Posts by Sacha
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Up Front: How I Learned to Stop Worrying…, in reply to
When Sydney Morning Herald columns are syndicated here, it feels like a time warp.
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to
Keeping control of a budget is important but it shouldn't be the prime factor and it usually is, and it shows.
The irony as we've discussed is that they spend more money saying no than if they just got on with it and said yes.
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to
Thank you for that. And welcome to Access.
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Hard News: After Len, in reply to
Orsman had a deservedly shite reputation in the old Ak City Council. Never a kind word, etc.
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Up Front: How I Learned to Stop Worrying…, in reply to
AspieGrrl
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Up Front: How I Learned to Stop Worrying…, in reply to
Men are less likely to go to the doctor. They're more likely to die from homicide and suicide. They're more violent. They drink more. Why? Because taking care of yourself, physically and emotionally, is seen as girly.
Also because the skills to manage taking care of ourselves are not evenly distributed by gender.
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thinking that some of those men are there because they’re men, not because of merit.
This, especially seeing this week's nasty immaturity.
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Excellent. Snout likely to be shut down later this week. #karma
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ACC in court again.
Gordon Palmer sold his business to help his wife, as looking after Luke alongside two other young children became full-time work for two people. But the ACC only paid them attendant care for 35 hours a week.
"We ran his rehabilitation from home. It meant that we had another bed in Luke's room and we took turns sleeping in there with him," said Mrs Palmer. "We would wake up the other half whenever Luke needed turning or changing because he had wet the bed, or was having a seizure... it was intense."
Dealing with ACC was always difficult, they said. "I always feel stressed dealing with them because you feel like they're going to take something away from you," said Mrs Palmer. "They still don't give you a good indication of what you're entitled to," added Mr Palmer. "It's more a case of them paying what they have to, or what they can't get out of paying."
The Palmers are among 30 families battling for backdated compensation, but ACC argues if care was not given for a full 24 hours a day, it would not pay. The families have already won the case before the Accident Compensation Appeal Authority and in the High Court, and now go to the Court of Appeal in February.
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to
A group of students from Kapiti College were very impressive talking about earlier experiences of bullying and humiliation
RNZ Checkpoint item here.
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