Posts by Hilary Stace
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Parliament's Justice and Electoral Committee has just recommended that NZ sign the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. So when finally signed another avenue for redress for individuals will open up.
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Speaker: After the Apocalypse, in reply to linger,
Why then do traces of radiation show up in animals and trees around the world? They could age those very old Greenland sharks by radiation traces in their eyes of nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and 60s which weren’t anywhere near Greenland.
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Case closing summaries tomorrow and Thursday. Tony Ellis second.
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Ten months after the Chernobyl explosion my five year old daughter was diagnosed with leukaemia. She was in New Zealand and Chernobyl was a long way away but I have often wondered whether it had an influence. They say that every growing thing at the time on the planet has traces of the Hiroshima bomb, and the radiation fallout from Chernobyl drifted around the world. So who knows who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and became susceptible to the effects.
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Wonderful to see Kirsty talking about her research and writing about Ashley Peacock.
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Kirsty Johnston's latest article features a letter from Garth Bennie from the disability providers' network to the Minister of Health warning that the situation has similarities to that before the first Mason report in the 1980s. Annette King says at that time they first had to acknowledge that there was a crisis. Current government does not.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11701216 -
Apologies to the security guards who have actually been very polite and friendly to me each day. Today the security post has shifted further along the corridor. You still need to go through it to get to Court Room 6 (which has adjourned until summing up next week) but there must be some action in one of the other rooms they need to monitor more closely.
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I have a feeling that the Ministry of Health is seeking some guidance and answers through this court case. Something that they can also apply to Ashley's situation. They seem a bit stuck.
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Polity: Hekia's waynebrave, in reply to Russell Brown,
Wouldn't it be great if the Correspondence School had the innovative capacity to do that 'NotSchool' stuff. There are many people out there who could provide input about how to do it well. That would be an educational project we could support.
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I suspect this is one way to get rid of those pesky kids with behaviour or learning 'issues' which schools do their best to dissuade from attending. If there is a 'cool' then that is an official option to send them to. Tidy solution for the Ministry and Minister.