Posts by Angela Hart
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Great post Dave, you've covered it thoroughly and I find I agree totally. The only question I have is why has 1080 been so widely banned overseas, when it suits our needs here so well? Is it down to the desire to sell more expensive, newer pesticides?
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The timing is stunning. The media focus has shifted. An extremely effective strategic spin machine is doing its job superbly.
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Access: Family Carers Case – Five Years On, in reply to Sacha,
and that's something because loss of money forces businesses to take notice. However.. this was manslaughter at the very least, and no-one has been charged with Nathan's death.
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OnPoint: Leviathan, in reply to Paul Campbell,
We have lies on lies. Dissembling. Unethical and probably illegal behaviour in spite of the laws having been widened. It seems that in our "democracy" the electorate acshually has no rights at all once voting is over.
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This article isn't very clear but it looks very much as if the case is about Carer Support, the Ministry of Health's subsidy aimed at friends and family of children with disabilities who sometimes provide a break for the main caregiver(s).
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/267612/home-care-workers-win-right-to-minimum-wage
If that is the case, it will be interesting to see what follows. Carer support is virtually unusable within the rules for people with high and complex needs and for adults. Although that has been known for years the problem hasn't been addressed for fiscal reasons, leaving families to struggle on.
Carer support is offered as a subsidy rather than a wage, which has carefully avoided the issues associated with employment, but also made it virtually impossible to use Carer Support with anyone other than family or friend, prepared to take a token payment. It boils down to family caregivers not being able to get a break unless they have strong networks.
Sorry, Hilary, this isn't directly related to your post.
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Action Station is running a campaign to save these trees. The Auckland Transport Board meets tomorrow, if you can get to the meeting it is one of the most effective ways to demonstrate the level of public interest and concern on this issue.
Event: Auckland Transport Board meeting
When: Friday at 1:00pm
Where: Kauri Room, Level 11, HSBC, 1 Queen Street, Auckland
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Martin Sullivan,
Indeed some of us sat outside the studios with signs rejecting this demeaning, begging bowl approach to disability support.
Good for you Martin.
consultation over whether DSS should go to the Ministry of Health or Department of Social Welfare. The third option was that a Ministry of Disability be established under the control of disabled people to deal with things disability.
If only. The Ministry of Health has been an almost unmitigated disaster.
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The reality distortion is shameless and deplorable but enormously effective. Invitations to be seen or heard on media where the fantasies might be challenged are simply declined. It is all too easy to mislead most of the people most of the time.
What gets me is how they live with themselves. Perhaps the spin Doctors have a conscience killing pill. -
Here's yet another erosion of services to people who use wheelchairs. While there's nothing wrong with increasing choice, there's a great deal wrong with reducing a 24/7 service which accepts wheelchair users to a 7am to 7pm one which doesn't necessarily ( and over time will not except at greater cost, in order to remain in business).
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand's…, in reply to Sacha,
This is a follow up story to the family that was going to be evicted from their rental accommodation and had nowhere to go. At the last minute a housing New Zealand home was released from the sales programme but it needs a lot of work before the family can easily live there. That work will take months, and in the meantime there is considerable extra stress and strain as they make do
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/65485571/long-wait-for-modifications-forces-boy-to-shower-at-stadium