About this site

No relation is the blog of Liam Thatcher (he/him). I am a policy officer working to examine and improve Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme.

I currently provide freelance policy support to a number of organizations, recently including Inclusion Australia, Disability Futures, and the Antipoverty Centre. Prior to that I worked with Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) in their policy team, usually discussing the NDIS and disability advocacy and in the individual advocacy sector directly supporting people to contest decisions made by the NDIA.

I have 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 any employer and these thoughts are my own.

If you'd like to follow new posts you can subscribe at the bottom of the page for free, 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 responds to.

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

Sometimes 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

Content on this webpage I produce 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 purposes (i.e. please don't share to make money).

External information or data may be subject to different terms, and I will attempt to label that when it happens. However, please make further attempts to confirm the providence of that information before sharing further.

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.

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