Posts by Hilary Stace
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Kate - I just read this thread again and see now what you are doing. I have come across several such sources while doing my history of disability policy research. I will try and recall what they were.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Kate Hannah,
There have been several museum exhibits and art installations related to both the specific Nazi programme re disabled people (led by clinicians - and reaction to that is where our modern research ethics requirements have come from) and eugenic programmes in various countries particularly the US which had extensive sterilisation practices.
There is a collection of eugenic political pamphlets in the Turnbull Library from early in the 20th century including WA Chapple's 2003 Fertility of the Unfit which was published in several countries. I think not currently available as packed away somewhere while they renovate.
But are you just looking for fictional accounts of that particular programme?
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One of the many points about Occupy is that they have chosen their sites carefully to be central city and near major financial institutions. Hence Wellington's is not at parliament but across the road from the stock exchange.
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Babies and parenting rarely goes as planned - unexpected sort of childbirth is a good first lesson.
Danielle, my sister's baby arrived on due date, but with a little help. She could also be the 7th billion person on earth, and her child could be the 10th billionth or more. -
Congratulations Damian. Changes your life - being responsible for a little person (in my experience). A little person who may be growing old into the next century. All that stuff about what will life be like in a climate changed world, with who knows what technological advances. Up to us now to make sure things are OK for the next generation.
My mother was born in the first world war and was delivered by one of the first woman doctors. It was an era when a family car was a luxurious rarity and she remembered the first airline flight to NZ. By her death she was a keen emailer and texter.
My sister had a baby daughter on Monday night - as yet unnamed. There is something about holding such a little baby that is quite miraculous.
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I listened to this debate and kept thinking. 'I wonder what Graeme would say', so it was a pity they didn't ask you to fact check on the spot. So thank you for your analysis.
I think it is interesting that those who come from the least democratic parties complain about accountability on the party list. I had a friend standing for the LP list a few elections ago and it certainly was no jack up - just lots of meetings and speeches for those interested and every list spot was extensively haggled over. The other assumption is that electorate candidates are somehow more democratically selected. But that is an even harder process for someone who is talented and maybe a hard party worker, but not mainstream eg disabled or from an ethnic or other minority, or without the means to organise a large support group. And without intervention/affirmative action policies this has traditionally favoured white middle class men. I noticed that when the replacement for Simon Power was chosen recently, it was reported that John Key and Peter Goodfellow chose their personal favourite - which hardly seems an open democratic process.
The other thing about that debate was realising how much I miss Michael Cullen's witty one liners.
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Good policy just announced by PG and local LP Auckland candidates at outdoor public meeting to transfer money from holiday highway to Akld trains (50:50 with council). Still do some improvements to the road north but not that major new highway. Also some more investment in coastal transport.
Now just need to announce they won't to the useless and destructive Kapiti expressway and instead will electrify the train to Palmerston North or put it towards light rail in Wellington.
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Just watched them all including tonight's offerings. The National one looks like it is filmed in Turnbull House across the road from the Beehive and you don't need many people in that room to make it look full. That room is exposed to a lot of road noise so I wonder if that explains the background hum, or maybe they filmed it in the middle of the night which explains the dim lighting.
The Act one is scary while the Conservative man looks pretty friendly - I wonder if he will pick up Act's votes when they finally implode. Winston had trouble reading his autocue and Peter Dunne had been airbrushed. The Maori Party was full of the MPs' relations. Pity none from Mana.
But I was genuinely impressed by Labour's one. Maybe because I'm into NZ history and some of those images are very familiar - but I also thought some of their historical interpretation was pretty clever. It's almost like something from Te Ara and their easy-access history is very popular, and also gently emotional.
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What are the regulations preventing reselling of university library books? If they must be de-accessioned it is a pity they couldn't be donated to an event like the Downtown Ministry's annual book fair, and be snapped up by people who would appreciate them.
Some of us are having a little political letter writing event tomorrow in Wellington to advocate legislation for keeping public libraries free so that local bodies can't attack them, and it would be good for some more details so we can mention this travesty as well.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Islander,
One of the delights of working at the (then) General Assembly Library many years ago, was discovering the NZ fiction collection in a cupboard under the stairs. That's where I first came across Jean Devanny and her many leftwing stories of the 1920s and 30s. I find it sad that public libraries, and increasingly university ones, and not so long ago the National Library, are so ready to discard books unborrowed for only a short time. What is wrong with 50 years between readings?