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Protect Our NDIS Alliance - Magan-djin
Online Community Forum
NDIS Cuts: What’s happening 
Speaker - Next Steps: Oriela Williams
Image: Photo of Oriela, a brown nonbinary person in a wheelchair wearing a kuffiyeh and a cream suit, with dark curly hair and a small beard. 
Text: Oriela (They/Them) is a co-organiser with the Protect Our NDIS Alliance National and Magan-djin team. They are a proudly Disabled Lebanese Non-Binary Dyke based in Magan-djin. Oriela has lived experience as an NDIS participant themselves, with high physical disability and psychosocial support needs; being a full time power wheelchair user, daily caregivers and is living in a SDA/SIL. 
As well as being a dedicated community organiser and activist; Oriela is a passionate disability justice advocate, lived/living experience peer worker and trained Alt2su facilitator with a focus on anti-carceral, peer-lead and trauma-informed responses to distress.
@ProtectOurNDIS.Magandjin | Linktr.ee/ProtectOurNDIS

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Protect Our NDIS Alliance - Magan-djin
Online Community Forum
NDIS Cuts: What’s happening 
Facilitator: Rowena Specht-Whyte
Image: Photo of Rowena, a white cis woman with green and dark brown and grey hair and red glasses, wearing a kuffiyeh and a black Tshirt that says “Fascists get Scratches” with an image of a black snarling cat, speaking into a microphone and holding a black mask. 
Text: Rowena Specht-Whyte (she/her) is an NDIS participant with multiple permanent invisible disabilities, both physical and psychosocial, and is a queer cis woman whose sole income is the Disability Support Pension. Rowena is a strong disability justice advocate with a Masters in Communication for Social Change, as well as a writer and singer/songwriter. She is one of the originators of the Protect Our NDIS Alliance and is a national organiser as well as part of the Magan-djin team.
@ProtectOurNDIS.Magandjin | Linktr.ee/ProtectOurNDIS

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A social media tile with a dark purple background. The poster's text states: Protect Our NDIS Alliance - Magan-djin. Online Community Forum. NDIS Cuts: What's Happening. Presenters. This text is highlighted in sections of light blue, green and yellow. Below that is a list of presenters with photos of them. From left to right: Cassie Brophy from Mob4Mob, Ange Boyd from AMPARO Advocacy, Brianna Bell from Qld Advocacy for Inclusion. Below them is the text "with" with a photo of Senator Jordon Steele-John. At the bottom of the page is a yellow box with text: Tuesday 14 July. 5pm-6:30pm AEST. Auslan interpreters will be present. A social media handle and linktree link are beneath it. @ProtectOurNDIS.Magandjin Linktr.ee/ProtectOurNDIS
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Posted On: July 13th 2026, 03:39 am
Introducing our @protectourndis.magandjin team, Oriela Williams and Rowena Specht-Whyte! Join us this Tuesday 14 July at 5pm AEST for a free online community forum about the NDIS cuts and how to fight back!

Register to attend at the link in our bio!

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INTRODUCING ORIELA WILLIAMS - NEXT STEPS

Oriela (They/Them) is a co-organiser with the Protect Our NDIS Alliance National and Magan-djin team. They are a proudly Disabled Lebanese Non-Binary Dyke based in Magan-djin. Oriela has lived experience as an NDIS participant themselves, with high physical disability and psychosocial support needs; being a full time power wheelchair user, daily caregivers and is living in Specialist Disability Accommodation/Supported Independent Living environment (SDA/SIL).

As well as being a dedicated community organiser and activist; Oriela is a passionate disability justice advocate, lived/living experience peer worker and trained Alt2su facilitator with a focus on anti-carceral, peer-lead and trauma-informed responses to distress.

INTRODUCING ROWENA SPECHT-WHYTE -
FACILITATOR

Rowena Specht-Whyte (she/her) is an NDIS participant with multiple permanent invisible disabilities, both physical and psychosocial, and is a queer cis woman whose sole income is the Disability Support Pension. Rowena is a strong disability justice advocate with a Masters in Communication for Social Change, as well as a writer and singer/songwriter. She is one of the originators of the Protect Our NDIS Alliance and is a national organiser as well as part of the Magan-djin team.

Don’t miss out - join us this Tuesday 14 July - register at the link in our bio.

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