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The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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.

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...

Image Description (alt text): A teal background graphic with the DPAC Australia logo (black triangle, white letters, “AUSTRALIA” on the right edge) in the top left. Large white heading to the right reads “What Can I Expect?” Below, bold white text says: “Attendees will have the opportunity to share their stories in a peer led discussion about;” followed by a white bulleted list: “group homes/forced shared supports; restrictive funding periods; support lists & ‘primary disability’ rules; funding cuts and changes; removal of people (especially kids & women) from the NDIS.” Further down, bold white subheading: “Our expert panel will be talking about:” with bulleted list: “assessment; appeals; eligibility reassessments; evidence; and self-advocacy.” Image Description (alt text): A teal background graphic with the DPAC Australia logo in the top left. Bold white heading reads “Speakers and Panelists.” Below, four illustrated cartoon-style portraits are arranged in two columns, each with names and affiliations beside them: Naomi Anderson: illustrated with short spiky grey hair and glasses, labelled “(Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service).” Peter Gregory: illustrated with short hair, Image Description (alt text): A digital graphic with a teal background. In the top left, the DPAC Australia logo: a black downward-pointing triangle with rounded corners, containing the white letters “DPAC,” with the word “AUSTRALIA” set diagonally along the triangle’s right edge. To the right, bold white heading text reads “Community Forum.” Below, in purple, “NDIS Cuts One Year On.” Underneath is the meta line: “Fri 3 Oct | 12:00–2:00 pm AEST | Online.” In the centre, bold white text says “Share your story. Get informed. Push back!” At the bottom: “Disabled People Against Cuts (Australia). Register on Humanitix: link in text.”

Image Description (alt text): A teal background graphic with the DPAC Australia logo (black triangle, white letters, “AUSTRALIA” on the right edge) in the top left. Large white heading to the right reads “What Can I Expect?” Below, bold white text says: “Attendees will have the opportunity to share their stories in a peer led discussion about;” followed by a white bulleted list: “group homes/forced shared supports; restrictive funding periods; support lists & ‘primary disability’ rules; funding cuts and changes; removal of people (especially kids & women) from the NDIS.” Further down, bold white subheading: “Our expert panel will be talking about:” with bulleted list: “assessment; appeals; eligibility reassessments; evidence; and self-advocacy.” Image Description (alt text): A teal background graphic with the DPAC Australia logo in the top left. Bold white heading reads “Speakers and Panelists.” Below, four illustrated cartoon-style portraits are arranged in two columns, each with names and affiliations beside them: Naomi Anderson: illustrated with short spiky grey hair and glasses, labelled “(Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service).” Peter Gregory: illustrated with short hair, Image Description (alt text): A digital graphic with a teal background. In the top left, the DPAC Australia logo: a black downward-pointing triangle with rounded corners, containing the white letters “DPAC,” with the word “AUSTRALIA” set diagonally along the triangle’s right edge. To the right, bold white heading text reads “Community Forum.” Below, in purple, “NDIS Cuts One Year On.” Underneath is the meta line: “Fri 3 Oct | 12:00–2:00 pm AEST | Online.” In the centre, bold white text says “Share your story. Get informed. Push back!” At the bottom: “Disabled People Against Cuts (Australia). Register on Humanitix: link in text.”

Image Description (alt text): A teal background graphic with the DPAC Australia logo (black triangle, white letters, “AUSTRALIA” on the right edge) in the top left. Large white heading to the right reads “What Can I Expect?” Below, bold white text says: “Attendees will have the opportunity to share their stories in a peer led discussion about;” followed by a white bulleted list: “group homes/forced shared supports; restrictive funding periods; support lists & ‘primary disability’ rules; funding cuts and changes; removal of people (especially kids & women) from the NDIS.” Further down, bold white subheading: “Our expert panel will be talking about:” with bulleted list: “assessment; appeals; eligibility reassessments; evidence; and self-advocacy.” Image Description (alt text): A teal background graphic with the DPAC Australia logo in the top left. Bold white heading reads “Speakers and Panelists.” Below, four illustrated cartoon-style portraits are arranged in two columns, each with names and affiliations beside them: Naomi Anderson: illustrated with short spiky grey hair and glasses, labelled “(Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service).” Peter Gregory: illustrated with short hair, Image Description (alt text): A digital graphic with a teal background. In the top left, the DPAC Australia logo: a black downward-pointing triangle with rounded corners, containing the white letters “DPAC,” with the word “AUSTRALIA” set diagonally along the triangle’s right edge. To the right, bold white heading text reads “Community Forum.” Below, in purple, “NDIS Cuts One Year On.” Underneath is the meta line: “Fri 3 Oct | 12:00–2:00 pm AEST | Online.” In the centre, bold white text says “Share your story. Get informed. Push back!” At the bottom: “Disabled People Against Cuts (Australia). Register on Humanitix: link in text.”

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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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Sign the Petition Replace Dr Mike Freelander as Chair of the Thriving Kids inquiry

Please sign and share!

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e-petitions e-petitions

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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.

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.

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.

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...

I may have lost my shit on LinkedIn a little.

BEHOLD.

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

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

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

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

YouTube video by DARU Rights Under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD)

We have rights.

And nobody is allowed to take them away from us.

We fight back.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ever.

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

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

She doesn’t mind my weirdness x

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.

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...

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

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.

“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/...

And then the bill passed.

I have not, but I can find out. @inclusionmoves.bsky.social would know, I imagine.

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.

Holy shit. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Man carrying a wheelchair through an airport

excuse me sir you’re doing it wrong

News Corp blunders (again), Kyle's tactical tantrum, and a Mamamia culpa? Plus the injuries sustained by former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas in an altercation with NSW Police are getting a lot of attention in Malaysia.

If we had a dollar for every time a scandal-plagued Liberal politician was erroneously affiliated with Labor by a newspaper... we'd now have $2.