Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
(And Giovanni wrote most of the article. I mainly found the references)
There have been a few Journal articles born in our family. I have a fairly good understanding of the attention required to produce such a piece...and the timing is exquisite. Well done both of you.
If Giovanni was the principal writer...he has most certainly captured the level of frustration within the community, without going full core ranty. (as perhaps the less disciplined of us might have done ;-))
Perhaps, with this, and the submissions to the select committee, the sheer volume of submitters....there may be a possibility of improvement?
Plug the time($$$) wasted in the bureaucratic process...appeal to their innate parsimony. Good luck!
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And this wee lass...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11546668
"Does autism make me bad?" ....seven year old.
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
wrote a bit
No you didn't!
The set of perverse incentives we
have described emanates from a system
that is almost pathologically obsessed
with costly verification, placing little or
no trust in educators and families. Under
this regime, it is not probative to say that
our levels of expenditure are relatively
high by international standards when so
much money is going towards guarding
access to resources, as opposed to enabling
inclusion.A few days ago Hilary you were talking about retirement....after the work that has clearly gone into this 'bit of' writing, the coordination involved with the articles in MSM and the select committee hearings...I think you can at least take a few days.
It must be soul destroying to look back and see that for all the talk, all the happy clappy press releases, all the submission writing and the report writing, all the surveys done by various government departments and NGOs....nothing has actually improved.
Lots of changes, which we all have to adapt to...but no real improvement.
No security of access and support.
Like this young fellow...http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11546513
Your work is appreciated Hilary and Giovanni...
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Hard News: The GCSB and the consequences…, in reply to Alfie,
Remind me again why the rest of us need intensive surveillance of all our communications?
To keep us safe Alfie, safe.
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And so it begins....
"The raid ... including 10 fighter jets, was launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Twenty bombs were dropped," the defence ministry said in a statement.
The operation, carried out in coordination with US forces, struck a command centre, recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot and a training camp for fighters, it said.
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Hard News: Ten Thousand Maniacs, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
That found passport bothers me –
Bothered our household too....
I'm told there is a bit of a fightback against the French Flag overlay on fb...
There is talk counteracting the promoted narrative.
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Hard News: Ten Thousand Maniacs, in reply to andin,
There is a simple solution but it requires humility by all parties and that doesnt come easily too many
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to Sacha,
Scan of the ‘correction’ notice from today’s Harold. Guess the editor must have been lawyered, or threatened with exclusion from the next eastern-suburbs garden party.
I don't do twitter...but the tweets following the scan read like "Yes, Prime Minister"...my bedtime reading this week.
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Yep....we might be at the stage where a journalist's worth is measured by how quickly their work is suppressed.
Good work Kirsty!
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Alfie,
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thepanel/audio/201778482/christmas-island
Michelle holds the Party line....