Across Australia, more than 46,000 clients under state control are prevented by law from being identified, but there are growing calls for change. Some say gag laws that were designed to protect vulnerable people are shielding these agencies from scrutiny.
Uli Cartwright spent five years filming a documentary about his life and struggles with disabilities. He hoped it would inspire others.
"I wasn't paying my bills on time … and the group home that I was in thought that it would be easier to control me by putting me under a financial administration order with the Trustees," he says. From the time Uli Cartwright was born, he has been unable to eat or drink due to a chronic lung condition and receives all his nutrition via a tube inserted in his stomach.
Greens senator Jordon Steele-John is among those pushing for the gag laws to be reformed across the country. During that time, we've received hundreds of emails from families complaining about Public Guardians which have put their loved ones into aged care and group homes against their will.
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