"I'm not scared to die." How often do you hear that? I'm being honest. I'm not scared to die. I don't WANT to die. But I'm open to the invevitability. Now, tomorrow or in 40 years' time (god for-f**n-bid). I'm ready. My bucketlist is a black hole. My relationships are nurturing. ...

Excuse our hyperbole. After two quiet years of uncertainty with COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021, Diversity New Zealand is pleased that it now has ongoing contracts with: Ministry of Social Development Establishment Unit for the new disability ministry Co-leadership of Future Operational Model  (50...

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa In 2010, when Minnie asked Lesley and me to work with her to develop a year-long leadership programme for people with access needs, I didn’t know how. But I said yes anyway. Lesley had had the experience of developing and running Leadership New...

To say it's been quite a year is an obvious understatement. Hellish. Chaotic. Scary. Overwhelming. Uncertain. Wild. They are probably better adjectives to use. Interesting. Different. Curious. Paradoxical. Unprecedented. Perspective-changing. These are less dystopic descriptors. Take a mix...

Diversity New Zealand's Managing Director, Philip Patston, looks at arguments about NZ's End-of-Life Choice Act and uncovers issues not usually discussed. As the debate about the EOLC Act continues, one thing that has become patently obvious to me is that the arguments against are mainly...

Image: AFP/Getty Images We've all heard them – the eye-rolling rhetoric of stale, pale, male outrage against Greta Thunberg's impassioned plea to the UN Climate Action Summit, where she took no prisoners, saying, "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words...How dare you."...