I am highly functional within a limited set of actions. Step out of that box and I cease to function

That's just it. They've decided whether a thing can be done safely is absolutely irrelevant. They've done so since we flat out said "these specific measures will kill people in all these ways" in 2024. This has become their signature business as usual. Do they have your consent, #Australia?

There’s ppl on the NDIS for psychosocial conditions where if the supports are withdrawn they will be a threat themselves & others, costing millions in damages. Framing supports as only open to ppl with “profound disability” exposes the stereotypes and prejudices in public understanding of disability

Goodnight. #Auspol #NDIS #WarOnDisabledPeople

How about every Jonty AND every older Aussie who needs help with personal care AND community participation gets what they need, without copying or denying dignity? How about we treat dignity as a right? How about we remember that #EveryAustralianCounts? #NDIS #Auspol #SupportAtHome #AgedCarr

Don't you fucking dare pit one group of disabled Australians against another www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Do the government have no functioning memory of how appallingly inhumane and damaging Robodebt was? Or are they simply desperate to abrogate all responsibility for NDIS decision-making?

Could we just have a NDIS that doesn't spend half its budget trying to find ways not to provide services to people who need them, and just spending that money on the services?

Means testing the NDIS would punish people with disability for working. That’s not sustainability. That’s a step backwards. Read more: everyaustraliancounts.com.au/opinion/why-... #ProtectOurNDIS #EveryAustralianCounts

Everyone should read this before forming opinions on the #NDIS. It’s not just an intellectual question, it’s life and death. People have already died. Children have already died. Every dollar spent on NDIS returns $2.25 to the economy. NDIS is affordable, we just need tax reform. #AusPol

Probably missing from #NDIS integrity talk this week as Labor justifies harsh cuts: Any mention of that historical debt review or further details on the 24% of participant debts revoked. Friendly reminder: The lists don't solve this and participants have no review rights to dispute a debt. #Auspol

Instead of submitting evidence of their disability from doctors, participants will be interviewed by an assessor, who then feeds their findings into a computer program. That algorithm will then spit out a budget to be approved or rejected by an NDIS employee www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The question is not one of policy success or failure, but simply how many people will suffer catastrophic outcomes as a result of automated systems denying crucial supports and care

My submission to the #NDIS integrity inquiry was published today. My 16 recos address impacts of one-sided 'integrity' discourse and ask the Committee to place dignity and rights at the centre of its inquiry and proposed measures. Where are the crosshairs on Agency claims or practices? 🤷‍♀️ #Auspol

Not answered in any of Butler's consent-for-cuts media commentary: Exactly who he reckons should be defined as a National Priority Cohort for Foundational Supports. Of COURSE they won't be worse off sharing a capped $10 billion envelope with Thriving Kids ... over FIVE YEARS. #Auspol #NDIS

I am absolutely done with government + media punching down on autism with a tired narrative based on a decade of compromised data a.k.a the primary disability fallacy. Happy #AutismAwareness month, brace yourselves for more of it pre-budget. 😓 #Auspol #NDIS www.linkedin.com/posts/cat-wa...

Yet, just yesterday, the NDIA sent out a newsletter worded to implicitly frame those raising the same concerns about upcoming NDIS changes – with rules, policy + algorithms overseen by the SAME Department – as untrustworthy. #Auspol #NDIS #AgedCare #ADM www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Job providers are still refusing phone appts, forcing welfare recipients to travel. How bad does the fuel crisis need to get before g'ment considers suspending obligations?" Government says they take action against providers who do the wrong thing. Everyone, even the Ombudsman, knows this a lie

Good on Jarrod Sandwell-Hay (vice president of PWDA) serving it back to former chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth

My lawyer Nick Hanna (@nicholashanna1 on insta) + his colleagues have started a not-for-profit law centre Civil Liberties Defence Centre (@thecldc on insta) that will provide pro bono assistance to people facing legal issues like me. Please support them at cldc.org.au

How many of the 2000 are for the needs assessments (using a tweaked version of a tool not even the original version of which has been validated for all NDIS cohorts), including non-practitioner assessors? How many of the rest are in compliance? While we still don't have review rights for s45/s46?

The amount of disinfo allowed in political ads kn this country is soo fucking disgusting 🤬

A statement regarding recent contact from Queensland Police about my work.

