Public Address | Cafe | Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s disability history – part one https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=332334#post332334 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=332334#post332334 YES!!!!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/63482391/IHC-arm-admits-part-in-bath-drowning

Nathan Booker's death at the hands of Idea Services.

Charged and convicted....and in the "crimes" section where it belongs.

A tiny, little win.

]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:51:10 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=332005#post332005 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=332005#post332005 Oh dear, oh dear, oh deary me......

Local hospital today, we were heading for the exit as a young man with Downs and his mum were on their way in.

Mum stood well back as the young man approached the volunteer 'help desk' to ask about blood tests.

I heard…

]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:48:43 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331974#post331974 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331974#post331974 Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:29:19 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331956#post331956 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331956#post331956 Hilary, Doc, you did just fine.

Like a pro....

and hot on the heels of the Robert Martin interview!

Was that serendipitous?

]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:10:19 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331955#post331955 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331955#post331955 You appear to be assuming that high need means only physical impairment, that’s all.

No, no, no, no, no!!!!

I could not have made my message anymore confusing if I'd tried.

If I have an area of particular interest it is what has become known as the Family Carers Case...more…

]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:07:47 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331949#post331949 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331949#post331949 Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:29:14 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331942#post331942 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331942#post331942 Other groups of disabled people such as those with impaired thinking also may have a high ongoing need for care services. You appear to be assuming that high need means only physical impairment, that's all.

One of the things preventing significant progress in disability politics is our fragmentation, mainly caused…

]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:04:26 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331941#post331941 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331941#post331941 Again, Hilary you hit the nail squarely on its head.

Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless the organisations representing the interests of disabled (and famiy carers) speak out loudly and clearly against government policies that perpetuate this gross disparity.

This will not happen unless this.... http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20141120-0735-community_groups_silenced_by_fear_of_funding_cuts-048.mp3

issue is addressed.…

]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:59:15 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331935#post331935 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331935#post331935 Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:20:13 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331851#post331851 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331851#post331851 the HIGHEST care needs

As I’ve said before, I’d caution against that assumption. It certainly doesn’t help collective action.

At some point Sacha...would it be possible to discuss this?

I am not sure what the issue is with me using this term.

]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:15:07 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331849#post331849 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331849#post331849 That means there is often no one in the hospital setting who knows the person’s needs. Some deaths have occured in recent years through such things as feeding issues. In busy hospital wards there is not usually the staff time to provde the extra attention.

Hah!!!

When HWMBO was in…

]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:08:38 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331735#post331735 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331735#post331735 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:06:28 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331708#post331708 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331708#post331708 Some DHBs still have disability committees and some have a bit of staff specialism but that does not mean crucial support in the ward situation.

The ineffectiveness of those advisory committess is revealed whenever action requires budget rather than gum-flapping.

]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:39:12 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331707#post331707 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331707#post331707 Double-dipping? Grrrr. Health agencies still have a way to go to understand health and disability are not the same thing. That reflects a disgusting lack of investment in leading better understanding.

One man pointed out that the DHB could have trouble getting up-to-date statistics on deaf people, since that question…

]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:36:24 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331699#post331699 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331699#post331699 Sorry, I forgot to put the slavery link in -oops
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/259584/hundreds-'live-as-slaves'-in-nz

]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:39:27 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331698#post331698 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331698#post331698 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:07:10 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331697#post331697 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331697#post331697 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:00:50 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331696#post331696 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331696#post331696 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:51:38 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331695#post331695 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331695#post331695 Here's one of the major current problems we have in our health system, brought up in a genuine consultation process by some of the people affected:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/259586/disabled-services-'left-out'-of-dhb-plan
Some health boards do have managers with responsibility for services for people with disabilities, but actual change at the nursing stations is extremely…

]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:40:46 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331675#post331675 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331675#post331675 http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/20157519/new-zealand's-candidate-for-the-united-nations-committee-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-for-the-2016-election-robert-martin ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:30:03 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331673#post331673 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331673#post331673 Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:40:39 +1300 Marc C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331218#post331218 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331218#post331218 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:26:01 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331217#post331217 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331217#post331217 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:19:50 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331216#post331216 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331216#post331216 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:06:39 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331209#post331209 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331209#post331209 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:29:47 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331203#post331203 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331203#post331203 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:57:58 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331180#post331180 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331180#post331180 the HIGHEST care needs

As I've said before, I’d caution against that assumption. It certainly doesn’t help collective action.

