Posts by Sacha
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Access: The Problem with the Greens’…, in reply to Jonathan Mosen,
each disability type perhaps needs to advocate for itself
That benefits those with an historic advantage like the blind community, certainly. But it is largely what has been going on for decades, so I think we can make some judgements about how well it works overall by now.
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Funding for personal disability support services was shifted from social welfare to health portfolios to help Ruth Richardson make certain political claims at the time. The problems of health managers not understanding the difference between illness and disability have persisted since.
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Access: The Problem with the Greens’…, in reply to Jonathan Mosen,
being so dismissive of the needs of blind people in this case
Two of the three options I suggested as priorities meet the needs of people with impaired vision. Who else's needs do you reckon are less important?
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Access: The Problem with the Greens’…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
“the voice of all disabled New Zealanders”
which it has never credibly been.
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Access: The Problem with the Greens’…, in reply to George Darroch,
If they were able to work together, we would see a stronger political voice, and a stronger set of outcomes across all disabilities.
Quite. Inadequate leadership and lack of investment in the infrastructure to support such collaboration. I lobbied - and worked hard - to solve that for many years, and you see how fruitful that has been.
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Access: The Problem with the Greens’…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
For those disabled with high and very high and complex support needs “participation, socialisation and inclusion” are impossible without having these basic core care needs met.
And meeting those needs must be high priority, yes, on the basis they have no other options.
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Access: The Problem with the Greens’…, in reply to Jonathan Mosen,
It should either be done properly, or not done at all.
With respect, I believe such a politics of perfection has held back progress because agencies are afraid to even start improving things. Because of the complexity of disability, there’s no way every initiative can work for everyone. If we wait for that, we’ll be waiting an awfully long time. And so will everyone else who needs change.
I addressed this in Council disability policy by insisting on constantly being explicit about who was affected by every initiative and monitoring equity between population groups over time.
For public agencies, that means a combination of how many options people have to meet their needs, and how many people are affected. Businesses may make slightly different assessments including the timing of costs and payoffs and where they believe their market lies.
In any case, I’d recommend organisations implement properly-structured html, machine-readable large print and NZ Sign Language options before most others. They also need a broader framework for understanding communication access, equity and universal design – and that’s where govt and community organisations have really dropped the ball.
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Can you link to your thesis, Jonathan. I for one would be interested to read it.
Though ideally there would not be any rationing of resources or policy attention, the number of New Zealanders with impaired hearing greatly outnumbers those with impaired sight. The Greens also have that internal mana to draw on from Mojo's well-publicised early experience in parliament.
I'm delighted to see a disability policy which does not emphasise personal disability support services - knowing that any coalition will have other parties which pick that up. Some specialisation by parties is great.
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bonus points for crossing a railway
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'm not sure I have it in me to do that any more. Fuck them.
a fair response. we're not obliged to waste energy on moral turds.
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