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John Delmenico
ABC’s assembly of ableist tropes
The ABC has finally managed to make a viral hit (that isn’t aimed at 3 year olds) in their new show The Assembly, which follows autistic journalists in training. Full of good questions, talented people and basically every modern ableist trope. Before I explain why the show is problematic and what needs to change; I…
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RonniSalt
The trouble with Albanese – what was it all for, Anthony?
We all know the story – you know it, Speersy knows it, everyone warm and vertical in Australia knows it. Anthony Norman Albanese was born into a single parent family and raised in public housing by a mother battling on a disability pension. Some of us could probably recite the story line-for-line by now. As…
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Jo Dyer
Come to your census: data, Dutton and ducking for cover
It was a quirk of fate that the latest research from our electoral Stadler and Waldorf that showed a full 24% of Australians surveyed couldn’t name a single thing the Government had done that positively impacted their lives landed in the same week a Romanesque list of its achievements was circulated online by the cohort…