Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to SteveH,
I really wonder what Collins has that makes Key repeatedly back her versus the way he let Maurice Williamson fall on his sword.
Regular botox treatments.
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When time permits I rather enjoy wandering around the blogosphere, checking out the egos.
Always an added bonus is when voting is allowed on the merit or not of the commentors comments.
An even bigger bonus is observing how the blogger handles those commentors that take an obverse veiw.
Like here: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2014/08/the_hager_book-2.html
See how commentor "AG" is dealt to.
Who is that masked man?????
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Speaker: Why you should vote, in reply to Angela Hart,
Thank you Angela for forcing Peter and I to watch this video clip... again.
No two ways about it, Catherine Delahunty certainly got it...and most certainly spoke with passion, commitment and guts.
So what the hell happened between then and now?
What backroom discussions and dark deals?
What 'trade offs'?
We will never know.
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And, here’s Labour’s,
https://www.labour.org.nz/sites/default/files/issues/disability_issues_policy_0.pdf
Does NOT speak specifically about the Public Health and Disability Act amendment, but refers to the ” family caregivers legislation which barred access to Human Rights redress
and will ensure all family caregivers can provide and be paid for assessed care for adult disabled family members”.Actually Labour….not good enough for me.
You are very well aware of what that piece of legislation is called…
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Well….here is the Greens policy statement for Disability.
https://www.greens.org.nz/sites/default/files/policy-pdfs/Disability-20140813-4-FINAL_0.pdf
NO mention of addressing the PHDAct travesty…and NO mention of ensuring that those disabled people who are being cared for by contracted providers can be confident of receiving safe quality care.
Not this:
or this
or this: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/233330/inquiries-begin-into-care-centre-death
I guess this ;
was just so much piss and wind.
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Speaker: Why you should vote, in reply to ,
See anything even acknowledging that alcohol consumption has a correlation with domestic violence.
Funny, isn't it, that alchohol features so prominantly in so many areas of concern yet ALL political parties are reluctant to seriously curb it's use and availability.
Is it because most Kiwis drink....in fact not drinking in social situations is considered abnormal....and no-one wants to cast the first stone?
Or are the $$$ coming from the booze barons too good to pass up?
Major irony in the disability arena....a "show off" day at one of the spinal units was actually sponsered by the brewery accross the road.
I nearly pissed meself laughing.
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Okay.....
Here's me the optimist.....
Labour is drip feeding its policies, and is saving an announcement about the PHDAct(2) till last......
Yeah, right.
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Speaker: Why you should vote, in reply to ,
http://campaign.labour.org.nz/endingviolence
"Labour will:
provide leadership to eliminate violence against women and children from the Prime Minister down with the lead agency being the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC),
Adopt a collaborative, resourced, long-term New Zealand Action Plan to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Children in consultation with other parties and the sector,
Provide $60 million over four years for family and sexual violence to support front line services, primary prevention, and education. This includes increased support for transitional housing,
Reform the justice system to provide real justice to survivors while protecting the right to be presumed innocent. This includes providing specialist training,
Review prosecution guidelines to ensure Police appropriately and consistently arrest and charge offenders, and review the operation of Protection Orders."Sounds good.....
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Speaker: Why you should vote, in reply to Sacha,
Do party policy statements mention specific laws in other areas?
http://campaign.labour.org.nz/
"Repeal section 38 of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act,
"increase the minimum wage by $2 an hour in our first year, to $15 an hour in our first hundred days in government, and increased again to $16.25 an hour in early 2015"
"repeal National's recent TICS and GCSB legislation to protect New Zealanders from being subject to mass surveillance when they're going about their lawful business,,",
"Scrap National Standards and return schools’ focus back to teaching the full breadth of New Zealand’s internationally acclaimed curriculum,'
"We will repeal charter school legislation and no more charter schools will be created under Labour,"
Labour has no section for Disability.