The pressure on audiologists to become glorified salespeople on behalf of hearing-aid companies reveals an ugly side of what used to be a dedicated public service. Almost everyone I know who has ever worked in organisations for deaf and for hearing-impaired people has heard stories of hearing clinics which badger hearing-impaired people into buying expensive […]
Not the news – Season 10 (6 of 15)
Simon Lane continues an irreverent take on disability news. This time he reports on a new expo on cures for disability, a new Deaf Power campaign, and Orc refugees from Middle Earth are now classified as disabled. Produced by Grit Media and broadcast on the No Limits program on Channel 31 in Melbourne, Australia
Not the News season 10 (5 of 15)
Presenter Simon Lane continues his irreverent take on disability news, this time on sex, with a report on speed dating and on what’s happening at the National Disability Sex Therapists’ Conference. And the disability terrorist group Al Kaseltzer causes conniptions for the international disability body. Produced by Grit Media and presented on the No Limits […]
Not the News – Season 8 (1 of 15)
This is the first of 15 short episodes of Not the News, a segment in the No Limits television program produced by Grit Media and presented on Channel 31 in Melbourne, Australia. All episodes are captioned. Not the News is an irreverent take on disability politics, government policy, disability funding and disability self-help groups. Occasionally […]
The ironies in Lawson’s campfire
Did Henry Lawson create idyllic scenes of yarns around campfires because he was deaf and could not take part in them? IF HENRY Lawson was alive today, what would he say at a press conference? For starters, perhaps he would make a sardonic comment about his profile on the old ten-dollar note. However we could […]
From not deaf to Deaf
Travelling from “not deaf” to “Deaf” sounds like a minor edit in that most personal of journeys, of finding out who you are. But it took MICHAEL UNIACKE a few decades. It was no less than a minister in the Hawke Government who called me the worse thing I have ever been called. Of course […]
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