Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Te Reo Māori in schools:…, in reply to william blake,
Taupo. (toe-paw)
Gwarn say it like it is meant to be said.
instead we may hear this half-pai mangling:
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Hard News: Te Reo Māori in schools:…, in reply to Francisco Blaha,
When you learn a language as a kid you also learn a "different way of thinking" about the same things in your standard language, and that makes you curious and enhances your critical thinking. And that can only be good!
And you are a great thinker, sir. Sorry didn't get to say hello properly the other night. Love to you and your family.
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Hard News: Te Reo Māori in schools:…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I would love to see NZ Sign Language offered too (third official language and also indigenous to NZ)
yes
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Yes, let's just start. Being Pakeha involves understanding Te Ao Maori to at least some degree, and Te Reo is a key part of that. I'm very grateful for the opportunities I've had. I'd like others to have them too.
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You can't measure what people prefer by examining what they have previously been allowed access to. Local content quotas work which is why other countries have used them.
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a dunny brayed loudly
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*Our* volunteer energy.
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Thank you Ezekiel.
I've always thought civic involvement is a great focus to require more accessible communication from public organisations. It's why we trialled large print in the statutory Annual Plan process for the old Auckland City Council, though sadly further work to embed it was not done. It was also not extended to the internal materials like meeting agendas, though I started some work on that for Waitakere. You experienced what happened to potential leverage in the Manukau City process.
Once those communication and other basic barriers are removed a wider range of people can become more involved. However, we do need a conscious and ongoing investment in our capability to play a part after so long on the outside. That's going to take more than expensive (and therefore rare) individualised 'leadership' courses.
The one-off Making Honey seminar we organised during my time with DPA Auckland was about showing our community a range of options for involvement, from voting for NZ Idol to being a Member of Parliament. We ran out of volunteer energy to continue what was intended as an ongoing programme of events and work on that theme. For example, I wanted to take groups of disabled people to public committee meetings of Councils and District Health Boards, with discussion before and after about the process. Would have helped when it came to recruiting committee members in some cases.
I agree that even government agencies and disability organisations have not made that mental shift from us being able to vote for others to being elected and making the big decisions.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good ideas and grumbles, in reply to Russell Brown,
and they all inhaled
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to ,
recovering
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