Posts by Sacha
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This may shed some light on DPA's current approach to change:
[CEO] Rachel [Noble] says, “It is easy for us to go back and say what was done to us and what was done for us. Our future is what is done with us. We have a partnership with Government which is great, but we also need to establish partnerships with other sectors, such as business to help us champion our rights (this is called civil action).”
Rachel concludes by saying “DPA has introduced the concept of ‘I am Able’ and we have a ‘I am Able’ website ready to launch, but as an organisation we don’t want to own the concept.
“We want to start a civil action/ social entrepreneurial movement in New Zealand involving everybody who wants to claim full citizenship for disabled people.”
And the major player in their world, the government's Office for Disability Issues, has a new CEO who is also promoting partnership as a key way of working.
I support all that, but not at the expense of de-fanging some of the only resourced national organisations whose job is meant to include representing forcefully the interests of all the disabled people who don't have a seat at the table. Begging for crumbs and a pat on the head is not going to cut it. They need to be able to tell us all what real results they have achieved in our name.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
And their goal on the day?
DPA hope that the Committee will act on our recommendation to do a review or inquiry into this legislation, so they can hear from more disabled people and their family members on this issue.
Only in the stultifying climate of Wellington bureaucracy would 'hoping' for an inquiry be seen as activism worth the effort.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
What we were doing in Auckland at one stage, frankly. And in other times and places throughout the history Hilary has been traversing. Just not really the whole country for some years now.
Hopefully that will come right eventually, though the DPOs seem to have committed to meekness for the time being. Ezekiel has illustrated the consequences of that pretty well. Interesting that the organisations getting quoted in media over the last couple of months have been the large service providers CCS and IHC again.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Angela Hart,
These pilots, with their obvious benefits, are put forward as if universal access to them is around the corner. It isn’t.
Yes, Enabling Good Lives is a classic of the genre.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Ezekiel Robson,
Thank you. Until we sign up to the Optional Protocol, the UN Convention means very little to NZ politicians. Unless coherent, smart NZ disability activism makes them take notice.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Marc C,
it seems to be more about “campaigns” of awareness
Where though? They seem to be frittering their limited funds on propping up small-scale local community projects that would have got funds elsewhere previously.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
quality of life, human value, happiness, merit, achievement, virtue, contribution, or potential
brilliant
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Robert Martin at the United Nations
First person from the world's intellectually-impaired communities to ever speak in that place. Another proud moment for New Zealand.
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Thanks, Hilary.
Significantly, the Office would have a governance group of consumers – disabled people and advocates.
Governance? Despite being called a 'Council' wasn't that just another *advisory* group with no decision-making or budget-setting authority?
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why I find the Commission so fabulous they're probably brunette and have an opinion on the Oxford comma.
I love them already.
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