Posts by Peter Martin
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*laff* The kind of 'beware of what you desire' policy change, Graeme?
Perhaps Parliament could pass legislation exempting the Government from ever having to care for disabled people should one or more of their parents be alive...or perhaps seek a rebate from the parent(s) should the Govt take charge.But the change I would like is as Andre just mentioned:
the MoH should be viewing family carers as an integral part of the health strategy for disabled people. Supported and resourced, these people can have a profoundly positive effect on the quality of life of disabled individuals
and that of the carers.
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it takes its argument as far as possible.
Should the Govt lose the appeals, would we reasonably expect a change of policy in line with the HRRT decision, Graeme?
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I find myself contrasting relative efforts: that of Myers, whose contribution to New Zealand is tinged with self interest and gets a knighthood and that of Heather May and James Tuhoro who have fostered some 380 at risk children and receive a Queens Service Medal.
Perhaps, if Heather May and James Tuhoro had donated money instead of time, effort, love etc etc and then to a political Party...
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North-South divide - that's the Waitaki River isn't it?
Heh...indeed!
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There's been plenty of stock placed in the 80% approval rating it got through a series of hui - do you think these were stacked in Maori Party favour somehow?
Fair question, Gareth.
As Eddie on The Standard has just commented :
Sharples only offered four choices – the flag of the United Tribes, the New Zealand Flag, the New Zealand Ensign, and TTR. The first is the flag of only some iwi and the next two were joke options. TTR was the only real option, but that doesn’t change the fact that it has represented one strain of Maori activism until this point and is the flag of the Maori Party.
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I'm not that worried about the school reports comments...a indication of progress is fine with perhaps some detail if Things are going particularly badly. The practical dialogue happens at the parent/teacher meetings.
And every parent attends those...don't they...
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But acting as if some vicious con has been pulled on parents -- please...
I understand the con part was dropped at the select hearings on the Bill...
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Have we been told of other Ministers or MPs who are pretending to live somewhere other than Wellington so they can claim an allowance?
I think the closest ,recently, are the two Labour MP's that Russell mentioned in his piece,namely Bunkle and Hobbs.
Now while they their circumstances were just a little different...it isn't difficult to google and find out just how aggrieved the Opposition were at the time. All about rorts and entitlements and stuff. -
I'd like to introduce you to some medical professionals of my acquaintance who'd piss their pants laughing at the idea that a medical degree is a license to print money
A quick google and a range of anywhere from 150k to 250k per annum is indicated for a GP.
It is 2009, after all, and I'm frankly gob-smacked at anyone dog-whistling the idea that there's anything untoward about an MP's spouse working.
I'm not sure I have seen anyone moaning about her working...rather the top up English thinks is needed from the taxpayer so that the English family can afford to live in Wellington.
Seems a gross of just under half a million a year just doesn't cut it.I'd like to think we're a little beyond the idea that an MP's wife's pace is in the kitchen making lammingtons for the electorate AGM.
Dog whistle indeed.
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What possible financial risk could Bill English be facing that needs his house to be in a trust?
Not him I suspect,rather his wife. Presumably she is self employed and along with most other self employed professionals has separated the home from the business should the potential of liabilities she causes...or others cause...be realised.