Public Address | Cafe | Access: Is the tide turning for disabled floater voters – or are we becalmed? https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375982#post375982 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375982#post375982 Fri, 22 Sept 2017 23:23:33 +1200 Brent Jackson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375831#post375831 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375831#post375831 Mon, 18 Sept 2017 13:16:57 +1200 Ezekiel Robson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375822#post375822 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375822#post375822 My Voice Matters has been busy endeavouring to provide comprehensive, non-partisan information for all disabled people and our allies, on enrolment, voting, and the policies of parties seeking our vote.

Building on the voter awareness educational workshops and candidate forums we’ve been running since 2013, we have been growing our…

]]> Mon, 18 Sept 2017 07:58:54 +1200 Christine Peet https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375821#post375821 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375821#post375821 Sun, 17 Sept 2017 21:15:52 +1200 Katharine Moody https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375792#post375792 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375792#post375792 Fri, 15 Sept 2017 18:39:50 +1200 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375791#post375791 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375791#post375791 Being an obsessive compulsive more information seeker I followed the "Read the full policy here" link and got Mojo's 2012 document.

I know they're busy and all...but considering there has been outstanding work done by a couple of Green MPs on disability issues I expected better.

Having said that, I…

]]> Fri, 15 Sept 2017 18:09:08 +1200 Katharine Moody https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375789#post375789 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375789#post375789 the Green’s disability policy page has a very unfriendly ACCESS DENIED message.

Probably moved the page in an election policy re-design – try this one;

https://www.greens.org.nz/page/disability-policy

]]> Fri, 15 Sept 2017 18:01:42 +1200 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375787#post375787 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375787#post375787 This might be an appropriate place to share these….

National’s Disability Policy

Labour’s Disability Policy

Green’s Disability Policy

The first is pretty much what you’d expect…and if y’all don’t know how National rates disability issues then you’ve been living in a cave for the past nine years.

Labour has made…

]]> Fri, 15 Sept 2017 17:23:56 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375781#post375781 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375781#post375781 Thank you DPA for this series. I had intended to write something disability/election related but am suffering from fuzzy brain from election-itis which means I can't concentrate long enough to finish anything. Instead a lot of time is wasted on arguments in social media.

There are two policies I am…

]]> Fri, 15 Sept 2017 15:59:58 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375780#post375780 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-is-the-tide-turning-for-disabled-floater/?p=375780#post375780 Discussion from blog post.

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