Posts by Hilary Stace
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One of Greg O'Connor's first tweets after setting up his @GregOhariu twitter account was about the Knox case. It will be good to have him as a politician who is informed about the issues from personal and professional experience. Worth watching.
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Ministry of Health sees no responsibility to improve services!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/89179500/Autism-NZ-calls-for-respite-care-overhaul-after-Donella-Knox-case -
Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
He also has a son with those 'high and complex needs' we've been talking about recently, and is on the board of Hohepa. He might have useful things to say about improving disability support..
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Coincidentally, my friend Robyn Hunt wrote this for the Spin Off http://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-02-2017/on-donella-knox-her-disabled-daughter-and-the-so-called-mercy-killing/
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I focus on autism but disabled people with so called 'complex needs' usually have lots of labels, and these can change over time. The stresses remain the same.
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We have been looking through my mother's large portfolio of poems. Here is one appropriate for Waitangi Day week.
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my husband's uncle
who I remember
could remember his grandmother
who could remember Hone Heke
She was a missionary's daughter
survived - like her grandson - into old age
but never forgot those early days
the threats and the excitement
her Maori remained fluent..... -
Access: Help needed! Deciphering the…, in reply to Angela Hart,
Just imagine the purpose built house and 24/7 care in the community he could have had for this amount of money.
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One more go at this year's pink tree
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Boulder and adjacent bench
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Another interesting piece of information about my mother was that the local doctor who assisted at her birth in 1917 was Margaret Cruickshank, who then became her godmother. Dr Cruickshank was one of the first NZ woman doctors and is commemorated with a statue in Waimate. Unfortunately She died the following year in the flu epidemic.
