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		<title>Public Address | Cafe | Access: Harry Potter and the covenant of hope</title>
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				<title>Angela Hart</title>
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						<p>Anyone in Otago? This lecture looks interesting.<br /><a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/news/otago117049.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/news/otago117049.html</a></p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:05:42 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
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						And I’d rather stop using the word ‘disability’ to describe impairment types altogether. It's a social process, not a personal characteristic.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:34:05 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						People First members decided they preferred the term learning disability which is the term used in the UK. But ID is still widely used (including by me)
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				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:05:28 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Graeme Edgeler</title>
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						<p><q>Robert is a New Zealander with a learning disability (we used to call that an intellectual disability).</q></p><p>I had no idea we'd stopped &ndash; sorry if I've been offending anyone over the last couple of years!</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:56:14 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						My thought too. There are many contributors to this blog who have considerable interest and expertise in this area who could be nominated if we had a chance such as you and Rosemary McD (and of course RB himself) for a start.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 08:21:03 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
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						One of the main priorities is defining a common cross-tab question about disability across all government-funded datasets ($90m/yr just from StatsNZ) &ndash; reflecting a modern understanding of disability rather than 'what's wrong with you?'. My hourly rate is increasing as we speak.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:11:09 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
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						Great news. Not expecting an invite given my lack of membership of any of the approved organisations despite being an inadvertent expert in the area.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:06:50 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						As a result of her trip to the UN the Minister has announced a new Disability Data and Evidence Working Group. It seems that people will be selected and nominations are not being sought. <a href="http://www.odi.govt.nz/what-we-do/better-evidence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.odi.govt.nz/what-we-do/better-evidence/</a>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:03:14 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Paul Williams</title>
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						<p><q>Thank you, Paul. You and Robert are both amazing role models. We are lucky to have you.</q></p><p>I sincerely hope Paul you have time to blog more. As Sacha's said, role models like yourself and Robert are essential both to those you represent and as a standard for all advocates.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:15:17 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						<p>Great to have this post from Paul and news about Robert who has featured before on Access posts. Hopefully our Minister of Disability Issues is learning a lot from them on this trip.</p><p>The latest iteration of our Human Rights Act makes Paul's job slightly more secure, unlike the Australian…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:01:39 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
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						Thank you, Paul. You and Robert are both amazing role models. We are lucky to have you.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:26:51 +1200</pubDate>
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:26:51 +1200</pubDate>
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