Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Thanks. Read and discussed at the time, but there's still a gap between the academic discourse and policy implementation that seriously needs to be addressed. No one is, and it will continue to undermine other changes. Lacking both govt and community leadership, but there is little I can do to help fix that until it's taken seriously - a real Catch 22.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Like a pigeon having a nap on the lip of a jet engine because that sound is sooo soothing
..and birdstrike produces flames
#handymetaphor -
"May I borrow your sledgehammer, please," he asked.
Heh. And best wishes for the move.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Kracklite,
an awareness that someone is getting something that one is not also getting
So unfair..
(note: no source for pic, not mine, no rights asserted)
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to nzlemming,
or an ass
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Chris Waugh,
I can not for the life of me figure out why provisions for interpretation between all three of NZ’s official languages are not already available in Parliament.
To be fair to Lockwood, he has said he's willing to fund NZSL interpreters - but notetaking in English is beyond the way he's thinking about it.
The use of real-time note-takers is an interim measure until the House is made properly accessible. More permanent real-time captioning arrangements have been/are being scoped.
Paying for that may be more of a big deal. I tend to agree with whoever said upthread that there's some internal political pressure about being seen to control expenses, and Lockwood's ego has prevented the backdown which Welli insiders were confidently expecting him to make in his 3.30pm media announcement the other day.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Russell Brown,
It puzzles me that some people can't see how far she is already coming to meet the rest of us.
This. I had a similar conversation today with a Treaty of Waitangi claim negotiator.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to DexterX,
My thoughts are the situation between the Greens and Speaker illustrates how "we" fail to work co-operatively to overcome issues and play the victim card - something that both sides have played.
One 'side' has worked constructively and in good faith for a couple of months and has reacted to an injustice at this late stage. The other is a silly old man.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
“breech of privacy”
lycra can be a tad too revealing
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Craig Young,
If I were disability rights organisations, I'd target
quite
