El Gibbs
@bluntshovels.bsky.social
Grumpy optimist. Writes about the NDIS and disability. Wiradjuri country
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The 87-year-old woman was born deaf and has spent the past two years living in a nursing home in Brisbane without Auslan support after she was diagnosed with dementia.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Deaf residents in aged care left without basic support services
One Deaf woman living with dementia has been without basic care services for two years. Advocates warn her story represents a much larger problem.
www.abc.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The 87-year-old woman was born deaf and has spent the past two years living in a nursing home in Brisbane without Auslan support after she was diagnosed with dementia.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Listen to George Megalogenis, @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social and I discuss if Australia is entering a new political era. With record electoral shifts reshaping class, gender, race, and power dynamics, what does the future hold for our democracy?
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Listen to George Megalogenis, @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social and I discuss if Australia is entering a new political era. With record electoral shifts reshaping class, gender, race, and power dynamics, what does the future hold for our democracy?
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Two podcasts that were released this week (involving me!) for those keen for some content for your ears π§
First up, a podcast from our "A New Australian Politics β Rupture or Realignment" event in September, funded by @auspsa.bsky.social and @uts-sps.bsky.social.
pod.link/1760672339/e...
First up, a podcast from our "A New Australian Politics β Rupture or Realignment" event in September, funded by @auspsa.bsky.social and @uts-sps.bsky.social.
pod.link/1760672339/e...
pod.link
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Two podcasts that were released this week (involving me!) for those keen for some content for your ears π§
First up, a podcast from our "A New Australian Politics β Rupture or Realignment" event in September, funded by @auspsa.bsky.social and @uts-sps.bsky.social.
pod.link/1760672339/e...
First up, a podcast from our "A New Australian Politics β Rupture or Realignment" event in September, funded by @auspsa.bsky.social and @uts-sps.bsky.social.
pod.link/1760672339/e...
I had planned to flick over when NDIS estimates is done, but will there be anything to watch!!
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I had planned to flick over when NDIS estimates is done, but will there be anything to watch!!
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REALLY chuffed to be invited to @parismarx.com's incredible @techwontsave.us pod to talk about not just the climate harms we face from an uncontrolled data centre expansion but the way companies enacting it seem to think they're cape-wearing climate superheroes -->>>
techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
REALLY chuffed to be invited to @parismarx.com's incredible @techwontsave.us pod to talk about not just the climate harms we face from an uncontrolled data centre expansion but the way companies enacting it seem to think they're cape-wearing climate superheroes -->>>
techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
techwontsave.us/episode/304_...
I know I am exhausted and sick atm, but reading the 'progress' report on the disability royal commission is utterly shattering. a new plan and the ndis fraud work. that's it. 10,000 stories and 4.5 years.
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
www.health.gov.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I know I am exhausted and sick atm, but reading the 'progress' report on the disability royal commission is utterly shattering. a new plan and the ndis fraud work. that's it. 10,000 stories and 4.5 years.
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
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COMING DECEMBER 2025 #PoveratiXmas
Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks
Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
Start prepping those wishlists and setting up paylinks
Get ready to share widely and hopefully some Xmas Angels will make some wishes come true!
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
there was a visit from one of the neighbourhood cats this morning, and Rowan wants you all to know that she was very brave and protected the house with her very puffy tail and hisses from behind the flywire backdoor
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
there was a visit from one of the neighbourhood cats this morning, and Rowan wants you all to know that she was very brave and protected the house with her very puffy tail and hisses from behind the flywire backdoor
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Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his momβs fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
βTheyβre failing all of us,β his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
βTheyβre failing all of us,β his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Childβs Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his momβs fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his momβs fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
βTheyβre failing all of us,β his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
βTheyβre failing all of us,β his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
more info on the new NDIS legislation - includes most of the already flagged a year ago measures for the Commission, including consultation. focus on giving the Commission the powers to act that other regulators have (WILD 'oversight')
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025
Helpful information
Text of bill
First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This...
www.aph.gov.au
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
more info on the new NDIS legislation - includes most of the already flagged a year ago measures for the Commission, including consultation. focus on giving the Commission the powers to act that other regulators have (WILD 'oversight')
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
"Fixing the main road and infrastructure isn't on their priority list, but taking down a free shop is."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Government threatens to shut down 'illegal' street charity
Queensland's transport department has threatened to penalise residents who set up street-side charity cupboards without filling in the requisite paperwork.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Fixing the main road and infrastructure isn't on their priority list, but taking down a free shop is."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong"
"Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated."
essential reading on Alice from Rebecca Cokley
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
"Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated."
essential reading on Alice from Rebecca Cokley
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong"
"Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated."
essential reading on Alice from Rebecca Cokley
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
"Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated."
essential reading on Alice from Rebecca Cokley
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
new NDIS legislation due today, focused on increased powers for the regulator
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Labor boosts fines by 40 times, adds jail time for βshonkyβ NDIS providers
New powers will give the NDIS commissioner discretion to block ads that falsely claim participants can use their funding to pay for luxuries such as cruises.
www.smh.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
new NDIS legislation due today, focused on increased powers for the regulator
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
ah yes, I meant to include that one too!!
