Luke, cool
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Live on Yuggera land, Australia.
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Photography, travel, food, safe communities, safe planet.
Be kind, be cool. Always look left.
Photos are mine unless otherwise attributed.
She/her.
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“The Department of Social Services has accepted all the recommendations except the one that calls for amendments to key child support and family tax laws that would strengthen compliance”
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
“The Department of Social Services has accepted all the recommendations except the one that calls for amendments to key child support and family tax laws that would strengthen compliance”
Stickers work a treat to identify luggage. Ta.
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Stickers work a treat to identify luggage. Ta.
You may. Very much Hoooooo justified here.
October 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
You may. Very much Hoooooo justified here.
How bloody marvellous. Congrats and go you good thing.
Love and hugs to all your fam and peeps.
Love and hugs to all your fam and peeps.
October 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
How bloody marvellous. Congrats and go you good thing.
Love and hugs to all your fam and peeps.
Love and hugs to all your fam and peeps.
Was there an entry fee for this "memorial service?"
September 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Was there an entry fee for this "memorial service?"
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Like, this is just an extremely abbreviated recent history.
![Screenshot of article excerpt that reads:
What Butler could not do in his press club speech, or subsequently, is guarantee children will not be negatively affected by agency decisions in advance of any rollout. He told the audience that any child “enrolled in the NDIS now – or who become enrolled before that time [2027] – will remain on the scheme, subject to its usual arrangements, including reassessments”.
These “reassessments” have been turbocharged after a significant investment in the agency’s access and eligibility team. The Saturday Paper has previously revealed the agency was sending out thousands of eligibility reassessment letters suggesting people may no longer have a right to support, and demanding further unspecified evidence within 28 days. This process resulted in people being wrongfully removed from the scheme. Some who were able to appeal managed to be reinstated.
The Saturday Paper later revealed the agency relented under pressure to extend this timeframe to 90 days but, under the direction of then chief executive Rebecca Falkingham, used a deliberately bastardised version of this process to kick a disability advocate off the scheme without evidence. The advocate was later reinstated with an extra disability recognised under the act.
Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service says these abuses of power are becoming more common and materialise in both policy decisions taken by the agency and in a new flex of its power made with the backing of legislative reforms that began in October last year.
“More matters are being met with intransigent conduct by the NDIA at the Tribunal, resulting in an increase in other funded advocacy services seeking our assistance for support with their work,” the service says in a report obtained by The Saturday Paper.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y5jtxfxnv4exgujkdbmy43jp/bafkreihfmbucurypdknd2whv2hoxjakm2dipl3eekcwhxbxsnj267nt32u@jpeg)
August 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Like, this is just an extremely abbreviated recent history.