Thursday, November 21, 2024

A Twist of Kate: The Castaway

April 27, 2011 by  
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“From the earliest days of mental health legislation in New Zealand, around 1880, there has been a view that there are occasions when people with mental disorder (however that might be defined) would need treatment without their consent. However, the ‘proper’ extent of the use of detention and compulsory treatment remains controversial.”

Model Citizen: A Piece of Kate

April 24, 2011 by  
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Katherine Raue is a fellow blogwriter, she is a friend. Currently, she is in my opinion being ‘improperly detained’ in Rangipapa, an inpatient service that caters mainly for the needs of women in treatment programmes aimed at rehabilitation.

Systems that take the Kate

April 23, 2011 by  
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Katherine Raue is a fellow blogwriter, her website Transparency in New Zealand (TiNZ) is a pandora’s box of “serious allegations coupled with indisputable evidence of serious and systemic incompetence and

Heke Women

December 16, 2010 by  
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A Heke woman has a way about how she stands inside herself, I know this. Among our immediate own, it’s upright without lording it over one another. It’s strong without being

Matua: Tippy Haeres of a Principal Carver

November 15, 2010 by  
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When they buried our friend Haami Moeke Snr QSM, it was entirely fitting that he should be taken to his final resting place in his aging diesel van. We friends, Juliet and I stood next to each other watching as the pallbearers carried him between a garland of fierce young warriors performing the haka.

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