Answer: Australia – And we still call ourselves the ‘lucky country’. Yes lucky if you are not touched by disbaility. Otherwise you are regulated by government, the health services industry and health insurance as second class citizens.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme will change all of this and provide people with [...]
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Yesterday I attended the ‘Make it Real’ NDIS 2012 Rally at the Allphones Arena Sydney. It was wonderful to see so many with people with disabilities, their carers , professionals and other memers of the community come together and clearly say with one voice ‘NDIS – Make it real’.
IMHO helping people with [...]
Continue Reading →Following on reports of recruiters and companies recruiting staff requesting access to social media accounts including passwords (SMH). I have sat on both side of this one … I have worked in recruitment recruited for positions for myself and of course been on the recruitment roundabout … but I am really not a fan. If you are open and public [...]
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Today I was reading MamaMia on a post about feminism and it really got me thinking. The main point of the post was about women not identifying themselves as feminists and the problems associated with that.
As self-described “strident feminist” and my hero Caitlin Moran says in her book How to be a Woman:
“We need to reclaim the [...]
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Today I found a interesting survey completed in from a UK support and advocacy charity called Contact a Family called Forgotten Familes. According to their research families in the UK with disabled children felt excluded from society due to a shortage of services and negative attitudes. Sounds familiar …
Key Findings
Families with disabled children have the same hopes and [...]
Continue Reading →Hi Everyone … Sorry I have been away for alittle bit. This time of the year just gets soo hard and I have been under the pump with doing some work. I am really excited about 2012 and I hope that I will have some interesting announcements soon …
Anyway for today … yes I [...]
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Today I was just completing some random readings and I found a very interesting powerpoint on the Doctors Reform Society website by Dr Tracy Schrader called Future of the PBS in the Global Market (2003). Very interesting read but what I found very interesting was some facts that she had quoted about the pharmaceutical industry – revenue, [...]
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Before I start I know that this is going to be controversial … but hey … sometimes you need to be controversial to get people talking … and draw out problems in the system. Love to hear your opinions … including if you hate mine
… I have chosen a controversial topic this time. And before [...]
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The more I look into the Australian Health System … the more I get frustrated by the inequities. Sometimes I find it hard to believe what gets funding and what doesn’t. Like I have said before … I would like it that everyone would be covered for whatever health issue that they had … rich [...]
Continue Reading →In the best world … when it comes to Health cover you would hope that for everyone that they would be covered for whatever health issue that they had … rich or poor, whether it be treated by doctors, drugs in a hospital or by a allied heath professional in a private office or nurse in a [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I was intrigued by a story that I heard on the news. It was about a Lane Cove Resident who had attempted to block a development application from one of her neighbours that will block her solar panels … petty council dispute or is there something more there … is [...]
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In case you missed it here is the report by Amanda Hart on 6:30 with George Negus last night on the Productivity Report on Disability Care and Support.
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Today the Productivity Commission has released its final report into Disability Care and Support. As the final report has only just been released I have not yet had time to read all of the detail but I am sure to be writing more about this in the future.
From what I [...]
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