Upon visiting the State Library of Victoria on a warm February morning, Sam Wallman and Reuben Winmar speculate on what Ned Kelly might get up to if he was alive today.

Over the past couple of decades, disabled people in much of the Western world have often sought, or agreed to, more individualised funding schemes in order to gain greater “choice and control” over the support we receive. But the autonomy, dignity and flexibility we were promised seems constantly under threat or out of reach, largely because of the perception that allowing us such “luxuries” is too expensive.