S|AM Connor
@criprights.bsky.social
human + disability rights activist | cofounder bolshy divas | zinester | social media assassin | cripple | disability consultant | views are my own | AM not PM
www.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?
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One 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...
Donate to Disabled Cancer Survivor Homeless due to DV, organized by Finn Luka
My 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
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"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...
What 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...
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When 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...
‘I would not do it again’: KPMG whistleblower reveals toll of going public
The former consulting executive reported that the firm had used confidential information to win work, resulting in a major scandal.
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Please 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...
National Disability Insurance Scheme bill requires further work - ACBC MediaBlog
The 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...
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Watching 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...
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… | ...
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...
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This 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
Jillian 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.
That 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...
Bondi hero who tackled shooter suffered two gunshot wounds
The hero who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters has been identified as a father-of-two.
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DéLana 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...
Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club): Fiction
Fiction
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Hilarious that Netflix is screening a bunch of promo fireplace videos while Australia is largely on fire.
Please 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
Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
On 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...
This isn't the first time moms have been blamed for their kids' autism
One of the earliest theories of autism is centered on “refrigerator mothers.” Echoes of it can be found in plans to Make America Healthy Again.
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***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
"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...
Calls for change after Qantas refuses to fly British woman with mobility scooter due to its battery
As airlines toughen rules around lithium batteries due to fire danger, disability advocates call for clearer accessibility standards and more consistency between carriers
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This 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.
Disability modelling agency boss pocketing money she could use to pay her models
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Kirk 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.
Please 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.
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I 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.
More 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.
I may have lost my shit on LinkedIn a little. BEHOLD. www.linkedin.com/posts/samant...
It’s masterful, really, watching the NDIS 2.0 playbook being rolled out. | Samantha Connor AM
It’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...
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So 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
David Pocock@davidpocock.bsky.social · 12mo agoConcerning reports the unreleased National Climate Risk Assessment is “dire” and “diabolical”. It maps what the people & places we love stand to lose from climate change. We should know this before the govt sets our 2035 emissions target Release it now. www.afr.com/policy/energ...
Why 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
