Accessibility and Sydney’s public transport: people with different mobilities on buses

I did say this series would be irregular! You can find the first post in this series here. I will update this post with links to the other posts as I create them. You can also keep an eye on my list of series to see when posts get added to this series. As is [...]

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Accessibility and Sydney’s public transport: knowing where you’re going

This post is the first in an irregular series about accessibility and Sydney’s public transport. I will update this post with links to the other posts as I create them. The second post is here. You can also keep an eye on my list of series to see when posts get added to this series. [...]

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An appropriate malapropism?

There’s an interesting article in the Guardian today about a report which demonstrates a 17 year gap in the ‘disability-free life expectancy’ of the withs and withouts in the UK. That’s an enormous gap! This quote caught my eye: The report says the conditions in which people are born, live, work and age, shape their [...]

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Does not compute

An article in the Sydney Morning Herald today states that a healthy diet will cost a “typical” welfare-dependent family of four approximately 40% of their average income. This, presumably, is a bad thing, because 40% is a significant proportion. A large chunk of the rest would probably be covering your accommodation. You’re not left with [...]

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Kurt Fearnley vs Jetstar

You might have heard the name Kurt Fearnley. He’s an Australian Paralympic athlete (marathon) who recently took on the Kokoda Track. He usually uses a wheelchair. The Kokoda Track is hardly wheelchair accessible. Fearnley walked on his arms. Fearnley took a Jetstar flight on his way home, and staff insisted that he check in his [...]

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The tragedy in Rossiter’s right to die

Christian Rossiter is dead. RIP. I stayed out of the debate about Rossiter’s win in the Supreme Court at the time, partly because I didn’t have the time to get involved in the discussion in the depth it deserves, but also because it is quite a painful issue for me. My grandmother chose to die [...]

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If women can do it, women should be permitted to do it

Wow! Another person in authority espousing another radical* notion! That’s two this week! As per the following extract from an article in The Australian: Mr Combet, a former ACTU national secretary, told parliament yesterday the Defence Science and Technology Organisation would develop a new set of physical employment standards for the army that would accurately [...]

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The power of language

In a post about how privilege can make someone less able to make decisions which take multiple angles into account (that precis doesn’t do it justice, so I recommend reading the whole thing!), Old Feminist said this: That’s why Americans not speaking English, or “Black English,” is so threatening. If the white male experience isn’t [...]

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