I’ve been thinking about how easily inclusion slips from being a principle into being a tone.When that happens, it starts to sound kind, but it stops being equal. In many policy and practice settings, inclusion is now spoken about primarily in the language of care. People are to be looked after, supported, kept safe. These … Read more
Inclusion, particularly in the disability and NDIS space, has started to sound like a favour being done for people with disabilities. You can hear it in the language: “We’re trying to include you.” “We want to make sure you’re looked after.” The tone is kind, but the framing is wrong. It places people with disabilities … Read more
There was a time when conscience appeared naturally in the language of public life. Leaders invoked it without irony. It was understood as part of the moral architecture of leadership — not a private quirk, but a public expectation. Today the word sounds almost archaic, as though it belongs in sermons or memoirs rather than … Read more