March is Hearing Awareness Month! Did you know: over 880,000 Kiwis are Deaf or hard of hearing, over 300,000 working Kiwis (11% of all employees!) have measurable hearing loss, and about 20% of NZ Year 9 students have measurable hearing loss...

Sunday 14 November is World Diabetes Day, and this year marks 100 years since the discovery of insulin in 1921...

New Zealand has had a national Disability Strategy since 2001 and was instrumental in negotiating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Disabled in 2006, yet even today disabled people can be denied service or accommodation because they use a service animal...

Since 2015 I've run this site on WordPress.com as an opportunity to blog my ideas and interests, and to showcase my writing. The time has come to shift from WordPress to Drupal, and here's why...

This week is NZSL Week (21 to 27 Sept 2020) which coincides with the International Day of Sign Languages on 23 September...

What's inducing such violent tantrums and angry protests against covid-related public safety measures? The world has become less accessible for everyone...

You may think “I’ve worked in offices for years, and accessibility in the workplace has never really come up as a serious issue. What’s the problem?” THAT’s the problem...

In 1987 the New Zealand Government established New Zealand as a nuclear free nation. I argue it's time to declare New Zealand free of civilian semi-automatic firearms...

Personal pronouns are complicated in Te Reo Māori (the indigenous language of Aotearoa/New Zealand). For example, the English word "us" can translate into Te Reo in at least three ways...

I created a video for Changing Places New Zealand, which campaigns for truly accessible public toilets...