Posts by Christopher Dempsey
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Hard News: About the King's Arms (updated), in reply to Matthew Poole,
Once you have SHA, you then need to apply for Qualifying Development Consent for the actual buildings. You have limited time to do this under legislation, compared to 5 years under RMA. The intent in the SHA act is to build, and build sooner, not later.
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Put simply, the Government hates Chch for some reason. Hates it intensely.
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Polity: Protesting too much: responses…, in reply to nzlemming,
Wasn't. Just seriously annoyed that those that enjoyed free tertiary education (Little and Co) think it's ok to offer free tertiary education to cohorts younger than me, *without* addressing the fact that my cohort had to pay for ours, severely constraining our ability to buy homes or get established.
Any policy that mentions free tertiary education MUST address the intergenerational inequities that have occurred.
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Not happy Jan. Having just finished paying off student loans I fully expect a refund. The generation ahead of me (Joyce et al, including my older siblings) all got free tertiary education. I had to pay. And there's no way in hell I'll allow the generation following me free tertiary education. Why should MY generation be shafted?
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Hard News: A Stand for Quaxing, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Once people learn the basics, then variations can be engaged on, as you indicate.
I should qualify that I do most of my engagement in downtown areas.
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Hard News: A Stand for Quaxing, in reply to Su Yin Khoo,
Panniers?
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Hard News: A Stand for Quaxing, in reply to James Littlewood*,
Sorry to learn of your crash at St Lukes.
FWIW, when I come across people walking on the right as I ride on the left, I often stop and either indicate for them to walk on the left, or tell them to walk on the left.
Usually it's o'seas students who are doing this - they are puzzled, but I indicate the traffic nearby and ask which side of the road do they drive on? Left, so we walk/ride/lane swim/walk up & downstairs/pass through doors etc on the left.
Much safer to educate - I don't want to crash into someone because I had nowhere else to go.
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Great post thank you.
As a member of Ngati Deaf you can imagine that I'm well pleased at the emphasis on captioning. But I agree with you when you suggest a focus instead on universal design.
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Access: Respect, please, in reply to Robyn Carter,
I don't know how those in a wheelchair can maintain good humour knowing theirs is permanent.
I don't know either but whatever, we (those of us who are differently abled) *have* to maintain it, otherwise it just does our head in. Having a set of different abilities is one thing, having the mental health to go along with that is another thing altogether.
My brother is in a wheelchair, and has pretty awesome mental health. I wear HA's and my mental health isn't as crash hot! Still, wearing HA's is both a blessing and a curse, but something I've learnt to live tolerably with.
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If I could swap my deafness for hearing, I don't think I would - the world is FAR too noisy! But while I sigh about people not 'getting' different abilities, I suspect that for some, they do get it, because they have good empathy skills, and good cognitive skills, that enables them to imagine (they'd be good novelists) how it would be to have a different ability (be blind, be deaf, be crippled etc).
Personally, those ear muffs should have been on for a week. Then I'll really know if you understand what it feels like to have my deafness!