This is an example of the failure of #NDIS to adequately support the needs of participants. Faceless bureaucrats, never meeting the person, ignoring recommendations from experts, because it's 'not value for money'. The incredible stress of caregivers doesn't matter www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Decisions made by 'faceless people' in NDIS abandoning those in need, family says

Experts say the National Disability Insurance Scheme is failing people like Lucy, whose one-on-one care for severe disability has been deemed "not value for money".

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My book is making its way out into the world, word of mouth is alive! Wonderful reviews - 'From page 1, I found myself completely absorbed by this book; of Suchita's transformational quest to make the best of the cards life had given her.' Available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Booktopia

A textbook when I was studying environmental science in 1978 greatly affected my understanding of the limits to growth, written by this man. He's had to withstand big criticism, but hey he was unfortunately right. www.facebook.com/reel/1476845...

All this propaganda about the #ndis costing too much, when the flow of money isn't one way. Research shows for every $1 spent by govt, $2.25 returns to the economy. It creates jobs, it makes life easier & more productive for recipients. Stop blaming people with disability & look at Aukus, Defense

It's such a relief to hear basic common sense being applied to the functioning (or dysfunction) of our world, and what needs to change. Our current leaders are taking us to planetary and social apocolypse, here is finally a leader with clarity. www.facebook.com/share/r/1FV2...

Wow, Alcoa has been naughty enough for the WA Premier to criticise them! This makes me so angry. A measly fine! This destruction is not reversible, rehab of rare jarrah forest IS NOT POSSIBLE! Yet, carry on chaps, keep up the destruction. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Alcoa's green efforts dubbed 'disappointing' by WA premier after $55m payment

Roger Cook criticises Alcoa's environmental record for being "not at the level we expect", after the US mining giant agreed to pay $55 million for clearing a native jarrah forest in WA's south without...

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I'm thrilled and excited that after 15 years (off and on) work, my book 'Little Body Huge Life - Finding Freedom in Any Body', is going to be launched on March 7. Thank you to #castlemountmedia and the donors on my #gofundme for all your support bringing it to fruition.

This is a big worry. Minimal input from actual people, no medical input, limited appeal opportunities, sounds like no lessons learnt from #Robodebt. Anxiety, stress and limited assistance for the very people this is meant to help. The govt hasn't been listening. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul

Exclusive: Staff were told of major changes to the way NDIS funding and support plans will be made during a recent internal briefing

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Bringing us the reality that thousands, millions are already dealing with increased climate extremes. Devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: the people fleeing climate breakdown – in pictures

Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind

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At a time when humanity needs to unite like never before, many forces are working to divide us. We need to make systemic changes in how we function so we are not continuing to destroy our home, and this needs all of us. We can all play our part for the greater good, as the late Jane Goodall said.

Donut economics by Kate Raworth is the best model so far to map out the whole system changes needed to live on a healthy planet for the long term. Individual issues eg climate change can silo our attention when we need to change the whole system lnkd.in/eDXKEsZq

The new assessment model for NDIS has red flags - fitting the huge diversity of disabilities & their individual needs into a ticking box exercise is not needs based; not using the best evidence, from treating health professionals, makes it inadequate. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Algorithm to be used for NDIS plans

The government is using an ‘instrument’ designed by the University of Melbourne to reassess support payments for disabled people.

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While large companies stubbornly stick to continuing to make large profits from environmentally destructive actions and products, our earth is being poisoned and trashed, with no regard for our future survival. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Talks stall on world’s first plastic pollution treaty one day before deadline

Almost 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’

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Evil are those that choose their massive profits over the long term health of our planet. We are drowning in plastics but profits are more important www.facebook.com/share/p/171k...

I can so relate. If I'd known what was entailed in writing and publishing a book when I started 15 yrs ago I never would have started. But here I am, I kept plugging away, kept returning to it, and now I've just finished a pre-publishing edit, with the help of #CastleMountMedia. Publish next March

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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

I love the Nanas! bsky.app/profile/deni...

