Posts by Angela Hart
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Cracker: Breaking the Silence, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
at a strategy review meeting perchance?
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no, you're right, by would be better here.
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Legal Beagle: Cameron Slater: computer hacker?, in reply to Alfie,
While Slater usually campaigns against name suppression for others, he made an exception this time and claimed that publication of his own name would cause him “severe hardship”.
Lovely piece on pundit re this http://pundit.co.nz/content/time-which-sees-all-things-has-found-you-out
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I wonder what the budget holds for family carers this time?
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Funded Family Care policy has been updated on the MoH website. There is some significant change. Anyone receiving FFC should read through the policy, not just the summary.
http://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/funded-family-care-operational-policy-mar16.pdf -
One reason that sugar is a widespread additive to foods is its low cost. These days it is in almost every processed food, and not because it is needed for flavour. If I were in charge (heh!) I'd tax sugar, not food or drink, but refined sugar. That ought to have the effect of reducing its attractiveness as an additive. I'd also need to regulate artificial sweeteners so that they were not needlessly used to replace the natural stuff.
The fact is humanities' sweet tooth has been embiggened by continual exposure to larger and larger doses of sugar, often unknowingly. Mainly because sugar is so cheap- my eye opener was reading Sweetness and Power by Sidney W. Mintz, who traces the history of sugar and its evolving usage.
https://www.bookdepository.com/Sweetness-and-Power/9780140092332 -
Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Thanks Rosemary, perhaps this is the long awaited attitudinal shift we need from DPA. Hopefully it is their government funding that has been cut and they can now see that dependence on government funding is unwise and dangerous.
I made some comments on their site which are awaiting moderation, I cannot see any other comments. It will be interesting to see what gets through :-) -
It's sad that someone attending a lecture isn't smart enough to appreciate the actual causation of increasingly heavy human populations.
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Who knows what lies behind the actions of this person? There isn't much anyone but him can do about any issues he has. But we can manage our own responses.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber driver, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
I'm jealous of these guys ability to get around on a beach. They are so lucky! Thanks ACC.