About this site

Liam Thatcher is a policy officer working to examine Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme. No relation.

I currently work with Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) in their policy team, usually about the NDIS and disability advocacy. I have particular research interest around the huge administrative burdens of the scheme, as well as inequality the scheme regularly fixes and exacerbates.

This site is a place to collate extra thoughts and will not be consistent. It does not necessarily represent the views of my Employer and these thoughts are my own.

If you'd like to follow new posts you can subscribe at the bottom of the page, subscribe to the RSS Feed or otherwise follow me on Bluesky.

When I have time to troubleshoot the many issues that come up with it, I also run the NDIS FOI Bluesky account which publishes short summaries of FOI requests the NDIA publishes. It's currently on hiatus while I fix the system that was doing a bit to automatically format updates, but hope to be back soon.

As is my want, there's also a photography page you can check out!

Sometime this blog may discuss legal cases or legislation. I am not a lawyer and this website cannot substitute legal advice.

For NDIS matters, you can usually reach out to your local legal aid commission for advice at no cost.

Copyright/Licensing

Unless otherwise noted, content on this webpage is licensed is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. This means that you can share and adapt this content, but must attribute me (a link to the original post is fine) and it cannot be used for commercial use (i.e. please don't share to make money).

This Website Uses Ghost

I like Ghost as a platform! It's a great open source project that avoiding some of the drama around Automattic and WordPress lately, nor does it regularly publish Nazis like Substack. It looks great and has no ads.

While I use the ghost.pro service because it's easy to setup, it's worth checking out self-hosting options too.