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Fay’s Zine – Culturally Safe NDIS Complaint

Fay (they/them) Posted by Fay (they/them) 1 min read

[Image description: The Flags for Australia’s First Nations peoples; the Aboriginal flag, a yellow circle with the background divided into black at the top and red below; and the Torres Strait Islander flag with a white traditional headdress and a white star on a blue and green striped background.] If … • You feel unsafe • Are treated badly you can complain. [Image description: Simple illustration of a First Nations girl with a lot of hair, looking a bit nervous with her hands in her lap. She is wearing a shirt featuring the Aboriginal flag, using a manual wheelchair, and wearing a yellow and brown headband.] How? On the NDIS website • Online form • Phone call • Email • Meeting in person Or … FPDN First Peoples’ Disability Network can help you make a complaint and advocate for you. [Image description: Logo for the First People’s Disability Network featuring red, green, blue and yellow curved lines and circles in the shape of Australia.] VACCHO Victoria Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation has workers that can help you and visit rural mob. [Image description: Logo for VACCHO with black text under artwork depicting an overhead view of the tracks of four people coming together over a map of Victoria.] Community Your old people and trusted adults can help you make a complaint and have yarns about the process. You matter Your voice is the most important, let it be heard. More information • ndis.gov.au • fpdn.org.au • vaccho.org.au Stay deadly.

This zine is created by Fay, a proud Palawa person.

Message from Fay:

The zine is information on how to make a complaint in a culturally safe way linking to resources at FPDN and VACCHO as the two main indigenous organisations involved in NDIS. It is also in plain English for people with English as a second language/intellectually disabled mob and just affirming that they can and should make complaints about anything they need to. 

Download Fay’s art (Zine version)

Fay’s art (Accessible Word version)

[Image description: The Flags for Australia’s First Nations peoples; the Aboriginal flag, a yellow circle with the background divided into black at the top and red below; and the Torres Strait Islander flag with a white traditional headdress and a white star on a blue and green striped background.] If … • You feel unsafe • Are treated badly you can complain. [Image description: Simple illustration of a First Nations girl with a lot of hair, looking a bit nervous with her hands in her lap. She is wearing a shirt featuring the Aboriginal flag, using a manual wheelchair, and wearing a yellow and brown headband.] How? On the NDIS website • Online form • Phone call • Email • Meeting in person Or … FPDN First Peoples’ Disability Network can help you make a complaint and advocate for you. [Image description: Logo for the First People’s Disability Network featuring red, green, blue and yellow curved lines and circles in the shape of Australia.] VACCHO Victoria Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation has workers that can help you and visit rural mob. [Image description: Logo for VACCHO with black text under artwork depicting an overhead view of the tracks of four people coming together over a map of Victoria.] Community Your old people and trusted adults can help you make a complaint and have yarns about the process. You matter Your voice is the most important, let it be heard. More information • ndis.gov.au • fpdn.org.au • vaccho.org.au Stay deadly.
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Fay (they/them)

My name is Fay my pronouns are they/them and I’m a proud palawa person, I am multiply disabled both physically and mentally along with being queer and trans. I am also DeafBlind and use Auslan and my primary language and do a lot of activism work with the Deaf and DeafBlind communities as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
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