Like other disabled Australians, the #censusfail furore is making me grin.
Over the past month, the nation has been immersed in the type of outrage only afforded to the privileged. Billboards encourage passersby to tell the government that they are atheist if they no longer subscribe to a religious belief. Impassioned expressions of outrage about loss of privacy and the potential for the government to know your business are flooding social media. And the news that the ABS Census website crashed last night, allegedly due to ‘overseas hackers’, has been greeted with delighted handclapping and a virulent spray of ‘I told you so’s’.
Instead of talking about white people problems, we need a new hashtag, #ablepeopleproblems.
Read More Here.. (off-site)- Topics:
- Inclusion and access
- Author:
- Samantha Connor
- Source:
- The Stringer, Independant News
- Closing date:
- Wed 10th Aug, 2016