#whaikaha — Public Fediverse posts
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Neither WINZ or ACC, nor their overseeing ministries or ministers, ought to be allowed to choose the medical reviewers who assess applications for disability-related benefits. Instead they ought to be chosen by Whaikaha (Ministry of Disabled People) and Te Whatu Ora (Ministry of Health).
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Neither WINZ or ACC, nor their overseeing ministries or ministers, ought to be allowed to choose the medical reviewers who assess applications for disability-related benefits. Instead they ought to be chosen by Whaikaha (Ministry of Disabled People) and Te Whatu Ora (Ministry of Health).
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Currently working on some cartoons and infographics about the recent awfulness by the coalition government.
The message is clear. Those in charge don't believe our community is capable of looking after itself, making decisions for itself or using the resources supplied in a 'correct manner' or on goods that they approve of.
This should be their new strap line for the Ministry.
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Perhaps the cruelest and most woeful action (amongst so many) of this utterly awful gvt is the gutting of #Whaikaha. Our disability community are amongst the most vulnerable in the nation and they waited long for their own ministry that could understand and respond to their particular needs. I'm heartbroken by this #nzpol
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Perhaps the cruelest and most woeful action (amongst so many) of this utterly awful gvt is the gutting of #Whaikaha. Our disability community are amongst the most vulnerable in the nation and they waited long for their own ministry that could understand and respond to their particular needs. I'm heartbroken by this #nzpol
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I've been dwelling on the term Tangata Whaikaha. For those of you not familiar, it is a Te Reo Māori term for disabled people that translates, roughly, as "strong people". It is a beautiful and enabling term embraced by disabled people.
The effort by the government to remove this name from Whaikaha, the Ministry of Disabled People, is steeped in ignorance, racism, and a lack of respect.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350268739/governments-english-name-edict-runs-trouble-whaikaha
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I've been dwelling on the term Tangata Whaikaha. For those of you not familiar, it is a Te Reo Māori term for disabled people that translates, roughly, as "strong people". It is a beautiful and enabling term embraced by disabled people.
The effort by the government to remove this name from Whaikaha, the Ministry of Disabled People, is steeped in ignorance, racism, and a lack of respect.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350268739/governments-english-name-edict-runs-trouble-whaikaha
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CW: NZPol Whaikaha / Simmonds on watch
"Then on Tuesday morning, Willis confirmed Cabinet had asked for more oversight of decisions being made by Simmonds and Whaikaha.
“We’ve also directed, as a Cabinet, that any further decisions that the ministry makes about changing its criteria, its funding, needs to be properly consulted, properly sequences. It needs to go to Cabinet before it’s enacted,” Willis said."
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Please, sign this petition to stop NZ govt, and make them review their changes to not take the necessary individualisation for highly diverse special needs people out of 'individuslised funding'.
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Please, sign this petition to stop NZ govt, and make them review their changes to not take the necessary individualisation for highly diverse special needs people out of 'individuslised funding'.
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This is a powerful call to action.
#nzpol #whaikaha #NationalNotFitToGovern #CoalitionOfChaos
Please consider sharing this message and please show you care 🙏
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This is a powerful call to action.
#nzpol #whaikaha #NationalNotFitToGovern #CoalitionOfChaos
Please consider sharing this message and please show you care 🙏
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Spent the day in Wgtn with leaders from parent and whānau groups/orgs within the disability sector in NZ and honestly it has been sooo needed, just to have time together, in-person, to discuss key issues and connect and properly meet each other and re-establish our relationships w each other.