Micheline Lee

Dec 6, 2023 | grattan.edu.au | Anna Funder |Ellen Van Neerven |Mark Considine |Micheline Lee

Each year Grattan Institute selects its best books of the past 12 months – recommended reading for the Prime Minister, and indeed all Australians, over the summer holidays.

Oct 4, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Ange McCormack |Micheline Lee

7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by the publishers of The Saturday Paper and The Monthly. How to listen? WebsiteWriter of the latest Quarterly Essay, ‘Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS’, Micheline Lee on what’s wrong with the NDIS and how we can fix it. Barely a decade ago the NDIS, the scheme to support Australians living with a disability, was called the social reform of a generation.

Sep 26, 2023 | newsroom.unsw.edu.au | Micheline Lee

If you have read anything about the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in the last few years, you will have encountered many metaphors. The NDIS is the “lifeboat in the ocean”, “an oasis in the desert”, “a plane being built mid-flight” or a “limitless magic pudding”. I research disability policies and services and confess I’ve used more than a few of these in my work. Who doesn’t love a metaphor?

Sep 13, 2023 | quarterlyessay.com.au | Micheline Lee

Last summer, my sister and I took our brother, who was visiting from Darwin, on a day trip to the Dandenong Ranges. My brother’s disability support worker drove the van that we’d hired to fit all three of us in our electric wheelchairs in the back. As we curved up the hill, the sky obscured by tall mountain ash, our conversation flowed with fond memories of the trips we took here with our parents when they were still alive. We stopped at a picturesque strip of shops popular with tourists.

Sep 11, 2023 | hashtag.net.au | Helen Dickinson |UNSW Sydney |Micheline Lee

If you have read anything about the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in the last few years, you will have encountered many metaphors. The NDIS is the “lifeboat in the ocean”, “an oasis in the desert”, “a plane being built mid-flight” or a “limitless magic pudding”. I research disability policies and services and confess I’ve used more than a few of these in my work. Who doesn’t love a metaphor?