Posts by Angela Hart
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Thanks David, your post has put a smile on my face.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand's…, in reply to Sacha,
Our activism should be for big changes, not individual pieces of equipment.
+1
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Although physical disability was not as shameful to families as intellectual disability, services were often hard to find.
Shame. That's my understanding of the cultural response to disability in the Islands, correct me if I'm wrong.
When you look back you see how much things have (slowly) changed for the better. I was struck by the thought that if my daughter had been born and diagnosed only a few years earlier, I would have been pressured to give her up, it's an impossibly destructive concept, all of our lives would have been blighted.
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I don't understand where the DHB comes in. It'll be Taikura or ACC using Accessable. If you are not the sort of person who can keep reminding and pushing the system along, these things can and do take years with both Taikura and ACC. One of my neighbours waited years to get a ramp so that they could get a mobility impaired adult in and out of the house safely- he died months after the ramp arrived. The kitset metal ramp subsequently took little time to be disassembled and taken away. Another neighbour is covered by ACC and is still waiting for wheelchair access to his unit about three years after his doctor told him not to keep walking on his prosthetic because walking is causing further spinal nerve damage. The small outside lift required has been promised for February but I'll believe it when I see it, promises have been made and broken time and time again.
Unless you have enough energy above what it takes to manage each day, and the fortitude and attitude to keep pestering the agencies, it's not unusual in my experience for essential ramps to take years. Most people don't want to publicise their situation or to complain and they shouldn't have to. The system just doesn't work well for those who need it most. -
Some powerful double speak by Bill English on the Nation today. Did you know this government is the most transparent we've ever had?
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/260562/govt-'the-most-open-nz-has-had'I thought Bill had qualms but he must have been treated for them.
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Speaker: Market failure in the research world, in reply to mpledger,
All the university libraries I have been to are pretty much "walk in and use". Even the computer don't need a login/password unless you want to reserve something. Most academic search engines allow you to e-mail a paper to yourself so you can hop on a computer, search and e-mail pdfs
I've used the UoA science and engineering libraries and VuW's library while neither staff nor student.
yup, that's true but you have to be able to physically go there and even that won't get you into the med library, which is where I'd most often want to be.
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New Zealanders have until tomorrow to make submissions on the Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill
the online form is here
http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/sc/make-submission/51SCFDT_SCF_00DBHOH_BILL60721_1/countering-terrorist-fighters-legislation-bill -
Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to DexterX,
The Hallmark of Keys stewardship
An outstandingly successful tactic is to accuse the person you've victimised of the very action you took against them. We're seeing it now with Goff being accused of leaking the report early.
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Speaker: Market failure in the research world, in reply to keeaa,
you are probably right there, although under the present conditions, the libraries do not have a choice, they must provide access to the information and have little control over the cost of that. So cutting their budget makes no sense, even to bean counters- provided they accept the premise that research libraries must offer access to this information.
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Speaker: Market failure in the research world, in reply to keeaa,
All that camapigning on this issue is likely to do is draw negative attention to research library budgets and cause them to be cut - result: even less access for N.Z. researchers.
Welcome keeaa! But I don't agree with your implication that we should keep quiet and do nothing.