The Ministry of Disability - Whaikaha's announcement of the Disability Guidelines on Monday, March 18, is an attack on Enabling Good Lives, turning back decades on gains made by all disabled people in New Zealand.
It takes away the fundamental human right of all disabled people to decide what is best for their own lives.
Individualised Funding (IF) has massively changed our lives. We refuse to accept that things will return to the way they were, with patronising government bureaucrats making decisions about our lives.
As one of many coming responses, a peaceful protest will be held outside the Electoral Office of the Minister of Disability Issues at 10 am on Thursday, 28 March, 22 Kelvin St, Invercargill, to demand that all of these changes be reversed immediately.
And that is just the start till we win.