Posts by Hilary Stace
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Access: Lest we forget: the influenza…, in reply to Ewan Morris,
The baby on the Talune was at one time my mother-in-law, who died in 2000. She was a wonderful story teller. After they arrived in Wellington they lived in the Nairn Street Cottage museum with her father's family. Two adults and babies lived in that small front room.
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Access: Lest we forget: the influenza…, in reply to Bevan Shortridge,
Thanks for this. Yes I'm sure there are letters and diaries all over the place. But the flu hasn't had a fraction of the recent attention that the war has had so people might not realise the significance. 9000 deaths in a couple of months is pretty dramatic. InWellington they wrapped them in a sheet and put a name tag on the toe and the bodies would be transported to the cemetery for burial. Most families and communities would have known of people who died or survived. It would be great if they donated them to an archive or library.
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Volunteer Wellington has just published a booklet about the Wellington volunteer response. Link to pdf on this page (scroll down) https://volunteerwellington.nz/index.php/resources.
There has also been a project to find the stories of flu victims buried in Karori Cemetery
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My daughter and I usually host the wider whanau for Christmas. That means a midday meal, other events over several days, and one or two out-of-towners staying. Although everybody contributes food and drink, the actual planning starts a couple of months earlier and includes - as well as the process for agreeing on what everyone will bring, secret santa etc - household maintenance, gardening, cleaning windows, hiring the rug doctor for carpet cleaning, and ensuring there are enough acceptable chairs, cutlery, plates and everything else that could be possibly needed. Weather contingencies mean various scenarios. This year we have even bought a new dishwasher and oven as they will be in constant use. All this planning and preparing ensures the one time in the year that we all catch up runs more or less smoothly.
So I was bemused when a certain male suggested, "You don't need to worry about Christmas, it just happens".
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There is an interesting conference on Labour, Employment and Work (https://lewconf.co.nz/) taking place this week in Wellington. Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any papers on disability. I considered putting in an abstract, but couldn't afford another conference (fees and time are expensive when most of your work is voluntary and your income comes from a few contracts).
But this is symptomatic of a bigger problem. Although 24% of the population identified as disabled in the 2013 census we have no academic departments or network of scholars or academics critiquing or advocating on disability issues. Again, disability is niche - assumed to be neither interesting or relevant to the wider population.
I wonder how this could be turned around?
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We have some recent NZ disability employment guidelines
https://www.nzdsn.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/F_7270-NZD_Employment_Guidelines_WEB.pdf
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Access: Jacinda, please can you help…, in reply to Kevin McCready,
This sounds great in theory but I wonder whether it actually means real jobs for real people.
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My email to Jacinda must have woven its way through the bureaucratic ether and this afternoon I got a phone call from someone in Work and Income's employment service asking whether I was looking for some help with finding Oscar a job. He could meet with him and have a chat about options, but as Oscar was on the Supported Living benefit he was not obligated to work. I said I was not specifically looking for work for Oscar (although that would be great) but the thousands of disabled people generally who didn't have jobs.
It turned out the email had landed in his inbox, forwarded from the office of the Minister for Disability Issues. I said I had hoped it would land on the Minister of Employment's desk. So we had a chat about the problems of finding work for people with disabilities, and we will also talk in the new year about possible work opportunities for Oscar.
I wonder if I will get any more responses to my email?
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The Democrats now have a few months to find a really good Presidential candidate.
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Hard News: The Midterms, in reply to nzlemming,
Gillum is a black man from the Democrat left. Might be different next time with more people able to vote. Also as climate change starts to drown Florida.