Falling into illness, falling into advocacy
By Hannah Pretious My name is Hannah, and I am currently working on my Bachelor of Arts in Gender Studies and...
Social Model of Disability
Confessions of a reformed simulator trainer
Matthew Whiting, Regional Coordinator Disability Leadership for CCS Disability Action's Southern region, explains why pretending to be disabled is simply not...
Health and Disability System review fundamentally fails disabled people
Like many people with disabilities or impairments, I spend a lot of my time hanging about in hospital waiting rooms. I’ve...
There’s nothing wrong with me!
As a person who uses a wheelchair it’s a question I hear on an almost daily basis, “What’s wrong with you?”....
Disability – not the end of the world!
Disabled woman Jacqui Carlson asks, do all disabled people need to be fixed? People seem to assume that having a disability...
Muddling through models of disability
I am coming to the end of my fourth week as the national policy intern, here at CCS Disability Action. It’s...