disability and media

Language matters: offspring

September 5, 2011

“The Home Truths report focuses on the experiences of three groups of women in the housing market: single mothers, women over 50 and elderly carers of disabled offspring” I’m convinced the report is right and makes a valid case for “housing first” but calling any group of people, offspring? Please SMH, you know how to [...]

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going gaga

July 15, 2011

No not me. Sydney. Lady Gaga came to town. She came, kids screamed. Otherwise serious “news magazine” tv hosts swooned. And GaGa (whose name is apparently Stefani Joanne) sat in a wheelchair during one of her performances. The fact that it was in Sydney’s Town Hall is an irony that doesn’t escape me (for those [...]

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On his OWN: Zach Anner

April 7, 2011

This guy is really funny, and smart. I know. I watched one or two of the episodes of the Oprah Winfrey “reality show” he was on. He clearly has an interest in a broader range of issues than his own Cerebral Palsy. Although quite open it seems to owning up to it — like me [...]

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More than tolerence

February 9, 2011

Stella’s editorial on Ramp Up is spot on. We tolerate being just tolerated. We talk about respect, we might ask for it. We don’t expect equality . Therefore logically we don’t get it as often as we tell ourselves privately we should. We tolerate really bad weather. We tolerate that annoying person who sits next [...]

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my take on the Brisbane floods – a need met and posturing

January 25, 2011

I’m not going to start with an apology for my silence. I’m just going to start. I’m going to start with some good news amid chaos. There have been two simultaneous tragedies recently on the world stage. Both have caught my attention, for very different reasons. The floods. The assassination attempt of Gabby Giffords.  Both [...]

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A rolling Moss

December 28, 2010

I’ve been listening to podcasts of Late Night Live. Philip Adams and I would probably not agree on much, but I do find him fascinating as a thinker and as an exposure to other good thinkers. The other day, I was listening to him talking to Bill Moss, who has a rare dystrophy, who runs [...]

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equal anti-discrimination human rights please Senator?

December 2, 2010

Gay rights to marriage is the topic de jour nationally at the moment and we are debating it for good or ill. That’s ok, great in fact. A New South Wales Senator Doug Cameron from Australia’s house of review made an an interesting couple of comments in an interview in favour of what “we” are [...]

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a handicap on language

August 9, 2010

Update 7:15 pm Since linking to the news piece it has been updated to include comments of a similar nature to mine regarding Mr Peacock’s comments from another disability organisation here in Australia This election has been scareingly un-inspiring this time around. There doesn’t seem to be a good place for a thinker more interested [...]

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values added

November 4, 2009

Interesting take on “assisted suicide” as a care prevention option. This couple were apparently in good health but precisely because they were in good health now was the time of their choosing; “Mr and Mrs Milner’s daughter Chrissy said her parents had been in good health but did not want to get to a stage [...]

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A thank you

July 30, 2009

I just want to say thank you to everyone for their interest in my small contribution to this discussion about Dancing with the Stars. It will be interesting to see the impact that these discussion on and off air will have on the show. I want to make one thing clear. It wasn’t the low [...]

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