Other published papers by Peter Gibilisco. Note that further articles may be found at Online Opinion and at Peter's blog.
Peter's more recent blog posts can be found on his blog.
2019
The politics of the NDIS - Budget, welfare, and insurance.
Eight and a half yours on a dunghil.
The need for human interaction.
My life with Freidreich's Ataxia: Some autobiographical reflections.
Independent strategies for urinating and toilet routines in relation to Friedrich’s Ataxia.
Submission to the Disability Royal Comission.
Another burden on my communication.
A ONE SIZE FITS ALL POLICY DOESN’T FIT ANYONE.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO GIVE PEOPLE WITH FRIEDREICH’S ATAXIA RESPECT?.
Another open letter to the NDIS.
Another possible submission to the Royal Commission.
The independence of Friedreich’s Ataxia and its relationship with deteriorating muscle spasms.
The Independence of Friedreich’s Ataxia and its Relationship to Scoliosis and Cardiomyopathy.
The relationship between dysarthria and individual communication aspects of Friedreich's Ataxia.
The relationship between Nystagmus and my individualistic style of Friedreich’s Ataxia.
A possible submission to the Royal Commission.
Design For All Guest Editorship.
2018
My need for invidualised support.
I Respond to the Minister of Social Services.
Did I Deserve 7 Years of This Imprisonment?.
Monash Human Library and New Book.
Furthering Mutual Respect: Some Thoughts on Giving Sexuality its Due and Friedreich’s Ataxia.
2017
An Urgent And Serious Challenge.
"Customers" Living In Shared Supported Accomodation.
Another Hurdle I Must Get Over.
How Is The Peak Body For People With Disabilities To Be Funded.
A Certain Loss Of Control, That is to Make Me Feel Punished.
My Predicament and a Possible Solution.
The Individualism Of Sex and People with Friedrich's Ataxia.
Bucket List Tips: Some Pros and Cons.
Where are the public intellectuals like Hugh Stretton?.
2016
Hugh Stretton: one of Australia's best public intellectuals.
My need and of course the needs of many other people with severe disabilities for the NDIS.
Some key ideas for the next generation of disability activists.
Five Years In Retrospect: Live Without Control.
A Synergistic Approach to Disability.
Design For All, Volume 11, Number 1, Guest Editorship.
Disability support services – effectiveness and efficiency.
Neoliberalism and its Perceptions.
The Definition of Determined, Pro Bono Australia News.
2015
Partnership Benefits for People with Disabilities and Their Carers, Pro Bono Australia News.
Realigning For a Social Understanding of Disability, Pro Bono Australia News.
The standardisation of services for people with disabilities.
Peter Gibilisco. Friendship and Service Provision Ethos for People with Disabilities.
Peter Gibilisco and assisted by Bruce Wearne. A Special Minister for Disability.
Time for a Special Minister of Disability, Pro Bono Australia News.
Choose Equality!, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
The Cost of Rising Disability Housing Rental, Pro Bono Australia News.
Love and disability: ‘inter-ability relationships’ conquer stereotypes, The Conversation.
Rent And The Commodification Of Disability Support Services, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Does the not-for-profit sector truly aim to assist people with disabilities?, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
How is the peak body for people with disabilities to be funded?, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Disability service providers and the need for multicultural competency, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
2014
Love, sex, disability and stereotypes, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Professor Muhammad Yunus, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Monash university - Social Justice Unit - Testimonial by Peter Gibilisco
The dignity of risk for the disabled, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
2013
A Patient's Journey: Friedrich Ataxia, with A. Vogel, British Medical Journal 2013; 347 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f7062
Direct Employment Is Our Future, Keynote speech at Direct Support Professionals Conference at the University of Sydney, 22 July 2013.
Direct employment: by and for people with disabilities, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Standardising Disability, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
The 'Cost-Disease' And How Dominant Political Thought Will Create Chaos, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Where is the dignity in ‘My future, my choice?’, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
2012
Peter's Story: Understanding Your Legal Responsibilities, Victorian Department of Human Services Publication regarding Direct Employment.
The State Disability Plan: Reality or Rhetoric?, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Some Of The Problems And Consequences Arising From Scratching Itches For People With Severe And Progessive Disabilities, Newsletter of Design For All Institute of India: Vol 7 No 2, Page 21.
A Reform Disability Services Needs To Push, Newsletter of Design For All Institute of India: Vol 7 No 2, Page 34.
Some of the Problems and Consequences Arising From Scratching Itches for People With Severe and Progressive Disabilities [Remodelled], Lecture delivered to Cert 4 students at Chisholm TAFE Cranbourne campus, 27 March 2012.
2011
A Reform Disability Services Needs To Push, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Labor Shortage In Disability Sector, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Some Of The Problems And Consequences Arising From Scratching Itches For People With Severe And Progessive Disabilities, presentation to Disability Action Group Eastern Region.
Three Encounters, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Action in Australian Disability Rights, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Neoliberalism Degrades People With Disabilities, Newsletter of Design For All Institute of India: Vol 6 No 6, Page 100.
Disability advocacy: why does it elude those most in need?, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme: friend or foe?, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Dignity of Risk should be a disability right, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Neoliberalism degrades disabled, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Empathy Not Sympathy Helps Inclusiveness, Newsletter of Design For All Institute of India: Vol 6 No 2, Page 51.
2010
Empathy not sympathy helps inclusiveness, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Neo-liberalism and impoverishment, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
2009
The Third Way, Just Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy, No. 50, Apr 2009: 46-53.
Financial crisis, social democracy and social policy, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Is the ‘Third Way’ the right way?, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Achieving a synergy for the disabled, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
2008
Video for Learning Partnerships Project.
Universal access to disability services defines our progress , Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
The importance of disabilty support workers, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Itches and scratches – living with disability, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
2007
The downside of individualised social services, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Disability services – efficient, standardised, impersonal, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Wasting expertise and wasting lives, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Barriers to study for the disabled, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
2006
The State Disability Plan – Rhetoric and Reality, Just Policy: A Journal Of Australian Social Policy.
Delivering employment to the disabled, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Social inclusion for the disabled is a mirage, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
A social study of success, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
2005
Some aspects of employment confronting the political economy of disablement, paper given at Transforming Disability conference given by Center for Public Policy, University of Melbourne.
Treating disabled as ‘patients’ leads to stigmas and discrimination, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
The political economy of disablement: A sociological analysis, Doctoral Thesis, University of Melbourne, Library.
2004
Is the Victorian government trying to avoid helping people in need?, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
2003
How neo-liberal ideology affects the lives of people with disabilities, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate.
Is the third way the right way?, BNet Australian Edition.
A Just Society: Inclusive of people with disabilities, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Number 52, pp. 128-142.
A Pragmatic Social Democrat: An Interview with Hugh Stretton, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Number 51, p. 132-142.
A Study in Success, Campus Review: your sector your newspaper, Volume 13, Number 25, July the 2nd-8th, p. 9.
2002
Elect the Ambassador (2001) by Duncan Kerr, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Number 49, pp. 150-153.
2001
Book Review: The Enabling State: People before bureaucracy” Journal of Economic and Social Policy: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 6.
2000
Hugh Stretton and His Social Theory, Journal of Economic and Social Policy: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 5.
Hugh Stretton and the Social Sciences, Masters Thesis. Monash University, Library.