S|AM Connor

Dear Community I said I had an announcement - this is it! A FREE activism course for disabled folk. Only cost is a subscription to Disability Busters! The course starts in March. We need to organise, activate and fight back. Let's do this thing!

Today! Come along, guys and find out what the changes mean for all of us. Community can be healing and SWAN is up to date on all the info. Let’s get our entire sector together today! See you there <3

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Shoebridge unloads on Labor for ditching the UK, Canada & France on new settlement sanctions on Israel, despite claiming to work with 'likeminded countries' “Does this govt really think the Aus public is just stupid?” “Trump, Netanyahu, they’re your partners!”💥 #auspol

A very good read by Tom Keating. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08...

Hell of a weekend for the NDIS Palantir FOI to drop. Note: - scope was for *potential* use - 22 docs refused - timeline similar to Crack Down on Fraud biz case - FFT agencies have contracts even if none listed for NDIA 📣 @squigglyrick.bsky.social @asherwolf.bsky.social @jeremynadel8.bsky.social

www.facebook.com/share/v/14gu... I’m not going to shut up any time soon. You can take the dog out of the fight, but not the fight out of the dog. One dollar NDIS plan or not. How many more are there? Are they doing this to say that they haven’t booted people off the NDIS?

One of the young folk who has been fighting the changes to the NDIS needs safety and stability after becoming homeless recently escaping FDV. If you can help, here’s the link - www.gofundme.com/f/disabled-c...

"The real lesson from decades of harm is not that we need to tweak compulsory activities. It is that we need to abandon compulsion and place our trust in people instead of providers." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

When whistleblowers are saying this, you known they have been abandoned by the @AlboMP gov't. He's lost my vote. KPMG scandal: Whistleblower reveals the toll of speaking out over alleged misconduct by KPMG share.google/pHfugcp1MCTN...

Please share widely and remind @australianlabor.bsky.social @greens.org.au the Liberal Party and those politicians who profess to hold their faith dear to their heart that this Bill must not pass. Thank you, Bishops, for this important directive. mediablog.catholic.org.au/national-dis...

Watching Senator Jordon Steele-John intermittently raging at and patiently schooling a row of NDIA and Health bureaucrats and TEARING them a new one is perhaps the best thing I have ever watched. MASTERFUL. www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-geo...

This is Australia's plan to pay for AUKUS subs. Not to tax billionaires or gas giants, not to cancel AUKUS. But to end the lives of 1000s of disabled Australians. I cannot think of anything crueller. Can you? linktr.ee/protectourndis www.dpacaustralia.net/get-involved... #ProtectOurNDIS #Gaza

Jillian Segal the so-called anti semitism envoy and funder of hate group Advance, apparently has put out a #bondi statement equating the massive anti genocide March across the Sydney Harbour bridge months back as a cause of this terror event. She needs to resign and repay every cent to the taxpayer.

That heroic bloke who disarmed one of the gunmen and was shot twice? His name is Ahmed al Ahmed. He has two kids and owns a fruit shop in Sutherland. While you’re screaming about Muslims and race, you’re dismissing the actions of a hero. thewest.com.au/news/nsw/bon...

Hilarious that Netflix is screening a bunch of promo fireplace videos while Australia is largely on fire.

She’s been found! Thank you all x

Please spread this far and wide & if you are in WA, please help look for Kendra! Kendra has been out alone since Friday am and her family is worried sick about her. She has no meds & is part of our community. Kendra recently shaved her head. Della is out looking for her now. Lets bring her home <3

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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...

***PLEASE SHARE*** 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

"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 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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.

SHARE SIGN UP GET IN FAST 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.

Please sign and share! chng.it/JV9WQDTjBZ

Please sign and share: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... 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.

I may have lost my shit on LinkedIn a little. BEHOLD. www.linkedin.com/posts/samant...

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

We have rights. And nobody is allowed to take them away from us. We fight back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgQn...

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...

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

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

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.

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

“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.

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

excuse me sir you’re doing it wrong

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.

Australian tourist detained in prison under Trumps new policies www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgain...

Please explain this hotel artwork like you’re an art critic

Waking up to the saddest of news - one of our world’s great teachers, leaders and helpers, John O’Brien, has passed. It has been too many years since I saw you, John. But perhaps we will meet again. Thank you for your lifelong work for disabled people, my friend. Vale.