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THREAD 🧵 The bell is tolling for #NDIS #Algorithms. But is the #NDISReview heeding the warnings of the #Harm to participants and #Risk to the Scheme. This is a brilliant submission by Georgia van Toorn & Professor Jackie Leach Scully. 👇👇👇 linkedin.com/posts/georgia-…

📣Our upcoming November event will take place on Tuesday, 8th November at 7.30pm GMT Disability, Racism, and the Spectre of Eugenics in Digital Welfare Georgia van Toorn [Georgia van Toorn] & Karen Soldatić [karen soldatić] #Marxism #DisabilityTwitter marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/nov…

🎉 Celebrated human rights lawyer & tireless disability advocate Rosemary Kayess has been appointed the new Australian Human Rights Commission Disability Discrimination Commissioner 👏👏👏 UNSW Law & Justice UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture UNSW 🔗: humanrights.gov.au/about/news/com…

We invite submissions for a special issue exploring Afrocentric theorizing of anti-blackness. We seek theoretical, empirical, and critical reviews that push boundaries of antiracist thought. Abstracts due 15 May. More information can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

How government planned to flog the idea that cost slashing to the NDIS was actually a good thing. They tested it through user testing groups and decided to spend millions on doing media and trotting round the countryside selling cuts. Cannot actually make this up. Holy shit.

Growing reliance on #AI and automated systems has increased #Poverty, #Inequity, #Discrimination and #Marginalisation. Georgia van Toorn shows us how, and warns #Labour not to fall under the spell of AI hype and watch out for its risks and unaccountability. ow.ly/805T50Sq296

Excited to be here in the UK for #SPAconf2024 having just published this piece w Lina Dencik, Joanna Redden & Jess Brand about Labour's reliance on AI to address poverty. Labour is promising change, but tech fixes only offer more of the same @AdmsCentre Data Justice Lab

Recent OPEN ACCESS article by TASA members Georgia van Toorn & karen soldatić et al. Introduction to the digital welfare state: Contestations, considerations and entanglements journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

You are INVITED to the premiere of I Am Not A Number, the latest film from ADM+S doco filmmaker Jeni Lee and co-producer Georgia van Toorn, which highlights the impacts of #algorithms in NDIS service delivery admscentre.org.au/event/i-am-not…  Jeni Lee  @Thao_pow @pinkydigital @admscentre

Troubled by the turn to algorithms in #NDIS decision-making, I teamed up with Jeni Lee to tell the stories of those most impacted. The first community screening of ‘I Am Not A Number’ is tomorrow in Melbourne/Naarm. Everyone welcome! admscentre.org.au/event/i-am-not… @AdmsCentre

The Chancellor of University of Canberra is Lisa Paul, who Bill Shorten hired to co-author the NDIS review. Now he’s about to be Vice-Chancellor, hired by panel led by the Chancellor Lisa Paul.