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A blocked view

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This is the first time I’ve heard of disability used as a reason to retain a million dollar view.

The disability community  and developers have an uneasy relationship at the best of times usually around useability and function rather than location per se. It is interseting that according to this piece:

At the request of the developer, the Minister for Planning, Kristina Keneally, has declared the two proposed towers a project of state significance and it will be the Department of Planning, not North Sydney Council, that will decide if they proceed.

The developers decision may not yield the result they seek.Ms Keneally is a former Minister for Disability Services,and a good one at that. So if she hears this argument in particular it might make a difference. Perhaps.

Of course Ms Moser and Niko are not the only ones complaining about the proposed towers which will block many highly prized, and priced views. It’s interesting that once again the media feels the need to lead with the ‘disabled” person as the easiest human interest angle and that folks with disability seem quite willing to fill this role more often than not.

As someone who has also had media coverage about her in the past as the human interest story I’m not saying it is automatically a bad thing. Just that it runs the risk of becoming the fall back position and doesn’t always serve to do a lot more than catch people somewhere between the hero, victim, or joker triangle, which leaves me at least wincing and wondering about equity and dignity. Sympathy is not always useful nor sought.

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The winner is … talent and, oh, a woman – TV & Radio – Entertainment

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The winner is … talent and, oh, a woman – TV & Radio – Entertainment.

This article discussing the gender issues within the recent MasterChef Australia series is interesting. Don’t get me wrong here. I mean interesting in a good way.

Within the course of the last week of the show, as the women began to dominate in numbers and skill I was waiting for the usual gender related discussion — however minor. In recent series of other reality shows when a woman has won (after a man has won previous series), a mention of the gender of the winner has often been inevitable, however subtle and noble the intent. There was none of that, until the above from the host pointing out this very phenomena. I’m impressed, particularly if you look at the industry that Julie is now entering, which despite the female home cook trend is a male dominant industry at the professional level.

Could it be? Are we moving beyong the gender question in media just for the sake of it?

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