ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on emergent forms of neoliberal technologies of reclassification to the Australian disability landscape which set up the normalisation of disability workfare restructuring post the Howard era with the election of the Rudd–Gillard Labor governments. Central budgetary concerns were numerous funding reforms to disability open labour market programmes and services, and to the sheltered workshop sector. As the disability movement has long argued, equality in policy representation is central to the democratic decision-making process and to disabled people's social inclusion, which 'requires innovative policymaking processes that are open, transparent and accountable'. Disability advocacy groups, families/carers and services well practised in lobbying local parliamentarians began to make a number of claims. The collapse of categories or the removal of previously available data from public scrutiny was a key strategy used to hide the real classificatory processes of the emergent neoliberal regimes of disability occurring on the ground.
