Public Address | Cafe | Access: Stroppy parents and battling bigotry – what changes? https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=379315#post379315 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=379315#post379315 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 19:06:25 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372936#post372936 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372936#post372936 parents battling for education support for disabled children. ]]> Tue, 23 May 2017 12:52:25 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372911#post372911 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372911#post372911 Fri, 19 May 2017 10:55:12 +1200 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372402#post372402 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372402#post372402 More stroppy parents...

It was unfair, unjust, mean, nasty and discriminatory ....
....we will not let the MoH treat families like dirt....
....it was about time that the MoH stopped being vindictive and nasty...
....The couple regarded the ministry and its Minister as bullies...

]]> Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:45:33 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372244#post372244 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372244#post372244 Basin Reserve stand, one time school and centre for children with intellectual disability, likely to be demolished. ]]> Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:13:09 +1200 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372223#post372223 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372223#post372223 Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:01:36 +1200 John Farrell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372221#post372221 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372221#post372221 The education minister at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Algie

]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:32:43 +1200 daleaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372220#post372220 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372220#post372220 Really interesting, Hilary. Thank you.

I also had to research an early female social reformer for the DNZB and can confirm it is a task made much harder than it might be by the attitude of contemporary press that reporting what women wore to social functions was much more relevant…

]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:31:17 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372219#post372219 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372219#post372219 It was very hard to find any published material about her so it became one of those tricky but ultimately satisfying detective projects

Very satisfying, I'd imagine. Thank you for doing that work.

]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:21:15 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372218#post372218 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372218#post372218 Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:19:19 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372216#post372216 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372216#post372216 Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:10:58 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372215#post372215 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372215#post372215 But the Janet Fraser Memorial School was never built. The residents of Oriental Bay took a petition against allowing disabled children to be educated in their neighbourhood and the new National Party Minister of Education acceded to their wishes and withdrew funding.

Ye gods. You’d like to think this would…

]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:04:02 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372214#post372214 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-stroppy-parents-and-battling-bigotry/?p=372214#post372214 Discussion from blog post.

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