Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Works in progress, in reply to
I also researched O Connell in the same manner. Huge issue with it being a straight, smooth racetrack like the Wellesley end of Elliot St. Design does not follow international shared space practice where not only pedestrians are meant to induce uncertainty for drivers but trees and street furniture not laid out like a poplar-lined avenue.
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Hard News: Works in progress, in reply to
These people are hurting themselves more than anyone else.
They're hurting their neighbours. If it was just themselves, we could wait for the market to fix their attitude.
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it wastes so much scarce money, as you say
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I think it’s the parking that really should go, off from main routes, but that will face very stiff resistance from local residents and retailers. And on the numbers using the facilities they do have a point.
That's the major resistance, yes, despite overseas evidence that retail sales increase when carparking is replaced by better pedestrian/cycling access. It's also what's preventing High St being turned into a shared space despite the existing ones reporting 400% increases in retail sales.
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Hard News: Works in progress, in reply to
instead spend all the money on the flat side and make it genuinely viable
by purchasing and removing one house to eliminate the silly detour back to Dom Rd, for instance.
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Hard News: We can make things better here, in reply to
How do people who do not know what they are talking about continue to get media time?
Fewer/lazier producers? No researchers any more? No professional or human pride?
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Access: Funded Family Care from a…, in reply to
what about Corrections?
Anne Tolley having had that portfolio and now MSD could be interesting when she considers the relative willingness to invest in employment/skills training.
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FFC was NOT what the case was about
I thought govt's fear was a precedent broader than disability services (eg: aged care) about what they could legally offload onto family/community rather than state or private service providers. Big changes in MSD services probable soon, including PPP-style long-term agreements. Clearing the decks legislatively with such a vulnerable, socially-unvalued target must have seemed the easy thing.
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Just published a companion post from a recipient of Funded Family Care.
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Thank you. Interesting to hear another angle on this process that Rosemary wrote about recently.
I'm hoping people and organisations can push the government to widen eligibility and reduce the ongoing compliance effort for disabled people and our families.
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