]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:23:55 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331163#post331163 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331163#post331163 and further to that, eugenics occurring in practice with some families visiting from Australia in order to sterilise children, which remains permissible in this country.

However, population changes mean that this treatment of the disabled community as "other" has become far more difficult. If we were more unified, a quarter…

]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:53:28 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331162#post331162 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331162#post331162 I have been surprised by some people's reactions to the original post that surely NZ wasn't as eugenic as other countries, weren't we nicer?

The reality is that governments govern for those like them (ie basically well-off white able bodied males). Any of our progressive policies such as votes for…

]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:00:15 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331160#post331160 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331160#post331160 It is important to review our history on a regular basis, if only to provide a baseline for comparison with the present, and make predictions about potential futures.

This is what the Ministry of Health is saying today,

''The Ministry of Health is committed to giving people with disabilities and…

]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2014 07:59:56 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331147#post331147 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331147#post331147 This is the sort of problem we have with our fragmented system
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/10689206/Family-seeks-support-providing-for-disabled-son
If this child's condition was the result of an accident, the family would have the vehicle fully funded by ACC, and the mother would not be risking her own health because of needing to lift him.

]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2014 00:14:59 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331146#post331146 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331146#post331146 After I had taken considerable trouble to provide detailed and largely negative feedback on the FFC process to the MOH, this is what Jill Lane as their media spokesperson had to say:

"We've had no complaints from these people who have joined the system that it's been difficult or that…

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:46:46 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331144#post331144 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331144#post331144 I welcome any history of the experience of the families and carers of disabled people over the timeframe Hilary covers here. Huge change from families being expected to support disabled relatives on the farm to putting them in state institutions.

Next chapter is the transition out of that, and yet…

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:05:08 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331142#post331142 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331142#post331142 And just to belabour the point, lest we forget, this is what the Ministry of Health thinks of disabled persons and their families.

" and it takes time for disabled people and their families to take up new options when they come available, we see that routinely with every other…

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:38:49 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331139#post331139 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331139#post331139 No, Hillary, I had not heard that there was to be a review of FFC....great...but I share Angela Hart's sceptisim....we are talking about the Misery of Health here....and if Carers NZ are representing all of us carers.....abandon ye all hope.

However....Funded Family Care got more than an passing mention in…

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:10:55 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331136#post331136 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331136#post331136 He's a hero

Indeed. Tried to buy copy online but defeated by website.

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:51:33 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331129#post331129 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331129#post331129 Great to hear Robert Martin's biography written by John McRae has finally been published. http://www.craigpotton.co.nz/store/becoming-a-person
In shops now. Can't wait to read it. I read an early draft and used some of Robert's information for earlier Access posts. He's a hero.

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:53:35 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331116#post331116 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331116#post331116 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:49:03 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331115#post331115 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331115#post331115 Sterilisation of undesirable people has been widespread everywhere and remnants remain with the debates about the sterilisation of disabled girls and women in many countries.

Most recently in New Zealand, this.

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:35:32 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331069#post331069 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331069#post331069 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:10:55 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331068#post331068 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331068#post331068 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 12:22:08 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331066#post331066 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331066#post331066 Sweden has a shameful eugenics past that was only revealed in the 1990s. But most countries do.

Having a chuckle here, Hilary.

Peter and I spend most of our time tiki touring and meeting up with allsorts on the road.

Fellow travellers/campers from all over the world.

At the moment…

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 12:01:10 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331064#post331064 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331064#post331064 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 11:05:00 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331063#post331063 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331063#post331063 Well, well, well, I thought that it was the Nazis that were blamed for all this kind of stuff, but New Zealand and other countries seem to have been doing the same, but did in the end not go quite as far as Germany did under Hitler and his criminal… ]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:49:00 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331061#post331061 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331061#post331061 Thank you Craig. Can it apply to social movements rather than professional orgs?

(Sorry the Reply linking system is broken at the moment for me).

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:35:21 +1300 Craig Young https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331058#post331058 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331058#post331058 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:24:04 +1300 Craig Young https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331057#post331057 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331057#post331057 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:22:44 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331056#post331056 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331056#post331056 occupational culture

can you explain this further for me – not a term I’ve seen.

