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Disability Advocate

@Advocate0001

Carer of family with Disabilities. Personal views. RT's not neccessarily endorsements.

ourchoiceisadhc.com/
Joined October 2014
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Ingrid Pickering@IPickering722 Dec 2016
Please do not support the closure of NSW Government respite centres for adults and children with d... change.org/p/please-do-not-s… via @ChangeAUS
Sign the Petition

Sign the Petition

Please do not support the closure of government respite centres for people with disability

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Even disability services going under the privatisation push by stage govt. Our most vulnerable have no say and no choice @PDSNSW @AusPSI teapawt.net/PDSNSW/status/81116427…
DS Safety Net (@DSSafetyNet) profile pictureDS Safety Net@DSSafetyNet20 Dec 2016
NSW Gov keen to draw big businesses into disability sector as it relinquishes role as disability provider afr.com/news/nsw-ndis-set-to…
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DS Safety Net@DSSafetyNet3 Feb 2017
40% of all disabled clients in NSW choose the public sector because it works. #keepitpublic #auspol #nswpol #DisabilityRights #
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From public good to profit margin: how privatisation is failing our communities | David Hetherington theguardian.com/commentisfre…

From public good to profit margin: how privatisation is failing our communities | David Hetherington

When institutions that fulfil a deeply human function – teaching, caring for people at their most vulnerable moments – are forced to behave like businesses, everyone loses

theguardian.com
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Disability Advocate retweeted
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Nigel Miles@NigelMiles16 Mar 2017
From public good to profit margin: how privatisation is failing our communities | David Hetherington theguardian.com/commentisfre… #KeepItPublic

From public good to profit margin: how privatisation is failing our communities | David Hetherington

When institutions that fulfil a deeply human function – teaching, caring for people at their most vulnerable moments – are forced to behave like businesses, everyone loses

theguardian.com
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Disability services provider investigated over series of deaths abc.net.au/news/2017-03-27/d… via @ABCNews
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Nigel Miles@NigelMiles27 May 2017
If the NSW Liberals had their way, you'd be charged $1 every time you stepped on to a public footpath #nswpol #KeepItPublic #privatisation
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gaolteacher 🌈@gaolteacher27 May 2017
With neg wage growth, rising living costs, unemployment & increasing council rates, cutting #penaltyrates will be last straw @KevinHoganMP
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The PSA will oppose any attempt to privatise @serviceNSW #BREAKING #psacon17 #nswpol
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Disability Advocate retweeted
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Nigel Miles@NigelMiles27 May 2017
NSW Gov 100% #privatisation of PublicDisabilityServices.org… is exactly that plus their business friends make a bucket load of cash #KeepItPublic teapawt.net/RTBUnion/status/867918…
RTBU (@RTBUnion) profile pictureRTBU@RTBUnion26 May 2017
Privatisation popular with govts looking to distance themselves from responsibility, says @Lgrigorovitch theage.com.au/victoria/priva… #ausunions
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Disability Advocate retweeted
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Nigel Miles@NigelMiles27 May 2017
.@NDIS unable to police 100s maybe 1000s of disability start-ups as NSW Gov closes down the NSW Department of Ageing Disability & Home Care
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Nigel Miles@NigelMiles24 Apr 2017
The #privatisation of NSW disability services is just another opportunity for corrupt Liberals to feather their own nests #KeepItPublic teapawt.net/psansw/status/85630541…
Public Service Association of NSW (@psansw) profile picturePublic Service Association of NSW@psansw24 Apr 2017
Former Sydney MP caught in $2.5m fees for charity investigation smh.com.au/nsw/former-nsw-mp… via @smh
Former NSW MP Jim Longley caught up in investigation into $2.5m consultancy fees for charity

Former NSW MP Jim Longley caught up in investigation into $2.5m consultancy fees for charity

Senior NSW public servant shared in $2.5 million payments from charity he directed.

smh.com.au
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Nigel Miles@NigelMiles10 May 2017
2½ years later and some of our most vulnerable ARE now falling thru the cracks and @GladysB @Dom_Perrottet are looking the other way #nswpol teapawt.net/Advocate0001/status/53…
Disability Advocate (@Advocate0001) profile pictureDisability Advocate@Advocate000127 Nov 2014
@lillypond61 Disability advocates protest against privatisation plan abc.net.au/news/2014-11-13/d… … … @ABCNews @aRealChoice #DontDISmyAbility
Disability advocates protest against privatisation plan

Disability advocates protest against privatisation plan

Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.

abc.net.au
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Disability Advocate retweeted
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Stephen Mears@smea84785 Aug 2016
They are paving the way right now to sell off their Public Servants to sweeten the deal to private industry - TRUTH teapawt.net/hkerr32/status/7606473…
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RoseAnn DeMoro
@RoseAnnDeMoro5 Aug 2016
While worker pay has been stagnant, CEO pay is up 1000%. The 99% needs a Political Revolution! #FridayFeeling #p2
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Jakaya Kikwete
@GPEChair7 Mar 2016
If we invest in girls' schooling, health benefits will follow and impact generations to come. Thoughts on #IWD2016 huff.to/1TF1VI9
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Heres another leaner. Cold as a snake & meaner than thatcher & reagan. – at Saint Moritz, Switzerland
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I'm raising money for my beautiful 27 yr old daughter with thymic #cancer Pls help or RT gofund.me/ak5d2pxg?pc=tw_cr_… via @gofundme
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Disability Advocate retweeted
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Ingrid Pickering@IPickering721 Nov 2015
Please consider signing & sharing this petition to stop the privatisation of Disability Services change.org/p/premier-mike-ba…
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