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A blessing and a cause
Morrison’s gaffe about being “blessed” not to have disabled children should spark a more important debate about the NDIS
Traditional and social media have been heavily focused today on Scott Morrison’s leaders’ debate “gaffe”, in which he thoughtlessly told a mother asking about NDIS cuts that he and wife Jenny were “blessed” not to have disabled children.
- Rachel Withers
- The Monthly
Twitter has been, in the parlance of the PM, “a pile-on”, with everyone from disability advocates to Labor MPs to Australians of the Year (including Grace Tame and Dylan Alcott) attacking the prime minister over the insulting implication that disabled children are a burden.
To be fair to…