About this Short Film
Keeping Our Lights On At Home (Angus McMillan & Peter Willcocks, Australia, 2025) explores the pressures around funding, government decisions and the systems that shape lives for people with medical disability and mental health conditions. The short film looks at how prejudice, stereotypes and stigma affect access to support, and at the efforts of groups pushing for fairer treatment. It does not offer easy answers, but it prompts important questions about whose needs are prioritised and how communities respond. Shown as part of the Focus on Ability festival, this film adds a thoughtful, human perspective to conversations about equity, support and inclusion.
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Angus McMillan & Peter Willcocks is the filmmaker behind this entry. See every Focus on Ability entry from Angus McMillan & Peter Willcocks.
A group of people who have experienced this system and studied it carefully nail the problems in a few words. They have all been active in pressing governments for real change but have all been ignored. A change of direction is essential.
A very good look at the reality of Home Support and all its faults and lack of appropriate funding and levels of needed care forcing people into RAC which is an option for some everyone should have CHOICE and being able to financially afford that choice . And the over 65 NDIS ruling continues to be an illegal decision. My team provide spiritual and well being support to HACC clients and loneliness and social isolation and carer burnout are the biggest issues we support our beautiful clients who long for continued HOMEFULLNESS indeed keep the lights on
One day everyone will get old and need care so this topic should never be cast aside but brought to the forefront because one day it will be you too.
The participants in this excellent film absolutely nail the huge problems facing the elderly under the Support At Home section of the new Aged Care Act. Congratulations and thank you to all participants for raising such an important subject.