Episode 40 - The Party Line on Labor’s savage NDIS cuts
This week we are joined by friend of the pod Simone, who has been a social worker for 25 years to discuss the savage cuts to NDIS Labor has announced this week. The NDIS ushered in a pro-market perspective on health. The market operates in the disability sector, meaning people with disabilities are shunted around and providers make bank. Labor has money for war budgets but won’t spend money on people with needs.
We also discuss Collingwood’s anti-war stance (crushing Essendon) and the support shown for Ben Roberts Smith at the dawn service.
Readings:
People with disabilities need free universal health care, not the NDIS
NDIS falls victim to familiar scare tactics – while untouchables roll on | The Point
Victorian Liberals to preference One Nation at state election
The manosphere is obsessed with Pilates. It’s about far more than fitness
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