Posts by Hilary Stace
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Dirty Politics just won't go away. When a brave waitress outed the PM's strange harassment of her the dirty politics gang rallied to blame the victim
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Angela Hart,
That is one of the unintended consequences of the IDCC&R Act. Rather than a more appropriate placement than jail for disabled people, many people are now being locked up indefinitely. There are several cases around NZ. Good to hear that Justice Action is on to it.
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Frances Joychild has long been a friend of disabled people. She led the family cares' case and is now heading the IHC's education complaint.
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This piece by Frances Joychild QC was posted on the Access blog. But it is a also a commentary on neoliberalism. http://eveningreport.nz/2015/03/24/frances-joychild-qc-on-the-fading-star-of-the-rule-of-law/
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Rosemarie Garland-Thompson was briefly in NZ last week. She's a professor of English and a disability activist currently at Emory University in Atlanta. She was interviewed by Bryan Crump on Radio NZ Nights and talked about the importance of human diversity http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/201751236/allowing-disability-to-be
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By the way I wrote a serious little summary of NZ disability policy here
http://briefingpapers.co.nz/2015/02/disability-policy-in-new-zealand/I was asked to write it as a result of this Access blog, so nice to know people read it.
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Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Thank you for that. I remember that when a man from the ministry came and told our consumer group about Socrates many of us who were parents of disabled children assumed it was for recording information about difficult parents. Perhaps it would have some secret coding to say 'watch out, difficult demanding parent, avoid'.
Why would we be so suspicious?
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I'm going to keep on promoting the lowering of the voting age to 12 or even 10. I would also have been a women's suffrage advocate in the decades before 1993 had I been around then. What seems unthinkable historically often becomes the norm.
Just imagine how much more we would put children at the centre of policy if they had a vote. For a start, we would have stopped legally beating them much earlier than we did. -
Access: Some aspects of New Zealand’s…, in reply to Angela Hart,
I would be very interested in seeing this. Probably just some information from their SOCRATES database so it will be people eligible for NASC rather than those who didn't bother trying (such as those with autism until last year), but still valuable. I remember when SOCRATES was established at huge expense several years ago. It was sold to the sector as something to provide incredibly useful information for the public, and government departments. I expected regular updates of who where why when was accessing support from the Ministry's Disability Support Services. Unfortunately, it has all been top secret since.
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The age of criminal responsibility in NZ is 10 years old. 10 and 11 year olds can be charged with murder or manslaughter, but the idea of letting them participate in the democratic system is not even considered. Says something about our attitude to children and young people.