Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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More silencing of of science....http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1605/S00087/axe-hanging-over-our-changing-world.htm
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And speaking about the Media....
This article appeared on Stuff the other day...
Moko Sayviah Rangitoheriri's sister told social worker toddler was being abused
Seven-year-old Anna told Trina Marama, a trained social worker who worked for Te Whare Oranga Wairua Maori Women's Refuge in Taupo, that her three-year-old brother was being abused by Shailer.
The manager of the refuge, Mahia Te Tomo, said that Marama phoned Shailer to ask if that were true and Shailer blamed the seven year old for the abuse. Marama believed Shailer, even though the refuge was aware Shailer herself had escaped from a violent relationship with Haerewa and had returned to that relationship after Haerewa was let out of prison.
Marama supported Shailer at a meeting with CYFs on July 30, 2015, approximately 11 days before Moko died, where Shailer made allegations about Moko's mother, Nicola Dally-Paki.
But despite this, at no time did any adult from the refuge or CYFs go to the home to check on three-year-old Moko. Read said Shailer's allegation that the children were at risk from their mother was taken at face value. No checks were made of Shailer and Read said CYFs was unaware that Shailer herself had fled an abusive relationship.
Because CYFs took Shailer at her word, no one visited the home,
Moko died a miserable, painful lonely death.
According to the article, disclosures were made, and nothing was done.
I won't have been the only person bitterly disappointed by the inaction from Te Whare Oranga Wairua Maori Women's Refuge in Taupo to whom Moko's sister disclosed the abuse, and who did worse than nothing....they believed the abuser.
Yesterday Women's Refuge says that the claim that Moko's sister disclosed the abuse to Trina Marama from Te Whare Oranga Wairua Maori Women's Refuge in Taupo is untrue.
Florence Kerr's piece on Stuff goes into detail. She quotes the manager of Te Whare Oranga Wairua Maori Women's Refuge in Taupo...who says
that Marama phoned Shailer to ask if that were true and Shailer blamed the seven year old for the abuse. Marama believed Shailer, even though the refuge was aware Shailer herself had escaped from a violent relationship with Haerewa and had returned to that relationship after Haerewa was let out of prison.
Yet , Chief Executive of Women’s Refuge Dr Ang Jury, now says
This is untrue.
We had not heard any direct allegation from a child on our programme that an adult had physically hurt Moko or any other children. Had this in fact occurred I am sure the response would have been very different.
“It is only now, with the benefit of hindsight, that all of us can look back and wonder what might have happened if more was done for this family,” she said.
This is so much bullshit...
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Jonny Wilkinson, disability activist, encourages all to participate in the Revision of the Disability Strategy.
He is a representative with (Lived Experience of Disability) on the Reference Group and he speaks about the genesis of the current strategy.
The strategy had 15 objectives, spanning all the usual areas of one's life that largely dictate whether you have a decent time on this Earth, or a crap one. These encompassed education, leadership, cultural identity, employment and recreation.
So the time has come to rethink and renew the strategy and (to use good ol' Whangarei lingo) I'm stoked that I have been appointed to the review committee, responsible for this important work, albeit in an advisory role. The reason I wanted to be involved was to make sure that our disabled community are represented and have a say about the way forward.
One of the main issues of the first strategy has been its aspirational nature was let down somewhat by a low level of implementation.
With somewhat eerie coincidence, Jonny references Chris Ford's Master thesis from 2012....
....a link I have to hand since a friend emailed it to me the other day. :-)
Perhaps we could have the tee shirt printed... 2001 NZ Disability Strategy-High on Aspiration...Low on Implementation
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Legal Beagle: Cameron Slater: computer hacker?, in reply to Angela Hart,
Geddis at his bestest!
So far, so par for the course in Crazytown.
But what really, really, really provides the bright red cherry of irony on top of this delicious confection of egomaniacal delusions of being able to engage in House-of-Cards-style chicanery is the fact that the blogger who used to be semi-famous (Mr Salter, I believe) sought to have his involvement in this escapade suppressed by the Courts. Yes, the same Mr Satler who pursued a wonky jihad in opposition to the very concept of name suppression went in front of the District Court and had the gall, the sheer bare-faced effrontery, to ask that he be given the protection of the very laws he had campaigned so hard to have abolished.
AG must have been really, really, really holding that in for quite some time.
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Up Front: What Sorry Looks Like, in reply to Emma Hart,
swimming in a sea of Domestic Violence
Trigger alert.. seriously
Child dies because although they were told, the professionals did nothing.
Two of the professionals were from Women's Refuge.
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Up Front: What Sorry Looks Like, in reply to william blake,
Mates, having an in depth chat about political correctness, the media, New Zealanders being relaxed, golf, making a public fool of oneself...usual stuff.
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Up Front: What Sorry Looks Like, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I am choosing to believe that it was all about distraction.
When a 'mate' steps in and supports by association your 'rehabilitation', the least a mate can do is reciprocate.
I guess for some being re-issued as a lying piece of scum is just another day in the office.
Water off a duck's back.
And which of 'em gives a toss if the fallout re-victimises survivors?
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Well, bugger me dead Emma...that's practically verbatim what I was trying to convey to the blame -shifter on The Standard yesterday.
Kinda took it rather badly when I called him an enabler.
I still don't think he's got it.
Heavy drawn out sigh.
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Who wouldn't be into it???
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Access: Family Carers Case – Five Years On, in reply to Sacha,
And Tze Ming commenting, now she’s half a world away.
Having seen some of the 'cockblocking, mad bitchfacing action' while observing the High Court and Appeal Court hearings in 2010-11 (at one point I flounced out...slamming the courtroom door behind me (difficult, because they have those anti-slammy hinges) it was like a validation. The plaintiffs were subject to the same shit.
I wanted to reach through the screen and give Tze Ming a hug for saying that.Keith's post on this issue was GOLD.