Locked Out of Access

🧭 Why This Page Exists

This page documents how Australia’s grant and funding processes — particularly those meant to support accessibility, inclusion, and innovation — routinely block the very people they claim to serve.

We are documenting what happens when disabled people, First Nations people, and grassroots system reformers try to engage — and find the door already closed.

🔒 The Problem

• “Invitation-only” grant rounds with no open call
• No way to submit proposals outside of insider networks
• Public money distributed without public process
• Platforms that delete or hide eligibility once deadlines pass
• Exclusion of disabled, autistic and Aboriginal-led reformers — even while using our language and ideas

🔨 What We’re Building Anyway

Despite no support, we’ve created:

• A trauma-aware ABN application toolkit
• Visual, non-verbal AAC and Easy Read formats for self-advocacy
• System navigation flowcharts for participants and carers
• Publicly accessible infrastructure built with lived experience

🧾 Public Record

We have saved the following pages as public records using the Wayback Machine, due to concerns they may be deleted:

• Wayback Link 1
• Wayback Link 2
• All Public Wayback Links
• Screenshot Archive

📣 Call to Action

• End invitation-only grant models for inclusion/accessibility funding
• Require transparency of all recipients of public access-related grants
• Fund lived-experience-built platforms and infrastructure already in place
• Audit repeated funding to inaccessible incumbents