RT @TastyTooGood@twitter.com

@SueBarrett@twitter.com @MichaelWestBiz@twitter.com @MurdochCadell@twitter.com @TroyStolz@twitter.com 100%…@DRC_AU@twitter.com #DisabilityRC … #PublicTrustees #PublicAdvocates like #StateTrustees #OPA, tribunals like & public hospitals need to find their #MoralCompass again 👀if their #exploitation, severe #neglect, #violence & #abuse is going to be stopped.💡

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-compromise-trap-9781576755761

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TastyTooGood/status/1607524370330836992

RT @PeterWMurphy1@twitter.com

Stellar report by Elizabeth Wright @esioul@twitter.com on @DylanAlcott@twitter.com's testimony at the Disability Royal Commission on @abcnews@twitter.com just now. Despite the coverage from right-wing media, Australians with disabilities are NOT a burden. #NDIS #DisabilityRC

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PeterWMurphy1/status/1602533906116497408

RT @FPDNAus@twitter.com

First up today at the #DisabilityRC is @DylanAlcott@twitter.com.
“Not everyone with #disability can work, that’s okay — your worth is not tied to employment. They need support.
Those who can work deserve choice & control. It’s pretty brutal out there; participation rate still low.”

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FPDNAus/status/1602453266813845504

Alt Text for Image: He is wearing a dark shirt and is speaking into a camera. A woman is signing in the bottom right corner of the screen.

The Disability Royal Commission hearing is on again this week, finally looking at the appalling situation for many disabled people who are stripped of the right to make basic decisions about their lives.

Anthony said on Monday that his Mum, under guardianship, was sexually assaulted and so horrifyingly neglected that she lost teeth and didn't have enough food.
Uli lived in a group home and the disability service provider got control of his money and told him what he could spend it on.
John told the DRC yesterday that he was told he couldn't even buy flowers for his boyfriend. Such a small, ordinary decision, taken away.

We need urgent change to this archaic and abusive regime that hurts so many disabled people.

There also need to be questions about why it took three years before the DRC looked at guardianship, why it took huge amount of work from disabled people to get this hearing, and why they kept trying to not have this hearing.

Strong content note for these articles - extreme neglect, abuse.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/first-nations-woman-suffered-neglect-royal-commission-told/101685880

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-24/disability-royal-commission-state-trustees/101689100

https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/23/guardianship-disability-royal-commission/

#DisabilityRC #Disability #NDIS