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
ah yes, I meant to include that one too!!
I am talking (remotely) at the big provider conference this afternoon, and you can imagine that I may be a tad grumpy
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I am talking (remotely) at the big provider conference this afternoon, and you can imagine that I may be a tad grumpy
I have been reading back our messages, and found some stuff from when the DVP was a facebook group! she did this work for a long time, and spread that crip love and connectivity so far
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I have been reading back our messages, and found some stuff from when the DVP was a facebook group! she did this work for a long time, and spread that crip love and connectivity so far
there are SO many disabled folks who are experts in the NDIS and can provide context for this kind of blatent, inaccurate spin from non-disabled companies that commodify the most disabled people
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
there are SO many disabled folks who are experts in the NDIS and can provide context for this kind of blatent, inaccurate spin from non-disabled companies that commodify the most disabled people
and yes, they can brand themselves nfp providers, but they are huge - life without barriers and scope have close to a billion dollars a year revenue EACH
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
and yes, they can brand themselves nfp providers, but they are huge - life without barriers and scope have close to a billion dollars a year revenue EACH
now they are lobbying their arses off, which is what this report is about, for more funding for their model, and less for support in the community
there is already plans to increase regulation, focused on what disabled people need, not more funding for big providers
there is already plans to increase regulation, focused on what disabled people need, not more funding for big providers
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
now they are lobbying their arses off, which is what this report is about, for more funding for their model, and less for support in the community
there is already plans to increase regulation, focused on what disabled people need, not more funding for big providers
there is already plans to increase regulation, focused on what disabled people need, not more funding for big providers
they have been lobbying for years for more money, after getting a range of 'one off/temp' funding increases, without offering any changes to what they deliver to the most marginalised disabled people
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
they have been lobbying for years for more money, after getting a range of 'one off/temp' funding increases, without offering any changes to what they deliver to the most marginalised disabled people
these big providers haven't evolved their models for some of the most disabled people, still insisting on institutional places, known to hurt and kill those disabled people
www.ndiscommission.gov.au/media-centre...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
www.ndiscommission.gov.au/media-centre...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
Record $2.5 million penalty imposed on NDIS provider for failing to keep participants safe | NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
www.ndiscommission.gov.au
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
these big providers haven't evolved their models for some of the most disabled people, still insisting on institutional places, known to hurt and kill those disabled people
www.ndiscommission.gov.au/media-centre...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
www.ndiscommission.gov.au/media-centre...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
laverty was on the board - if he was an architect, I have spent the last decade flying spaceships
he heads up one of the big providers, that mostly does old fashioned supports like group homes and day programs, but also now has ghastly abusive services like Irabina
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...
he heads up one of the big providers, that mostly does old fashioned supports like group homes and day programs, but also now has ghastly abusive services like Irabina
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...
Jadon wouldn't sit on a cushion, so staff in 'Severe Behaviour' shirts stepped in to force him
Children with autism spent hours with staff in padded rooms, where they were sometimes sat on and held down by adults as part of a controversial NDIS-funded therapy.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
laverty was on the board - if he was an architect, I have spent the last decade flying spaceships
he heads up one of the big providers, that mostly does old fashioned supports like group homes and day programs, but also now has ghastly abusive services like Irabina
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...
he heads up one of the big providers, that mostly does old fashioned supports like group homes and day programs, but also now has ghastly abusive services like Irabina
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...
this interview, and the subsequent reporting around it, was absolutely infuriating. any other sector's big business lobby wouldn't get this kind of uncritical, uninformed, wildly inaccurate coverage, yet disabled peoples' essential services do [little π§΅]
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
NDIS described as 'trainwreck' - ABC listen
A market failure is happening now in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with many not-for-profit providers heading to insolvency.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
this interview, and the subsequent reporting around it, was absolutely infuriating. any other sector's big business lobby wouldn't get this kind of uncritical, uninformed, wildly inaccurate coverage, yet disabled peoples' essential services do [little π§΅]
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
wild hey. bar is in hell
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
wild hey. bar is in hell
