ah yes, I meant to include that one too!!

I have been reading back our messages, and found some stuff from when the DVP was a facebook group! she did this work for a long time, and spread that crip love and connectivity so far

there are SO many disabled folks who are experts in the NDIS and can provide context for this kind of blatent, inaccurate spin from non-disabled companies that commodify the most disabled people

and yes, they can brand themselves nfp providers, but they are huge - life without barriers and scope have close to a billion dollars a year revenue EACH

now they are lobbying their arses off, which is what this report is about, for more funding for their model, and less for support in the community

there is already plans to increase regulation, focused on what disabled people need, not more funding for big providers

they have been lobbying for years for more money, after getting a range of 'one off/temp' funding increases, without offering any changes to what they deliver to the most marginalised disabled people

these big providers haven't evolved their models for some of the most disabled people, still insisting on institutional places, known to hurt and kill those disabled people

www.ndiscommission.gov.au/media-centre...

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...

laverty was on the board - if he was an architect, I have spent the last decade flying spaceships

he heads up one of the big providers, that mostly does old fashioned supports like group homes and day programs, but also now has ghastly abusive services like Irabina

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09...

wild hey. bar is in hell

here's more of this event - 2020.bleedonline.net/program/asse...

so many! loved the Eater and Archer pieces you posted, but also this from the Assembly from the Future event. Alice's amazing organising skills are also something I've been thinking about

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/08/14/m...

Absolutely!!

was thinking of you and Jase, Kera, when I heard this news

‪I am amongst the most privileged in my communities, and acknowledge the massive privilege I have had in being able to manage to self-fund / cobble things together for all but one of the COPs I’ve attended. But a key reason I haven’t been in this space the last 2yrs is that issue.‬

(And that’s not even considering that for many of us disabled people the only way such a voyage is even slightly accessible is to travel business class - or pay several days of inflated COP accommodation extra so we can recover before the conference starts).

‪But what about civil society, disabled people, and Indigenous Peoples? ‬
‪The funding environment is so challenging as it is, and it is hard to justify to funders the importance of our attendance when it costs double and often more than other delegates.‬

‪I sincerely hope that there is going to be a massive dose of financing to ensure that Pacific Island states can show up in force. It is ridiculous that the states who are very literally on the front lines of climate change are routinely spread so thin across negotiations. But…‬