Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
The NZTA definition of Rideshare is
sounds like a taxi :)
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
How can an opposition MP "force" a government to do anything?
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Text of RNZ story contains link to that compelling audio. Should clarify Margaret's "they don't care" comment above is about public servants and politicians, not the lawyers and others who supported her long fight for justice.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
I don't read that as better - it's a court indulging a Ministry on the basis that they haven't had enough time to get their shit together on policy - despite billions and decades to draw on. Won't help adjust their attitudes.
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Kirsty Johnston's Herald story on the judgement. And her associated tweet makes it clear how much she cares:
She bloody won!!!
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Spencer case judgement delivered today - download from here. Awarded about $200k in backpay, and an order under the Human Rights Act for MoH to train their staff to respect human rights.
[218] We see benefit ... in an order under s 92(3)(f) of the HRA requiring the Ministry needing to educate its officers in the importance of the human rights of disabled persons and their caregivers. That is a dimension, which appears to us to have gained only belated recognition in the policy debate within the Ministry following Hill; and then, we imagine, as a result of the Tribunal’s Atkinson declaration. We make such an order.
The lack of repentance must have been obvious to the court.
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Speaker: Sprawled out, in reply to BenWilson,
I had to weigh up that precious extra kilometre from the city that we've moved. I can't any longer pretend to be a central suburbs boy, this is full West.
And the (finally) impending CRL construction effectively shifts you to Mt Albert. Good move.
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Hard News: Strange times with Starboy, in reply to Shulgin,
they are tunneling under my feet to achieve a loop
the tunnels are already there, 'neath the park
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Speaker: Sprawled out, in reply to Moz,
And FWIW Sydney has been trying the "second city centre" game for, oh, 25 years now, and it still hasn't worked very well. Even at 30 minutes on the train, every 10 minutes, people still won't go "all the way out there" for a meeting. Forget decentralising 100km up the coast to Wollongong or Newcastle
Yep. Humans love being where the social buzz is buzziest, even just for 'work'. Crazy.