Human Rights Matter, Barbwire Noose Clothing TVC airs on Imparja Regional Free to View Television April 2025.
Free Speech, Fair Trial, Right to be recognised as people under the law.
'Imagine for a moment that you were disabled - unable to move to push somebody away or feed yourself. Unable to speak to say “no”, “that food is too hot” or that you are “hungry”. Yet you could ‘feel’ hungry, comprehend sound, shiver because you were cold. Close your eyes for a moment and really think about this reality.
This is the reality of four out of five clients (our peers), I cared for as a ‘Disability Officer’ employed by the South Australian (SA) Labor government, who lived at Sharley House, Mount Gambier during year 2004.
The organisation IDSC re branded too Disability SA and I (Marcia Anita Hobbs) reported the criminal negligence to management and the disability minister (at this time) – Jay Weatherill. This is ‘The Story Behind the Brand – BARBWIRE NOOSE’ CLOTHING. My human rights activism for the voiceless, for all of us started in year 2005.
I am a lover, not a fighter. Yet for my disabled peers I have fought for their justice for over two decades. Taking up the government employment role in the disability sector in year 2003, I was pushed out of this sector in 2007. Reprisal for seeking justice - the right of our disabled peers to be recognised as people under the law; a Human Right. Article 16 states: Everyone shall have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. A fight that inspired a brand, a movement, a chapter in both book and time which drove the registration of the trademarks ‘Fear Is The Root Of All Weakness’ and ‘Barbwire Noose’.
Severe criminal negligence – Medical, nutritional, physical, sexual offences committed against mute unable to communicate (write, sign language, speak), fight, move away disabled peers. I was only 19 years of age when I took the position with IDSC as a disability officer. The Truth Matters. Human Rights Matter. is ‘The Story Behind the Brand – BARBWIRE NOOSE’ CLOTHING, my story – their story, our story. A true account of no matter how big or small, rich or poor, boy or girl - we can all be heroes and make A Better World.
In my 30s I could never have imagined advocating victims’ rights, human rights including freedom of speech I'm fair trial with a global a publication, a submission to the Disability Royal Commission and incarceration record facing and character assassination designed to hide - oppress the truth.
An act of heroism as many have commented and complimented. I do not see myself as a hero. I see myself as a little girl - just over 5 feet tall, averaging approximately 50 kilograms - locked in protest fighting for Human Rights – the entitlement of an apology for the voiceless from the government regarding the malfeasance and crimes committed against their human lives.
I would like to think everyone would fight for disabled people, those weaker than you - our human rights. Unfortunately, this is a naive reality. The truth traumatic, weaponized, and ignored by government with authority assistance.
I kept an autobiographical (Political Prisoner #192703 ISBN: 9780645786095) account of my time spent in Adelaide Women's prison due to cover ups in government sectors. A battle, advocating and hoping to survive a moment in time, that seen my ‘One Love’ clothing brand debut its first television commercial promoting human rights broadcast on Channel 9. I watched my clothing brands advertisement of its biographical book (The Story Behind the Brand Austin Macauley Publishers UAE) and Barbwire Noose successes/establishment from the confinement of a prison cell. The book calling for an apology from the SA Australian Labor Party government, lead by Peter Malinauskas (2024) which he received at his Port Road office in October 2023. Peter Malinaukus (2024) ignoring the facts for over a year.
Autobiographies, a brand dedicated to ‘A Better World’ – Human Rights. The autobiographical series ‘ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY – Judgement and Perception have NO Value Here’ Books full of candid facts, experiences, quotes and open to interpretation depending on where the reader's head is at – judgement, education, my life and thoughts. Stories of the heart, mind and soul consisting of personal views, knowledge and life experiences as well as light-hearted, comedical references, poetry and more.' - Author manuscript draft.
Quoting a letter to Professor Fatima Meer from the book ‘Conversations with Myself’ by Nelson Mandela: “The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements. What a sweet euphemism for self-praise the English language has evolved! Autobiography, they choose to call it, where the shortcomings of others are frequently exploited to highlight the praiseworthy accomplishments of the author.” Reading this as a true crime’s writer, an author of biographical literature; I could relate to Nelson Mandela's view of the autobiography. Though I have made sure my life's evolution in its imperfections and perfections, have been equally shared, I cannot help but feel at times the personalness of my autobiography's have truthfully and graphically shared shortcomings of others - not just my own. Being mindful not to brag yet proud of my achievements, this euphemism interpretation is bang on the realities of biographical record. The highs and the lows of life, often shared moments. When the hunter talks of killing the lion, it is the hunters life that is glorified, though the lion has great achievements of its own unshared as a hunter only knows his own life and the lions role in it.
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