SubscribeUpdated today with the letter that I actually sent this am
An open letter to the
Minister for Transport
the Honourable Mr David Campbell MP
GPO Box 5341
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Dear Sir,
I’m told I tell a great story whether fiction or fact. My education and experiences over many years has reinforced that telling stories is a good way to understand [...]
The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
Tag: disability
An open letter — rant, long — updated
pavement wars part 1
It is perhaps unwise to get me started on this ….. but well you can skip this entry!
From this post on both scooters and pedestrians and their respective relationships with those in wheelchairs as well as retail space design.
It may be that there are incompetent scooter-users driving into market stalls and store aisles. Or it [...]
The wheels of the bus
The last few weeks have been quite remarkable. Remarkable in a good way I hasten to add. My experiences with mass transit have worked. Consistently. Seamlessly. They just have.
The ramps of the rear loading buses have largely worked; and, on the few occasions when they haven’t worked first time the drivers have tried a few [...]
A thank you
I just want to say thank you to everyone for their interest in my small contribution to this discussion about Dancing with the Stars. It will be interesting to see the impact that these discussion on and off air will have on the show.
I want to make one thing clear. It wasn’t the low scores [...]
media behaving badly
When Sol Trujillo accused Australians of being racist; we told him “Adios’ and proceeded to have a debate amongst ourselves nationally about whether we are in fact racist.
When The Chaser aired the skit attempting to humourise the plight of kids with cancer and the charities supporting them; healthy debate (whatever the result) flared up about [...]
A blocked view
This is the first time I’ve heard of disability used as a reason to retain a million dollar view.
The disability community and developers have an uneasy relationship at the best of times usually around useability and function rather than location per se. It is interseting that according to this piece:
At the request of the developer, [...]
la vie passionnée
In one line, she challenged me.
With 6 words she made me stop and reconsider.
I have been challenged today. Challenged away from advocacy to participation. True participation. The embracing of life.. Beyond all the rhetoric I have been sprouting about living for the now.
Activists demolish Steve Jobs’s house plans
Apple boss housing issues
It seems to me that if the heritage of a house that is in such a dire state can still legally require an owner to maintain it because it is considered a landmark, then the same level of responsibility must be required to provide access for people for disability.
Californian law prohibits historical [...]
Soccer balls and Portuguese chicken
What makes a chicken Portuguese?
Op Ed
My work requires a lot of advocacy. Usually systemic in nature. Arguing the case for the holistic inclusion of the needs of people with disabilities into the way places do business. Trying to make it easy for the decision makers to look good and if your very lucky understand why such policies will work.
It requires [...]
