Every successful sales pitch at Land Forces, every business card exchanging hands at the official networking events, means more weapons in the hands of those who can always justify their use.
Loneliness has become a feature of modernity, a hallmark of late capitalism, woven into the technologies and built environments that form the architecture of our lives.
The shift to marketised social services has gone hand-in-hand with the erosion of the safety net role historically played by social services, leaving the ‘losers’ of the NDIS in a terrifyingly precarious position.