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From 63 to 30: What the Government Isn’t Telling Disabled New Zealanders
Update (20 August 2026): Since publishing this piece, the Cabinet paper Approval of the New Zealand Disability Strategy 2026–30 has come to light, and it updates the picture in a way worth flagging directly.
A Step Backwards: Why Scrapping “Good Employer” Requirements Will Cost the Public Service Its Best Disabled Talent
For more than a decade, New Zealand’s public service has worked to build a reputation as one of the few genuinely safe places for disabled people to build a career.
When the Emergency Comes, Who Knows You’ll Need Power for Your Ventilator?
What a routine Official Information Act request reveals about the gap at the centre of New Zealand’s emergency welfare system
The Ministry That Doesn’t Know: What an OIA Reveals About Accessible Housing in New Zealand
For years, disabled people in New Zealand have been told that accessible housing is a priority.
Total Mobility: What the Advocacy Won, and What Remains Unknown
The Government’s 7 August 2026 announcement on the Total Mobility scheme is a moment worth marking— both for what it confirms and for what it deliberately leaves unresolved.
Eighteen Years. That’s the Gap CO 50 Was Written to Close — and the Ministry’s Answer Is a Locked Filing Cabinet
Part of the Concluding Observations Series
Paul Henry is out of his depth on school discipline — the real story is the government’s failure to properly fund Learning Support
ACT’s newest candidate has decided that the best way to lift education standards is to give teachers the power to physically remove children from classrooms, and to insult the children concerned while announcing it.
Empowering Disability Representation in Local Government
Why the Local Government Act 2002 needs a statutory duty to give disabled people real weight in council decisions — what the Audit Offices 2026 review confirms about the cost of leaving this to chance
The true State of Accessible Housing in Wellington
On 25 May 2026 I lodged a request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 with Wellington City Council, seeking records relating to the accessibility of the housing stock managed by Te Toi Mahana, the Community Housing Provider established by the Council in 2023 to manage its former City Housing portfolio.