Disability issues

  • State your piece – Inquiry into abuse in care

    A Different Light – 22 September Our very own Cameron Leslie was deservedly front and centre in the Northern Advocate again this week. Front page! The article was about him…

  • Grey Matter

    A Different Light – 10 August – Grey Matter Don’t you hate when things won’t work for no apparent reason or when a straight forward plan fails miserably? Like a…

  • Free Bird

    A Different Light – 13 July 2019 – Free Bird When I was eighteen I could not wait to leave home. I was off to Auckland University with my friend…

  • Your Best Shot

    A Different Light – 15 June I went for my flu jab yesterday. I had been procrastinating. The feeble logic that flu vaccines give you the flu was vaguely in…

  • Being there

    A Different Light – 18 May 2019 There is much anticipation around Finance Minister Robertson’s first budget. There are stakeholders lined up putting pressure on the government to get their…

  • The Keyboard to education

    link:  A Different Light – 20 April 2019   My typing is slow. Glacial, in fact. I use one finger and occasionally a thumb. Luckily, I have a PA who does…

  • Love is a four-legged word

    A Different Light – 9 March 2019 Heck! That’s pretty impressive, I think as I eye our two dogs. They are tiny. They are hairy. They bark a lot. Are…

  • 9 February 2019

    A Different Light – A Spoon Full of Sugar I got feedback on social media on my last column to the effect “actually please can you start writing about Disabilities…

  • Hard to be bad when you’re known

    A different Light –  26 January 2019 A Different Light – 26 January 2019 As I was careering down Bank Street the other day on my mobility scooter, wearing a…

  • 22 December 2018

    “Virtual medal” A different Light 22 December 2018 I always seem to get off lightly when it comes to Christmas shopping, thank god. My wife does most of the heavy lifting,…

  • Roll Playing

    A different Light – 15 September 2018 ‘A lot of work to be done on wheelchair accessibility – Carmel Sepuloni’, hardly a bowel shattering revelation, but believe it or not,…

  • 1 September 2018

    Making it Work Sitting in the Invercargill airport, I kept on wondering why people were giving me stranger looks than normal. Oh then I remembered it might be the bloody…

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