This week has been a lot. Cannot thank you enough for the solidarity I've felt. Community is everything. 🖤🍉

And yes, you would think if the NDIA or Labor wanted to avoid Robodebt comparisons, they could have picked a more creative name than one plagiarised from Morrison’s “welfare cop” speech. formerministers.dss.gov.au/15909/media-...

I made a 26 page submission to the #NDIS Integrity inquiry <24hrs after contributions opened. Until that one is published, here is the sub I made on key integrity issues the week prior, before the current inquiry was announced. Follow-up re Crack Down on Fraud data lake use-cases in progress.

An FOI for docs re “how the NDIA could use Palantir's products such as Foundry for fraud detection” granted extension... Because: a) media attention b) “Initial searches have shown that several areas may hold documents...the volume of material is not yet fully known and may be substantial.” 👀

I do have a second job. We’re still struggling. There’s a limit to how much a sole parent with disability can work

Any article that talks about unemployment or underemployment in Australia and doesn’t talk about disability has a huge blindspot. Or is just advertorial trash like this.

So, @pennyallmanpayne.com & @antipovertycentre.org wrote to the government, urging them to stop forcing welfare recipients into these stupid activities during a fuel crisis. Government response? "Just contact your job provider" Story here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Gina's mate wasn't the only one who proposed an inquiry into #NDIS integrity this week. My suggested terms of reference are not unreasonable. But somehow, I fear they'll still be absent from the scope Labor has asked the NDIS JSC to report on by June while Redbridge narratives live on. #Auspol

What do you call a democracy which refuses an ‘out of scope’ submission on a Bill directly impacting the author, because it addresses only specific parts, opposing them in the absence of amendments to the effect of the ‘out of scope’ recommendations made? Asking for a citizen. #Auspol #NDIS

Could the media stop with this bullshit? CPI adjustments to poverty payments are not a "cash boost" and it's a disgusting insult to say so. Try listening to people forced to live below the poverty line for a change instead of regurgitating Labor spin. (Fixed it for you, btw.)

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See: The Jonty example we all raised hell about in Oct 2025 (as I did in Aug 2024 for an earlier example). Retained in 'Your Plan' OG through publication of TWO further updates in December. How DARE Jonty need personal care AND community access support. #Auspol #NDIS @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social

There are legitimate problems with the NDIS but places like News Corp and the AFR consistently want to focus on stripping away the crucial part where it actually helps people in a way they can only get away with calling for after years of disinformation and fear mongering

Here’s me on the media’s constant disinformation regarding the NDIS and it’s recipients, as well as what would happen if the NDIS worked the way places like the AFR keep demanding

Better add these to the register too. #Auspol #SouthAustralia

Just a reminder - while NDIS subsidies are allegedly 'unsustainable' fossil fuel subsidies grew by 9.6% in the last year to $16.3bn. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

I really do encourage everyone to read this if they can. It’s worse than I thought it would be. The decision, not my piece. Although come to think of it everything I write is worse than I thought it would be.

I mean, come on. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...

The NACC report is astonishing for just how many non-sequiturs, excuses and naive assumptions can be packed into 455 pages. The deputy commissioner who authored it is not a judge, unlike Catherine Holmes. And it shows. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/n...

This is such a disingenuous process and despicable outcome

This is not the full-stop many wanted. The process has not restored the trust in government that was so fundamentally broken by robodebt. “Like no accountability, no justice, no nothing.”

Every meeting and piece of advice should be contemporaneously documented. If it's not then an adverse inference should be allowed to be read into it. No taking their word for it after the fact. I don't care if everything takes longer. They don't have the trust of the public to act in good faith.

Jenny Miller, the mother of Rhys Cauzzo, who took his own life in January 2017 while facing Centrelink debts of about $17,000, said the report was a “massive letdown” and conceded her fight for accountability and justice “just pretty much stops from today”.

Robodebt victim Felicity de Somerville labels the NACC finding “grossly disappointing” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/919615...

"We know that the powerful will never be held accountable because they've built and protected this system. The overall system has been built to punish the poor and protect the powerful and it's still happening" New from @artistaffame.bsky.social ko-fi.com/post/The-sys...

I encourage Robodebt victims to have a chat with Dan 👇