Some time ago, I wondered whether Beijing was ready to host the 2008 Paralympics. I think this picture says it all, don’t you?

This is so, so important. Please read this post. I’m sure many of you have a passionate stance on the whole ACC vs. MOH funding conundrum, and why those who can prove “medical misadventure” was the cause of their disability (or, ironically, those who got drunk, crashed their car, and are now wheelchair users) are entitled to so much more funding than those who are simply disabled by illness or birth condition. Why is the gap so vast when the

Ah yes, the venue with the infamous heavy doors, as illustrated with a bizarre 3-men-in-a-disabled-bathroom incident on TV One’s CloseUp programme in October last year, is back making headlines. Or at least, my headlines. A friend and I visited the cinemas, located adjacent to Auckland’s Aotea Square, last night to see the movie The Bucket List. I went and bought the tickets, two frozen cokes (a vital necessity!), and hurried toward the lift, as we were already 5 minutes late.

“Where’s the money, bitch” is all a Paraparaumu woman heard from two teenagers who confronted her on Saturday, and who then damaged her brand new power chair. She had a poster on the back of her chair, advertising for Guide Dog Service volunteers, which she thinks may have led the attackers to believe she was collecting funds. Her brand new, $60,000 wheelchair was shoved around, and then the boys ripped the tilt mechanism off. “They had been drinking – I

I’m all for giving credit where it’s due, and as such I credit this ‘borrowed’ review entirely to AttitudeTV’s Curtis Palmer. Curtis says that he was down in Wellington over New Years, and stumbled across a “wee gem” of an accessible hotel, and gives it a solid rating. The Comfort Hotel in Cuba St was primo! It’s a heritage building that used to be the old Trekkers Backpackers. Newly renovated, its classy. We paid $89 a night, the room was

Well gosh, try as I might to entertain you all with interesting stories, or inform you all with, well, informative ones, nothing much appears to be happening in the world of disability! So, please. If you’ve seen or heard anything recently which you think might interest the rest of the walkingisoverrated family, then let us know!

Should we paint mobility parks blue? Apparently it deters those who shouldn’t be parking there… What do you think? Research undertaken by the disability support service found that 55 per cent of people using mobility parking spaces with the existing yellow markings were doing so illegally. After being painted blue with yellow markings, the misuse dropped to 51 per cent after three months and 42 per cent after six months, according to Research NZ, which monitored the parks. During the

It’s funny you know, it might sound naive but I often forget that people end up becoming wheelchair users for reasons far more horrific than your average disability, or your usual car accidents. Not to make light of such situations, but it must be said that being the victim of a cluster bomb is far from a pleasant scenario. But that is, unfortunately, what happened to young Afghani refugee Soraj Habib, when he picked up what he thought was a

Having had a very pleasant, and surprisingly successful journey on the Interislander ferry myself early last year, I was intrigued as to what the folks over at NZ On Wheels had to say about it all. Thankfully, our individual trips seem to have at least one thing in common – the overriding enjoyment factor! It really is a stunning voyage, and a must for anyone travelling New Zealand’s stunning coastline. The picture on the left is taken from NZ On

To be honest, I’m not much of a running fan and I don’t really know how many of you are either, but I am a fan of “post-event food and beverage”, and as such the following notice appealed to me! Check the skinny below, but in a nutshell, the lovely people over at the Halberg Trust have teamed up with the sponsorship might of Westpac Bank to provide free registration to disabled people and their friends/family in this year’s Auckland