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Event Details📢 Rally for Our Rights – Stop the NDIS Cuts!
Join us in person or via live stream for an Auslan-interpreted protest rally on Friday, 6 December at Parliament Lawns.
This action marks the week of International Day of People with Disability (3 December) — a time when governments should be celebrating inclusion, not cutting the supports we rely on.
Disabled people, families, and allies will share their stories and demand an end to the NDIS cuts and restrictions that are pushing people out of the scheme and leaving lives in crisis.
The government promised nobody would be worse off — but right now, thousands of us are. We won’t stay silent while our rights are stripped away.
✊ Together we will raise our voices, take up space, and fight for an NDIS that delivers the supports we need and deserve.
#NobodyWorseOff
#NDIS #StopTheCuts #DisabilityRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #NDISProtest #DisabilityJustice #NoCutsToNDIS
For comment or further information, please contact:
📧 Heidi La Paglia – [email protected]
📧 Ana Pike – [email protected]
Speakers and organisers include:
Hera Fox (MC)
Bio: (she/her/luv) is a neurodivergent trans woman, producing and performing in events to uplift minority groups with a focus on transgender and neurodivergent people. Currently studying an MFA in Cultural Leadership with a passion for improving spaces for people of varying degrees of ability. Award winner of 30 under 30 community champion 2020, she strives to make the performance arts inclusive and safe for all people.
Heidi La Paglia - Autistic, disabled, consultant and advocate.
Bio: (she/her) is an Autistic disabled consultant and advocate deeply committed to defending and strengthening the NDIS. She works nationally across disability rights and gender equality, with a focus on ensuring reforms do not roll back hard-won rights or deepen inequality. Heidi serves on the Board of the Regional Autistic Engagement Network (RAEN) and the Steering Committee of Every Australian Counts (EAC), where she has contributed to national submissions and campaigns in response to NDIS reforms. Drawing on her expertise at the intersection of disability and gender, Heidi advocates systemic change that keeps the NDIS true to its original purpose—operationalising the UNCRPD and ensuring nobody is worse off or left behind.
Oliver Cassidy:
Bio: (he/they) Once had a busy life as an AACTA and Walkey nominated filmmaker, an environmental activist and musician with Hobart improv band, Philomath, Oliver is one of the many adults with a late ADHD diagnosis, he has acquired physical disability, and last year had to stop everything when he developed ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) a chronic energy limiting condition that effects an estimated 250 thousand Australians.
Lisa Rime:
Bio: (she/her) is a neurodiverse advocate, activist, artist, performer, and volunteer who lives with multiple chronic illnesses and disability. With lived experience of intense housing stress and socioeconomic disadvantage, Lisa is dedicated to supporting intersectional grassroots community building through activism and mutual aid. Lisa is involved in many groups working towards a more equitable, caring, and resilient community, including Short of a Sheet, and Lutruwita Activist and Mutual Aid (LAMA) Collective.
Quin Thomson:
Bio: (they / them) - musician / composer / educator / creative producer / queer and disability advocate
Worthy Starling:
Bio: (any pronouns) – charismatic firebrand activist, 100% that bitch, stalwart of the community
Ana Pike - Main organiser.
Bio: (she/her), AuHDer, wheelchair user and chronically ill. Ana is an intersectional activist, advocate, and community organiser with a main focus on ensuring the rights of disabled and LGBTIQA + people. She is a university student at UTAS studying a Diploma in Applied Health and Community Support and was the winner of the 2021 Outstanding Contribution by a young person at the Disability Festival Awards.
Accessibility: There will be an Auslan interpreter and a COVID station with masks and hand sanitiser, and we ask people to please social distance where possible. For those with sensory needs to noise, we will be providing earplugs, which you can get at the COVID station. There is an accessible bathroom in Salamaca Square. limited seating will also be provided at the front for those who need it. This event will also be live streaming for those who can't be there in person.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Parliament Lawns Hobart, 2 Murray St, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia, Hobart
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