Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to Angela Hart,
Is there perhaps a money exchange in the building? A pharmacy?
A diamond dealer?
WTFF?
We’re a scary lot
I can see that. That hand moving towards the button!
Questions Need To Be Asked.
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Hilary Stace,
(By the way the new Australian minister for disability issues has helped with this othering by calling disabled people a burden on the state)
clickety clack, clickety clack...
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to Angela Hart,
Push the intercom button and you come up on a screen in Taikura’s reception
Hang on a minute….is that a camera I spy in your pic? On the intercom panel?
Please tell me it isn’t so…
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to Angela Hart,
This is a NASC. Can you believe it??????
Sadly, yes.
The very last thing the NASCs want is for actual disabled people to turn up at the office.
Goodness gracious me...we can't have that.
The NASC in Hamilton, Disability Support Link is...
Upstairs? Yes
Small lift? Yes
Mobility Parking? one park, up a narrow side alley, on a sideways slope
The last time we went to DSL....some years ago now (because we want nothing to do with them since they seem to think residential care would be appropriate for Peter) they shared a floor with a Probation Office. DSL's office was not wheelchair welcoming, and one had to wend one's way around desks in an open plan office to get to the private meeting room.There is a message being sent here.
Maybe we could compile a pictorial record of these examples of state funded disability providers failing to provide adequate access.
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to SHG,
Why?
Question to Gordon Thomas('Mayor' of Christmass Island)...
How do you feel about New Zealanders being held there?
I come at from this point of view: If somebody is born into our community, or is raised in our community, whose life is shaped by our community, whatever they do in our community, however they behave, however they function – we have to take responsibility for the shaping and outcomes of all our people, whether they’re born here or not.
from Toby Manhire's interview, from the link supplied by kw
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to kw,
Toby Manhire’s Spinoff interview with the mayor of Christmas Island here is interesting…
The whole idea of deporting people because they’ve committed crimes, versus not deporting people who are citizens who’ve committed the same crimes, is abhorrent.
We are all responsible for the care and nurturing of everybody that forms our society – we can’t sort of cleanse it from time to time by deportation or exile. That’s a couple of thousand years old, that idea.
Thanks for that link kw.
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Tom Semmens,
A rich, middle aged Pakeha calling a Maori MP “son”.
Watch his mouth...he nearly said "boy".
And the look on Carters face.
And Turei's hand gesture....
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Fox, Davidson, Turei...wahine toa!
I think perhaps Our Leader sees his Maori Party support disappearing.
No wonder he is acting like a cornered cat.
All hissy spitty....
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Alfie,
Or maybe he just waxes?
And I always thought he was merely a beardless boy....
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Hard News: After Len, in reply to Angela Hart,
one is the potential to get a lot more cars off the jam packed roads, and the other is to reduce the number of trucks.
And the trains largely run on electricity. If as a nation we embrace 100% renewable, sustainable electricity generation....we may stave off AGW a little longer.
Also...the compulsory water tank installation in pre - Super City days....how did that go down with the punters?
Would be a great idea for the rest of the City, if only to stop some of the storm water from flooding the sewage pipes and polluting your beaches.
Then you could all swim in the sea!
And the need for swimming pools would not be so big an issue.:-)