Disability advocate Elly Desmarchelier was given a rare honour last week - she was invited on to the floor of Parliament House to listen to Bill Shorten's final speech. "No politician is perfect," she reported on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7265993785770143744/. "Bill is not perfect, but he has spent over a decade putting everything he has into the NDIS, he cares about our community beyond a superficial political photo stunt and for that I will genuinely miss him." Others told Desmarchelier; 'read the room'. "It is honestly boggling to read words like this," say Neurodivergent Parents https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-australian-neurodivergent-parents-association-94246b2a8/ . "This man is walking into $1.4 mill a year and leaving in his wake poor parents on centrelink having their children cut from the scheme, who can't afford to send their kid to an OT or pay for a support worker." Our perspective on what's happening depends on the view. Things look better from the inside, but that doesn't mean that perspective's warped. It's easy to divide the world into black and white, good and bad. The truth lies somewhere in between. That's our job here at abilityNEWS. To help you discern the shades of grey.