Kate and Mandy talk to Elly Desmarchelier, proud queer disabled woman, disability rights campaigner and national spokesperson for Every Australian Counts – a grassroots campaign to defend and support the NDIS this coming Australian federal election on May 21.

Bear with us international pea friends, but this week it’s important that we focus on the reasons why every Australian must defend the NDIS this federal election. Our people are having their funding cut and then finding themselves pitted against NDIA-funded lawyers in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to fight for the services they need – the ultimate rectum move. Peas, we encourage you to investigate each party's policies to find out for yourself who supports the NDIS, who has a plan and who doesn’t, who’s speaking up and who’s staying silent and make sure you make an informed choice on May 21.

Elly recommends three actions you can take this week to help:

1.    Melbourne peas, join Elly and Every Australian Counts on May 19 at the Defend Our NDIS Melbourne rally and march. Raise your voices to protect the NDIS and support families fighting the lawyers in the AAT.  Find all the details of the march here.

2.    Use this very handy ‘Email Your Candidates’ tool to make email every candidate in your electorate in less than 5mins and make sure they know that defending the NDIS needs to be on the election agenda.  

3.    Reach out to your friends and family and talk to them about why we need to defend the NDIS this election.

Please share this episode of Too Peas In A Podcast widely through your networks to spread the word and make sure no one makes a rectum vote on election day.

·      Follow and support Every Australian Counts

·      Listen to their Defend Our NDIS protest bangers on their Spotify playlists

·      Find out more about Elly over on her website

·      Book tickets to our forthcoming live shows via our website

·      Buy our book The Invisible Life Of Us 

·      Listen to our Spotify playlist – Too Peas: Songs Our Guest Peas Love

·      Melbourne forecast for Monday May 16 – Possible shower, 17 degrees

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