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By Jackson T. Trout

Preface

This is part two of a two-part series of articles chronicling my past experiences with disability employment services from 2009 to 2016.

In the previous instalment, I recounted my personal history with DES providers. For this instalment, I will recollect and reflect on...

By Jackson T. Trout

Preface

This will be a two-part series dealing with my past experiences with disability employment services from 2009 to 2016. For these articles I will not use the exact names of the specific organizations and service providers mentioned and I will not reveal the identities...

By Jackson T. Trout

I’m currently reading Lorna Hallan’s history of disability in Australia, and I’ve just come across this remarkable anecdote. In the late nineteenth century, there lived a man by the name of James Thomas Wrench, who, despite being born with a severe physical disability, was still...

By Jackson T. Trout

In late March of 2017, Arnold Schwarzenegger was visiting his native country of Austria for the Special Olympics World Games.

For those unaware, the Special Olympics, founded in August 1968, is the world’s largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual ...

Leaving WeFlex in 2023 was a brutal but necessary step for myself personally and the future of the business.

As a recently exited Founder, I found myself completely adrift and emotionally charged. So, I took some time out, spent some time working on cool projects with organisations and people tha...

You might consider me the last person to argue this point but I think in the NDIS space we need to reassess the notion of ‘doing it for the right reasons’ and glorifying ‘passion’. Seems a bit jarring but hear me out!

As someone who has operated as a business owner and leader in the NDIS space fo...

Three years at WeFlex (and seventeen years before that in this space) told me that when most people hear the term accessible, they think of one thing. 

Ramps. 

Don’t get me wrong, ramps are awesome and needed, just not needed by everyone with a disability. I’ve been to one gym that was proud of th...