Public Address | Cafe | Access: Robert Martin: The advocate without limits

Hilary Stace

Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:30:25 +1200

Their website says workers are on individual employment contracts. People First has a great plain language employment contract that they have developed, but I doubt that they use that one.

Sacha

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:50:47 +1200

Recommendations on removing the exemption were due to go to Ministers in June.

Angela Hart

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:40:53 +1200

I wonder what Robert would make of the free prime time advertising just provided to Altus Enterprises on Seven Sharp (which I only watched because Hosking wasn't there). I'd feel a whole lot more comfortable with Altus if I didn't know that they pay some people considerably less than minimum…

Marc C

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:20:30 +1200

Quote: __"When Robert reached 15, the State tossed the angry teenager out of care. He had been denied not only human rights, but culture and identity. He often relates how as an institutionalised child he never heard of the All Blacks.

As a young man in the late 1970s he…

Hilary Stace

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:31:27 +1200

Even got the briefest of government notices of motion in Parliament today. The National MPs behind Anne Tolley have no idea who he is http://www.inthehouse.co.nz/video/43955

Hilary Stace

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:43:47 +1200

To be fair, since I wrote this post this morning, there have been some media articles. Radio NZ, the Herald, Newshub (TV3) and even TVNZ have reported his win. But media usually loves to report a competition where a New Zealander has a chance on the world stage, so it…

Public Address

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:43:47 +1200

Discussion from blog post.