The musings of an Aussie viewing the World waist high .... from a wheelchair
It has being very much a limbo time for me. December was a hard month. January is looking brighter; but I am waiting for some dots to connect. I’m waiting for a space with a new specialist. Looks like I’ll be waiting till May, which kind of means that I can’t really start the rebuilding [...]
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Ok so a few days ago I promised that I’d give you my top five things I want to be different for people with disability in 5 years time. There are of course more than 5, but here’s my five. I want the assumption that I (or anyone) needs a carer with them to stop. [...]
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Yesterday NSW had an election. It was a landslide. that many others will no doubt talk of for many days to come. Picking up on a post from Mary over at HAT, yes I think she might be right. From what I saw in the literature, there was a higher number of “baseline” accessible venues. [...]
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BBC News – One in ten ‘cannot use London Tube or buses’. The study claimed: Only 10 of London’s 270 Tube stations are completely step-free all the way from street level to train. Just one third of London’s 300 rail stations have step-free access from street to platform. While all London’s buses now have ramps, [...]
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The 2010 Don’t DIS My ABILITY Campaign Has Kicked Off!. Enjoy! I’ll probably write more about this as the month moves forward. Possibly Related Posts: The kindness of strangers On his OWN: Zach Anner As the dust settles Quote: may I be Changes at the Commission and a point on making arguments
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While the announcement itself is good, I’m personally a little bit disappointed that this is the first comment I have heard from Jan Mclucas; our newly minted Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilitiesty and Carers. a couple of things to notice; Despite the wording of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of catalogue on People [...]
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The ironic thing is that according to this and the accessible bus timetable for the inner west of Sydney on a Saturday I could probably get to lunch in Melbourne some 963 km away faster than I can travel from outside a depot next door up the road to lunch 4kms away. To the extent [...]
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