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Sicknote Sunak
Rishi Sunak is the Prime Minister of Britain. He is the wealthiest person ever to be part of a British government, never mind a Prime Minister. A lot of people try to paint him as gold digger. You see, he married into a wealthy family who owned an Indian tech company worth over $8 billion.…
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The Grass is Greener …
I was lucky enough to be in Scotland and England this last fortnight. As you do when you go overseas you tend to compare your lifestyle with the country you are visiting. Whether it’s the weather (it was cold and wet), the cost of living (God it’s expensive) or if you have a disability, the…
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HELLLLLLOOOOO!
What is the one thing that people with a disability or people who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing hate the most as a collective? I reckon it’s waking up each day and knowing that at some time and some place today that society has forgotten us. Not deliberately, of course, but simply through ignorance and a…
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Mind F@#k
In 2019 I returned to the now defunct role of National Disability Coordination Officer (NDCO) with the Centre of Disability Studies. In all I spent 14 years in this role with three different hosts. It was a fantastic role where I could focus on accessibility and influence Government policy around disability access. This could be…
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The Rise and Rise of Artificial Intelligence !!
Who remembers WALL-E. That lovable robot in the 2008 movie of the same name. WALL-E had been designed as a sort of waste disposal unit. He developed feelings and emotions and fell in love with EVE, the Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator. They had an electric kiss and more or less saved the world. Artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Do They Know It’s Xmas Time ..
… It’s Christmas time, there’s no need to be afraidAt Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade … And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joyThrow your arms around the world at Christmas time … But say a prayer, Pray for the other onesAt Christmas time it’s hard, but when…
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Tricks Hearing People Play
Australia, and indeed the world, is not designed for deaf people and it isn’t designed for people with a disability either. Sometimes I think that hearing people want the world to remain the same. For whatever reason some hearing people want to maintain their control over deaf people. They have little tricks to maintain that…
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Count Me In!
The very first Rebuttal released bemoaned the lack of Deaf CEOs at our Deaf Societies. We argued that Deaf people had lived experience and the skills to be able to lead our Deaf Societies from top to bottom. It was argued that expecting Deaf people to compete on merit for upper management positions, such as…
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From a Parent of a Deaf Child
This article has been submitted by a Parent of a Deaf Child. I am sure it will resonate with many parents who have Deaf children or children with disabilities. It reminds us an again, that Medical Models have limits, can traumatise and often have one fundamental thing missing – Lived Experience. I thank the parent…
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C’est La Vie
Life is funny and sometimes a little cruel. I was back working in the Deaf sector for the first time in over 2 decades. I had worked in the hearing disability sector for all that time. Successfully, I might add. In those two decades I like to think that I opened a few doors for…
The Rebuttal 