Human rights? You don't get those.

In my struggles for justice these past few years in the wake of robodebt and the post-covid lockdown re-initialisation of the cruel welfare recipient exploitation regime, all I seem to get is less. Less help. Less solidarity. And I just don't see that getting better for anyone, much less now that the NDIS is facing unprecedented cuts to plans, with absolutely no changes or exemptions to Australia's draconian, two-tiered disability welfare system which still demands compliance.

Kate (she/her) ((as if someone identifying as "Kate" has any question about her "gender identity")) seems to believe that it's unreasonable as a multiply-marginalised person, a trans woman, with disability, still struggling for formal recognition of what I'm living with in a space dominated for for-profit private healthcare, to demand some basic recognition of my inherent dignity.

Apparently, it's unreasonable to demand:

• Safety and security in housing, income and political activity as a human being
• To be left alone and live free of interference in employment and personal relationships - to not be subject to demands by the so-called Australian state just for accessing government services like welfare
• Any kind of fair, reasonable and responsive treatment from the government organisations I have to deal with, in this case, Services Australia and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
• Changes to unfair, inequitable legislation negatively affecting mine and others like me's lives

Somehow, I'm meant to name every single offender against me over the years, and perfectly craft a legal justification as a complete layperson to this "complaint information officer" at the Australian Human Rights Commission. But certainly, I can individually seek help at these fine organisations such as Legal Aid of WA - the people who advised me to pay my robodebt instead of continuing to fight it, basically guaranteeing I saw no justice from the robodebt class action as a Category 4 debtee. Or some community legal centre or disability advocacy finder, because apparently there's no greater questions at play, such as whether disabled people should be exploited by a for-profit employment services system that can, legally and without any reasonable oversight arbitrarily suspend our payments and force us to go back to Centrelink to begin the abuse all over again. Essentially, this is a you problem.

I can't help but think it's a sick joke that I should have to compromise my political principles and bring myself to threaten elected officials or stoop to crass antisemitism, or worse, harm myself or others just to get a diagnosis and some kind of help, in either case risking a criminal record.

These people seemingly think the right thing to do is take every injustice on the chin, or become another statistic, until the government is composed of ethical, moral agents who do give a shit about our human rights and treat us with dignity.

This world wasn't made for us. And made it was, maintained by organisations like the so-called Australian Human Rights Commission.