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female stereotypes, gender and sexual orientation don't define our
societal roles and expectations.
We then have physical disabilities, relating to physical conditions
that effect things like a person's mobility, their physical capacity, their
stamina or dexterity. Examples could include brain or spinal cord injuries,
multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, hearing and visual impairments. We then
have neurodiversity and cognitive differences. Specifically understanding
the unique differences among people with these conditions and how they
could equip them in varying degrees. We then have mental ill health
conditions. These effect mood, thinking and behaviour, depression,
anxiety, schizophrenia to eating disorders and addictive behaviours.
Last but not least, age diverse. Arguably, this is going to be one of
the largest categories of vulnerability that we will see in our society.
Especially when we look at the Australian Bureau of Statistics which says
that the number of people aged 65 and over will go from 3.7 million in
2017 to 8.7 million in 2046.
Notably, the other thing I will mention is whilst they are the groups
that are vulnerable, we need to think about the circumstances that they
experience and when they have those circumstances, with the systemic
exclusion, this is when we really need to direct our support. Some of
those circumstances can include financial hardship, unemployment, being
in social housing, being homeless, low literacy or no education.
Recently, I went to Lismore, for those that have been paying
attention to what is happening on the news, Lismore had a series of
extreme flooding. I know all of us were rocked here in NSW for anyone
that is coming from NSW. Lismore was really affected. There was two-
storey buildings that were underwater off the back of the huge rain that
we had in March this year. The reason why I wanted to bring Lismore up
is I was there a few weeks ago and I needed a prescription from a doctor.