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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jan 27

Dear Community

I said I had an announcement - this is it!

A FREE activism course for disabled folk. Only cost is a subscription to Disability Busters!

The course starts in March.

We need to organise, activate and fight back. Let's do this thing!

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SAVE THE DATE:
CRIP COLLEGE '25

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Learn disability rights, pride & activism

Interactive and creative focus
Only cost: Disability Busters subscription
($5.90/month OR $64.90 per year)
Launching March 9th, 2025

Sundays 1-3PM (March-May)
Online via Zoom

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 6d

On the echoes of refrigerator mothers in MAHA policy: Tiffany Hammond @fidgetsandfries.bsky.social "sees the focus on Tylenol and vaccines not only as a way to blame moms, but as a way to distract from Trump’s cuts to the services and supports families like hers need."

19thnews.org/2025/10/refr...

This isn't the first time moms have been blamed for their kids' autism

One of the earliest theories of autism is centered on “refrigerator mothers.” Echoes of it can be found in plans to Make America Healthy Again.

19thnews.org

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 8d

***PLEASE SHARE***

Tomorrow!

One year on from the NDIS cuts - what’s the impact and what next? Community forum (online) Fri 3 Oct, 12:00–2:00pm AEST. Story-sharing + expert panel.

Register: events.humanitix.com/community-forum-ndis-cuts #NDIS #DisabilityRights #AusPol #StopNDISCuts #SaveOurNDIS

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Jane Doe, Pretty Hate Machine @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 12d

#AusLaw #NDIS #disability
Remembering @criprights.bsky.social

S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Dec 20

Guess what I've done for the last twelve hours?

I've worked for Jetstar.

You know, the people who discriminated against me this week.

Spoiler: They don't actually know I'm working for them.

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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 12d

"Erin Turner Manners, a senior solicitor at the Justice and Equity Centre, said airlines have obligations under discrimination and consumer law but this hasn’t prevented discrimination and poor customer experiences." #auslaw
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Calls for change after Qantas refuses to fly British woman with mobility scooter due to its battery

As airlines toughen rules around lithium batteries due to fire danger, disability advocates call for clearer accessibility standards and more consistency between carriers

www.theguardian.com

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 14d

This NDIS registered provider (the govt says that registration will ‘keep us safe’) wants to be famous.

Well, let’s meet Monique, who underpays and exploits disabled people through her NDIS registered modelling agency, Diversity Models.

9now.nine.com.au/a-current-af...

Make her famous.

Disability modelling agency boss pocketing money she could use to pay her models

9now.nine.com.au

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 14d

SHARE SIGN UP GET IN FAST

THIS IS AWESOME events.humanitix.com/community-fo...

Community Forum: NDIS Cuts One Year On

NDIS cuts are harming disabled people and our supporters. Join us for a forum to learn what's happening and how you can be prepared and take action.

events.humanitix.com

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 27d

Kirk shooter is rather unsurprisingly not trans, nor Black, and comes from a nice white Republican background.

Watch that uncomfortable silence grow, between the cracks of the Horst Wesseling.

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 28d

Please sign and share!

chng.it/JV9WQDTjBZ

Sign the Petition

Replace Dr Mike Freelander as Chair of the Thriving Kids inquiry

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Sep 4

Please sign and share:

www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

To help clarify this part of NDIS complexity.

New framework plans are yet to be introduced.
When this happens NDIA will, by law, be able to restrict a participant’s information that can be considered by the assessor.

e-petitions

www.aph.gov.au

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Aug 20

I hope Mark Butler MP was prepared, post his National Press Club of Australia speech, for the wrath of millions of disabled Australians to be rained upon the heads of he and his colleagues.

Because after that shitshow, it’s coming. Nothing surer.

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Aug 17

More protest in the streets and chanting. It’s not midnight, so it’s probably not Nazis.

It’s cold and it seems like a good idea to stay inside and warm.

S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Aug 15

I may have lost my shit on LinkedIn a little.

BEHOLD.

www.linkedin.com/posts/samant...

