Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Andre,
They had a policy of hiring people with disabilities for 25% of their staff
Which is what they're not doing now - simply requiring public agencies to hire rather than bribing them at great expense. There are pros and cons, naturally. I'd forgotten that story so ta for reminding us.
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Tamara,
Oh I'm hard to offend. :)
I am saying that everyone gets support in some way or another - we just ignore some of the more obvious sorts.
As colleagues have pointed out to me, we routinely provide PAs for senior managers. We provide chairs in offices and other venues for people other than wheelchair users who bring their own, for example, and blind people effectively subsidise room lighting for everyone else. Yet that's 'normal'.
The education sector is particularly good at identifying and providing what most students need to help them learn - but it stuffs up by labelling some as 'special'.
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Radio NZ story from yesterday begins with actual audio of Harvey's sentence (4 mins, listening options).
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Jackie Clark,
don't they all?
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Jackie Clark,
That's a valid critique. Are your professional circles discussing similarly?
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Jackie Clark,
inclusiveness - which in and of itself is somewhat of an obnoxious notion, in my opinion
I'd be interested in hearing more.
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Jackie Clark,
children with special needs (once again, not a term I like using)
Let's stop then - options include disabled children, children with disabilities, or even 'children'.
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I'd politely observe that the rest of what you say contradicts your first sentence, which is my point. Scarce resources are wasted by subsidising salaries rather than other things that might get more disabled people into work or make the experience more valuable.
Glad to see the programme now includes training for employers, but would welcome links to any evidence reviewing Mainstream's effectiveness or justifying its design.
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Chris Keall has a longer story about the context for the Judge's remark.
Given the extreme consequence of Judge Harvey's one-liner, it's worth looking at its context – which includes his broader assertion that NZ copyright law protects not just a copyright holder, but an audience's right to access content.
That is 100% true, but also wildly unpalatable for Kim Dotcom's foes. A US-driven chapter of the TPP would over-ride that philosophy.
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to Jarno van der Linden,
Not so much 'personal feelings' as an opinion based on evidence by anyone who knows the subject area well enough.