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Sunday 25 September 2022 08:52:38 GMT
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Jenn 🇦🇺 :
Very interesting, my great grandmother was wheelchair bound due to rheumatoid arthritis she came out as a 10 pound Pom, I didn’t even think about
2022-09-25 12:15:07
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Tiz 🦓 :
Me and my fiancé want to move to Australia. I have a physical disability and I’m autistic, he is technically able bodied but restrictions due to an
2022-09-26 20:14:23
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Cy Cyborg 🦘🏳️⚧️ :
can confirm it still happens. my partner had to do a bunch of tests to prove they didn't have any disabilities before they could get their permanent(1
2022-09-25 11:14:55
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dragonstar2264 :
in the early 20th century there wasnt a lot of tax payers money going to welfare. the charities were doing a lot of it. we have to remember not to
2022-09-25 11:57:05
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Jeremy :
I didn't know NZ had those laws as well. Australia regularly falls back on some of those old laws to bypass more modern tolerant ones 😖
2022-09-25 21:38:09
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Homebird08 🇳🇿🇬🇧 :
Thanks so much for the answer. New Zealand is still very strict on immigration of people with ‘costly’ disabilities but I didn’t know the history 😪
2022-09-26 03:34:53
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Zoe Kean :
And it’s still kind of like that- just less blatant
2022-09-26 07:17:00
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Stardust 💫 :
My grew up deaf in NZ, in the 1950s- 60s. Ignorance prevailed a long time after then 😔
2022-09-25 11:43:57
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Melanie Sutton 🇳🇿 :
holidays to Hawaii ....I mean 'Te Puke' *cough* cluxon *cough*
2022-09-26 03:39:56
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quilkey :
America had similar restrictions around the same time
2022-09-25 16:12:24
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TikkyMcTokerson :
They certainly had a way with words didn’t they 😳
2022-10-14 05:50:03
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funkyboganista :
my grandmother retired to Tewantin. she wasn't allowed to live here as a child, because her mum was a Greek migrant who settled in NZ
2022-10-18 03:38:36
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Larissa Michelle :
The NZ company tried to keep out the Irish & Australians aswell. a lot less ppl in NZ have Irish decent.
2022-09-26 23:28:17
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Catherine :
😥😥😨
2022-09-25 12:17:23
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kim :
mmm, the immigration obstacles for HIV+ people are particularly galling.
2022-09-26 03:44:51
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The Ausmerican Mom :
I can agree it still happens today. I befriended an American family with a special needs son in his 20s. The dad was a tech exec who came here…
2022-09-26 22:18:56
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Ali :
In NZ you’re still not allowed to immigrate if you’re autistic. As someone who is (undiagnosed) autistic and moved there at age 3 that’s ridiculous
2022-09-26 20:17:32
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