Posts by Sacha
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Access: Words and Disability - The…, in reply to Angela Hart,
In the past they’ve claimed that people who weren’t actually disabled were answering that they were. Naturally, that’s grounded in a medical understanding. Failure to challenge them on it has been another crucial gap in govt action and community leadership.
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I did manage to influence the question in the main census to include impaired socialising. However it seems Stats Nz continue their ridiculous practice of suppressing all the answers. I’d like to do something about that.
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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
folk can get tunnel vision, only focussing on one issue and usually on their own experience
Yes, it takes more to understand how my experience relates to others like me, and to others unlike me.
Context is another leap again. Takes time and energy. On average, disabled people have less of both. Hence we need investment to level the playing field. And accountability to keep it that way.
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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
that persons 'testimony'
.. led to the closure of the North Shore and (less directly) Auckland branches shortly afterwards. Extremely unimpressed.
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Access: Defective, deficient, deviant…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
The Ministry of Health's recent Russell report Putting people first
Link?
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Access: Defective, deficient, deviant…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Emailed you.
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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to BDB Inc,
The new director of DPA is someone called Megan McCoy
do you mean the Office for Disability Issues in MSD?
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Access: Defective, deficient, deviant…, in reply to BDB Inc,
What happened to HDC patient rights, I was told by the HDC in a colorful way that they do not apply if you are disabled,
Can you explain more? I know law prevents HDC examining denial of service, but otherwise should be effective across disability services too, in theory.
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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to BDB Inc,
Without open honest talking nobody would know that their situation is not a one off thing, that other disabled people in NZ are experiencing the same discrimination.
Thank you. That's one of my hopes.
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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
failed to manage anything like a reasonable conversation about this with the top DPO
The then-head of that DPO was a witness for the Misery of Health *against* those parents and disabled people who took the case. #unfrickinbelievable
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