Disability

  • Daily Life,  Disability,  Thoughts

    Return to Work

    I have always been a company man and upheld the best interest of the company. After my injury and return to work despite informing HR staff of every passing stage I was going through I realised it was just going in one ear and out the other as they “knew what was best for me” I was to return to a section that was in a building I could not get to due to staircases (wheelchairs don’t climb steps) so I was to return to the front counter of Lost Property. I actually felt like I was lost property. I could not see myself in this or the other department…

  • Daily Life,  Disability

    Human Rights Commission National Press Club

    Australian Human Rights Commission Professor Gillian Triggs, President Address to the National Press Club, Canberra I am delighted to have this opportunity to speak at the National Press Club here in Canberra about a topic that is of vital importance to journalists, freedom of speech and the unprecedented very public debate termed the ‘freedom wars’. In doing so, I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we stand and pay respect to the elders past and present. As journalists, freedom of expression is crucial to your ability to scrutinise the political process. You are more aware than most that this freedom is a fragile flower to be nurtured.…

  • Disability

    Shame on You

    Last week my K9 mate Tommy and I visited my Mum at Tweed Heads near Queensland boarder. I had not seen my Mum since she moved there last year and I also wanted to see if her house was accessible for her and me to visit. Mum lives in a retirement village with small shopping centre just accross the the street. The village was very nice and friendly people in the Village. The Sunshine was great but 99% humidity I can do without. I took my 86 year old Mum over to go food shopping and the only wheelchair accessible parking spot was taken by a builders van with a…