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:07:50 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331055#post331055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331055#post331055 I have a memory of seeing a movie of Intensive Care, many decades ago.

Yes need to have more disability history in mainstream histories, in museum exhibitions, art etc. Most of our big written histories overlook disability altogether, apart from the occasional reference to mental illness. I have just been…

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:02:19 +1300 Craig Young https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331054#post331054 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331054#post331054 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:18:39 +1300 Craig Young https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331053#post331053 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331053#post331053 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:15:14 +1300 Craig Young https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331052#post331052 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331052#post331052 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:11:51 +1300 Craig Young https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331051#post331051 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331051#post331051 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:09:38 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331050#post331050 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331050#post331050 We have in New Zealand created two classes of people with disabilities.

Those with serious, permanent impairments under ACC enjoy rights, entitlements and supports that those with exactly the same disability under MOH can only dream of.

Somehow, we, as a nation think this is OK.

It isn’t.

This needs…

]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:48:12 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331042#post331042 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331042#post331042 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:39:39 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331041#post331041 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331041#post331041 Hope more people dive in and have a go at writing their versions/stories

Same. Thank you for getting us started.

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:26:55 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331040#post331040 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331040#post331040 The performance of regulatory agencies is part of it, contract obligations are part of it, but more broadly there is a curious passivity not obvious in other disadvantaged groups. A high value placed on being a good boy lest matron withdraw privileges, that sort of thing.

So I'm not confident…

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:24:50 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331039#post331039 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331039#post331039 too many disability leaders – a real reluctance to stand up to power.

because.....

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacs/pdf-files/Fears-constraints-and-contracts-Grey-and-Sedgwick-2014.pdf

Imagine, if, in an alternate universe, one quarter of the one quarter of the population of Aotearoa who identify as disabled paid $10 per year to support an organisation who would truly represent the interests…

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:37:53 +1300 Marc C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331031#post331031 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331031#post331031 A few years ago the government had set up a committee, which decided to abolish the Mental Health Commission.

http://my.lawsociety.org.nz/news/2012/committee-endorses-abolition-of-mental-health-commission

The position of the Mental Health Commissioner was shifted into the Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner, and for a few years now Dr Lynne Lane has held that…

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:39:16 +1300 Marc C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331030#post331030 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331030#post331030 Quoted: "In this context, Plunket was started in 1907 to train mothers to grow healthy little citizens and soldiers for the empire. Founder Truby King, who had a physical impairment, later became Inspector General of Health.

He, his wife and supporters were positive eugenists who believed that teaching mothers the…

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:51:02 +1300 Will de Cleene https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331028#post331028 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331028#post331028 My old man was a bit of a eugenicist, which was why I spent a great deal of my childhood hiding my deafness.

I did a bit of research into the history of deaf policy, seeing how most NZ histories on the subject tend to be school biographies, with all…

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:14:49 +1300 EliotBlennerhassett https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331026#post331026 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331026#post331026 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:31:51 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331020#post331020 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331020#post331020 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:29:52 +1300 WaterDragon https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331014#post331014 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331014#post331014 It has also affected the culture around too many disability leaders – a real reluctance to stand up to power

You’re right, Sacha-few too many individually focussed souls around but there’s another aspect to it too- there may have been a lot more standing up that was done, but it…

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:15:38 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331010#post331010 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331010#post331010 This is a version of State Power and its proponents in New Zealand that doesn’t often get explored, but somehow it still affects us today in many ways.

It has also affected the culture around too many disability leaders – a real reluctance to stand up to power.

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:13:16 +1300 David Herkt https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331009#post331009 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331009#post331009 I particularly found the quoted poem interesting.

“Oh Mother, save me from Dr. Gray

‘Cause teacher says he’s coming to-day

And if I’m stupid he’ll take me away…’

In Janet Frame’s novels [including the vastly under-rated 'Intensive Care'], there are many variants on this, in verse and in prose. Frame…

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:05:24 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331004#post331004 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331004#post331004 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:44:29 +1300 WaterDragon https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331001#post331001 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331001#post331001 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:31:14 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331000#post331000 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-some-aspects-of-new-zealands-disability/?p=331000#post331000 Discussion from blog post.

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