walking . is . overrated

Taken from stuff.co.nz:
A centre that cares for severely disabled people faces having to turn people away next year because the Government is refusing to provide extra funding. The Chris Ruth Centre offers long-term, one-on-one care and specialist services for people in Christchurch with very high special needs who are too old to stay in the […]

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Check out the picture on the left. This is what you get when you type “invalid” into Google. Honestly, I like to put the word “invalid” along with “wheelchair-bound” in the ‘Words That Really Piss Me Off’ bucket. Namely because they are such archaic vernacular, not to mention their grossly offensive connotations, and being so […]

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Gosh, this is such a tough one. I know I’ve harped on about this before, but reading this article in the Herald today made me think about it all over again, and I’m interested in your thoughts too. The gist of it is this: that a new law being introduced next week will make it […]

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I for one certainly didn’t, and I was shocked/amazed/inspired (yes, all three at once) to discover that one of the world’s most prominent cities, and a previous host of the Olympics and Paralympics, has a man at the helm who is in fact disabled! His name is Sam Sullivan, and he was elected the Mayor […]

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Brought to my attention by Barbz over in our forums, it was quite startling to discover a law change coming into effect later this year which may force some sheltered workshops to close. The Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act, which allowed employers to create tailored working conditions for disabled people, will be repealed in December, […]

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Figures released today by Statistics New Zealand and reported by nzcity.co.nz show that over 600,000, or around 14% of New Zealanders have some sort of disability. These figures include specifics such as:

Over 166,000 New Zealand adults have a disability which has been caused by an accident or injury
10% of children are considered disabled
Two-thirds of those […]

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I know I’m running on a bit of an Australian angle today, but I gotta admit, they’re leading the way…
In Sydney over the weekend, a new political party - “The Carers Alliance Party” - was established by parents of children with a disability. They’re aiming to increase awareness within government about the struggles that carers, […]

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