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We are writing to express our concerns about the lack of commitment to an urgent nationwide rollout of free Rapid Antigen Tests to everyone, and the absence of support for people who test positive to COVID. Australia currently has one of the highest rates of new COVID cases per capita in the world. Our infrastructureContinue reading “Open Letter to the Prime Minister and State and Federal MPs of Australia, from the Disability Justice Network”

Friday 7 January 2021 As the omicron variant of COVID-19 rapidly spreads across so-called Australia, our community is in crisis.Healthcare workers are burnt out, hospitals are overwhelmed, PCR testing infrastructure is crumbling, contact tracing systems have been gutted, the threat of long COVID and mass disablement looms, and those most at risk continue to beContinue reading “No Body or Mind Left Behind: Covid Crisis Community Forum”

First published in Overland, 3 June 2021. We, members of the Disability Justice Network of Australia, want to express our anger, sorrow, and solidarity with the Palestinian people. As both Indigenous and non-Indigenous disabled people living in so-called Australia, we recognise and understand the violent and disabling nature of settler-colonialism, an ongoing structure that reliesContinue reading “Palestine solidarity statement”