Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie
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Good response to the Brian Rudman piece here from Jordan Carter about politicians squabbling over Auckland.
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Sacha, in reply to
Snap
It has been a longstanding habit of the National Party to favour the developers who think they own Auckland. Whether it is holiday highways to boost land values in the North, or the constant expansion of the city limits to let farmers sell land for housing, the pattern is always the same.
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It's all so frigging predictable isn't it. sigh! I really hope that Len and the Council stick to their guns on this stuff.
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Sacha, in reply to
Nice work, and good to see you here.
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Richard Christie, in reply to
Out of 1.0 ?
Does it need to reach some sort of threshold score on your personal importance scale before people are justified in trying to rectify a wrong.
I've been doing my bit for Thomas by hosting the Thomas Royal Commission report on the web for years. Until I recently uploaded it to Wikipedia it was the only copy available in cyberspace. What are you doing for Thomas?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I’ve been doing my bit for Thomas by hosting the Thomas Royal Commission report on the web for years. Until I recently uploaded it to Wikipedia it was the only copy available in cyberspace. What are you doing for Thomas?
Well, I bought a print copy in a second-hand bookshop ...
But you highlight a wider problem. The public sector makes a decent fist of accountability now, and Royal Commission reports get published online.
But older, culturally and historically important documents don't, unless someone cares. The Mazengarb Report was hard to obtain until a student called Jonathan Ah Kit scanned and uploaded it in various places. His copy is now the one used in tertiary courses.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Out of 1.0 ?
If the Arthur Allan Thomas case is a 1.0 for police misconduct, then yes. And the Arie case is steadily rising - it could even surpass it with newly emerging evidence.
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Library? Archives New Zealand?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Library? Archives New Zealand?
They have all those documents. Publishing them online, or detecting demand for them to be published online is a different matter.
I shall now jump on my perennial hobbyhorse about the need for a small, contestable fund for digitising heritage documents on demand. Giddy-up.
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Just thinking, in reply to
Absolutely
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Just before the Arie post fades away some good news. We finally have a Disability Commissioner, and such a great appointment in Paul Gibson. This role (in fact a whole disability commission) was something the disability sector asked for in the select committee on the quality and care of service provision of people with disabilities, which reported in 2008. Green MP Catherine Delahunty developed a private member's bill which was drawn from the ballot last year but the idea was taken up by the Government, and the role advertised earlier this year.
It will part of the role of the Disability Commissioner to investigate such injustices as happened in the Arie case, or any problems with disability services and support. Let's use it.
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Hasn't quite finished. Here's the police report on the Sunday programme
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Sacha, in reply to
Police had concerns over the actions of TVNZ Sunday staff and that was why they investigated the show, the spokesman said.
The concerns included "whether their actions may have constituted an attempt to pervert the course of justice by placing undue pressure on the property owners to stop them acting as complainants and whether there was a potential breach of the rules of sub judice, as the matter was at that time before the court."
and still the lying..
Police said they required a medical assessment on Smith-Voorkamp before deciding to uphold or drop the charges against him.
That process took six months and police dropped the charges against the 25-year-old once the report was received.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
The concerns included “whether their actions may have constituted an attempt to pervert the course of justice by placing undue pressure on the property owners to stop them acting as complainants and whether there was a potential breach of the rules of sub judice, as the matter was at that time before the court.”
Good grief. And this was the same senior officer who called the owners and tried to pressure them into getting TVNZ to drop the report?
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Sacha, in reply to
Obviously a fan of Rove.
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Obviously a case against the police for attempting to pervert the course of justice and wasting Police time would have much greater chances of success.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
And that smiley wavy hand job man wants to give them more powers to do as and when they please. Urgency is not the place to be eroding our civil rights, especially when law already exists to allow surveillance. Plus, Greg O'Connor should be fired for misleading the public.Hrrrumpf! Rant over :) Coat getting.
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Sacha, in reply to
The one who advocated attacking opponents on your own weaknesses as well as theirs.
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Just thinking, in reply to
Well said.
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Not aiming at derailment, just a little side-tracking: anyone heard of Aspiritech? It’s an organisation/company in Illinois that
champions the unique concentration and detail-oriented strengths of its 15 employees, all of whom have been diagnosed with disorders on the autism spectrum.
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Hilary Stace, in reply to
Pleased to see that an article on Aspiritech has made it to Stuff. It’s one of the companies that has been inspired by Danish Thorkil Sonne’s Specialisterne intitiative and now goal to employ 1 million autistic people worldwide in software testing by franchising this model.
There are a few such enterprises in Iceland, England and Scotland, and last heard India, inspired by Specialisterne. Our Russell B and some others in the sector tried to get him to NZ in 2009 when he was in Australia for the APAC09 autism conference in Sydney but the conference organisers wouldn’t let him come here (so much for sector solidarity), and now he is too busy and famous to come to NZ without some major organisational effort, But I heard him speak there and he is a quietly charismatic speaker with a powerful idea. He ran a conference earlier this year in Denmark for those interested in the franchising the concept which I would have loved to go to, but next time we should sponsor someone to attend. I also know of someone in Brisbane trying to get a similar enterprise off the ground.
Just needs someone entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and knowledgeable to initiate a project here. I would be happy to cheer them on.
It is not THE answer to employment and autism, but is one model that could benefit a lot of people in many ways.
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Sacha, in reply to
Just needs someone entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and knowledgeable to initiate a project here.
Tried. No support. Had enough.
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What happened? Didn't a recent Listener say they failing first time at something was a good thing, rather than a disaster?
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Sacha, in reply to
Been working in that space since 2003. Not a one-off effort. Wholesale issues.
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