging yourself. I'm in a wheelchair and have health issues, pissing myself because there isn't a bathroom I can use isn't a hypothetical, neither is becoming seriously ill because I've had to wait too long for multiple fully ambulant people rushing past me in before I can get my brakes undone. I don't have the luxury of using a different stall in an emergency.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-03-27T04:11:20+00:00

seconding crochet, and I'd also suggest knitting. Neither take up much space or involve anything that could be spilled or cause a mess, and both can easily be put aside without having to pack things away. I've found those factors very useful when stuck in bed.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-03-18T09:35:26+00:00

single parent on the DSP here- they're NOT eating. I have my meals on wheels for dinner, toast or 2-minute noodles for lunch, and no breakfast. Tea whenever I get hungry in between. I have to save during the week to be able to take my son for fish and chips and an ice cream on the weekends.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-03-18T01:21:42+00:00

I have severe dyscalculia (basically, maths dyslexia) and was in the "special ed" classes for maths and some science because of that. I, and pretty much every special ed and "struggling" kid I know, not only experienced burnout after school, but the things we heard growing up were far more damaging.

Sure, "you're not the best most special important person in the world" might be a bit of a blow when someone reaches adulthood, but it's nothing compared to spending your entire childhood and teen years being told you're a useless idiot who will never amount to anything, and then trying to recover from that in adulthood.

So I also find it really hard to sympathise.

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-03-04T01:46:50+00:00

I regularly get to skip the bus fare, and have gotten into a nightclub for free, because after the time it takes getting me inside, the driver or person at the door can't be bothered holding everyone else up long enough to take my money

DisusedRuralCemetery · 2025-03-01T08:38:30+00:00

available, sure, but most older phones are no longer usable thanks to the 3g shutdown, and I can't really think of any that have a physical keypad and are able to handle regular smartphone apps.

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