It’s masterful, really, watching the NDIS 2.0 playbook being rolled out. | Samantha Connor AM

It’s masterful, really, watching the NDIS 2.0 playbook being rolled out. We are all in crisis and so sick of the NDIS being so final season Game of Thrones that we are are almost too distracted to not...

www.linkedin.com

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · Aug 11

So the gov more secretive than the pathological liars, aren’t realising a report described as dire, diabolical & extremely confronting.
“heat-related fatalities, detailed suburb mapping of coastal inundation from sea level rises & shocking forecasts of impacts on the agricultural sector.”

#Auspol

Article excerpt
A major reason for the hesitation to release the assessment is related to
the budgetary implications of the associated adaptation measures
required by the government, which are expected to be severe, the
sources said.
The report contains "extremely concerning" mapping of the impacts of
coastal inundation within five kilometres of the shoreline, especially in
areas of North Queensland, as well as major drought risks in the south-
west of the continent, according to sources with knowledge of the
analysis.
It also outlines "extremely shocking" implications for major industries,
including agriculture and fisheries.
The delay comes as Labor prepares to set a 2035 emissions reduction
target, which it will need to take to the next United Nations climate
summit in Brazil in November. The decision is expected in the coming
weeks, following advice from the Climate Change Authority.

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jul 31

Why do we say people are brainy when we think they are clever?

I mean, it’s offal. We don’t say we are livery.

For that matter - we don’t say our skin is SKINNY.

Sticks aren’t naturally sticky.

Hair is by nature hairy.

WHY DO WE DO THIS

NOSY
HANDSY
FOOTY

whyyyyy

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jul 22

An Aboriginal flag with a tree superimposed on the top - Gelliplate print

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jul 21

We have rights.

And nobody is allowed to take them away from us.

We fight back.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgQn...

Rights Under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD)

YouTube video by DARU

www.youtube.com

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jul 19

Action for Public Housing is one of several groups rallying at Town Hall on Saturday to call for an immediate end of police responding to mental health crisis cases, and the introduction of mental health-first responder programs in their place.

www.starobserver.com.au/news/communi...

Community Groups To Rally Following Death Of Gay Man In Police Custody - Star Observer

Community groups are calling for the end of police as first responders in mental health crises following the death of gay man Collin Burling.

www.starobserver.com.au

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is why you dont call NSW police on community. www.starobserver.com.au/news/communi...

Ever.

Community Groups To Rally Following Death Of Gay Man In Police Custody - Star Observer

Community groups are calling for the end of police as first responders in mental health crises following the death of gay man Collin Burling.

www.starobserver.com.au

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is why you dont call NSW police on community. www.starobserver.com.au/news/communi...

Ever.

Community Groups To Rally Following Death Of Gay Man In Police Custody - Star Observer

Community groups are calling for the end of police as first responders in mental health crises following the death of gay man Collin Burling.

www.starobserver.com.au

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jul 14

On university costs, as with Defence, the ALP has decided that Scott Morrison should be the one setting policy

Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · Jul 14

Turns out cost of higher education probably is a deterrent to accessing it, despite Labor pretending it isn’t.

Insane that under a Labor government an arts degree cost $50K, law $100K.

Francis Markham @francismarkham.bsky.social · Jul 13

This seems bad for Australian society.

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jul 12

I can’t help but look at her and shriek with laughter. It’s so strange <3

She doesn’t mind my weirdness x

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jul 11

Smitten has had blood tests done and they have hilariously shaved her neck and now she looks like she has had a tasty cat sized bite taken out of her.

It is most disconcerting.

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Cat Walker @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social · Jul 7

Tribunal rips NDIA to shreds in two decisions.

NDIA, rather than contritely implementing said feedback, applies to refer both to the GAP.

Best interests of the child, and all. /s

#NDIS #Auspol #AusLaw #AusLegal

It would appear that, since this article, the NDIA has... | Cat Walker

It would appear that, since this article, the NDIA has... *checks notes* ...applied to refer BOTH of these Tribunal decisions to the Guidance and Appeals Panel. Wonder where consideration of the Tr...

www.linkedin.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 4

“This case illustrates that there are situations where the agency does genuinely do the wrong thing and does seem to have it out for individuals. So it is incredibly scary for participants”

Seems that the #robodebt culture has permeated NDIA. #auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme

Internal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · Jul 5

And then the bill passed.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Jul 3

Karma hit hard. Then she deactivated her Twitter account.

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