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Prudence Walker has been appointed as the new Te Kaihautū Tika Hauātanga Disability Rights Commissioner

Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission warmly welcomes the announcement of Prudence Walker as the new Kaihautū Tika Hauātanga Disability Rights Commissioner. Appointed by Right Honourable Dame Helen Winkelmann, the Administrator of the Government, ...

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A Dunedin city councillor - who once told a candidate with cerebral palsy that he was not up to the job - has been removed as chairperson of the council's Disability Issues Advisory Group.

Disabled people have told MPs the proposed law should set up standards backed with real enforcement, or be scrapped.

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The big news this week was Jacinda Ardern describing David Seymour in an unparliamentary phrase on an open mike in Parliament.  But the matter was resolved in a way that can only happen in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Person with disability takes lead