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OMG - watch this right now. Absolutely brilliant from the Nanas. Brilliant!!! #auspol

Flowering now in my garden, the West Australian native plant Templetonia retusa, also called Cockies' Tongue (Cockies short for Cockatoos), about 4cm, that survive tough conditions - poor soil, part shade, limestone, long hot summers, bringing joy and brightness.

Almost all of the thinking about how we operate on the planet is stuck in the past, which is resulting in the destruction of our environment that will be at the peril of all on planet earth. Great to see Donut Economics getting some traction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town

A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in Tomelilla

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It frustrates the hell out of me that we are so distracted by politics & bullshit, when we need to be united as humankind as never before to change our world systems of economics, manufacture, consumerism. Anyone who is still promoting economic growth doesn't get it. www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics

"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...

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A fringed lily from Western Australia to soothe you today.

An Australian wattle to brighten your day

Will the re-elected Labor government give priority to our environment? This what voters want! Approving the extension of the northwest shelf gas for 50 years, and further clearing of jarrah forest for mining are not! theconversation.com/5-things-we-...

5 things we need to see in Australia’s new nature laws

A group of prominent environmental scientists devised this list of 5 things we must see in Australia’s new national environmental laws, if we are to avoid calamity and hasten recovery.

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An excellent article with an outside view, of the West Australian unique Jarrah forest, and the peril it faces by continued expansion by Alcoa in a changing climate. Rehabilitation over many years has not managed to replace a forest ecosystem. It's a slow death apps.publicsource.org/alcoa-mines-...

Pittsburgh metals icon erodes rare Australian forest

Photos reveal extensive ecological damage to Australia’s Northern Jarrah Forest as Alcoa mining operations scar the earth. | Part One

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'Substandard' rehabilitation efforts after clearing Jarrah forest for aluminium mining should be a sound reason not to grant expansion of clearing, diminishing forest vulnerable to drying climate. Replanting trees is not the same as the complex ecosystem that is lost. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Inside Alcoa's plans to expand mining in the world's only jarrah forests

US aluminium giant Alcoa wants to expand mining operations in Western Australia's jarrah forests, setting the stage for a battle with environmentalists over the impact on wildlife and water quality. H...

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They want you to think that protecting nature will make us all poorer, sicker and sadder. It's a lie - as Costa Rica proves. The Central American country’s extraordinary push to protect its rainforests and nature made its people happier, healthier and wealthier. Here’s how. 🧵

He says it so clearly. We need to change our priorities.

The NDIA are removing vital supports while eligibility is reassessed, with poor communication. Now a review criticises their actions. Shades of #Robodebt. It's hugely stressful for participants, #ndia need to do much better for the vulnerable! It's their job! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Melbourne woman’s fight to keep NDIS support raises legal questions about agency’s ‘troubling’ processes

Tribunal decision for 54-year-old Veronica Stephan-Miller suggests onus of proof should be on NDIA, not recipient, before revoking benefits

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It feels awfully like more of the same with the changes to the #ndis. All without much input from participants, overbearing uncaring bureaucracy removing supports. Not fair. Open letter to the NDIA regarding procedural fairness in NDIS eligibility reassessments open.substack.com/pub/leakylif...

Open letter to the NDIA regarding procedural fairness in NDIS eligibility reassessments

Dear NDIA: Your current process is stacked against participants. Here's how to fix it.

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Poor Bali is inundated by plastic rubbish this time of year. It's time to stop treating our oceans as bottomless rubbish dumps and drastically cut back our plastic consumption. Anything produced needs its whole life cycle sorted - reused, recycled . Laws for plastics. www.news.com.au/travel/desti...

Julia Baird talks about grace in the US where public figures set a tone where denigration and abuse are acceptable, where kindness and civility are absent. Yet as Julia notices, all around were acts of kindness and care, same in most our lives. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Revenge is 'like Ritalin' in post-election America, but I saw signs of grace

All year, I had been looking forward to launching my book in a city that never forgets, never forgives, let alone never sleeps. When I arrived in Manhattan, it was obvious grace was in short supply.

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