28
To Have an Ordinary Life – Background Papers to Inform the National Advisory Committee on Health and
Disability, 2004.
29
Ministry of Health v Atkinson [2012] NZCA 184; [2012] 3 NZLR 456.
30
Spencer v Attorney General constituted the first time such orders had been issued under the Human Rights Act in
respect of a Government policy. In light of the Spencer decision, further claims have been filed in the Human Rights
Review Tribunal by family carers seeking compensation for loss incurred as a result of the pre-FFC non-payment
policy.
31
Chamberlain v Minister of Health [2018] NZCA 8, para 90.
32
Petition 2011/122 of Rachel Noble for Disabled Person’s Assembly and 1,491 Others.
33
Report of Health Committee on Petition 2011/122 of Rachel Noble for Disabled Person’s Assembly and 1,491
Others, 7 July 2016, https://www.parliament.nz/resource/enNZ/51DBSCH_SCR69572_1/d4582dd2a68811a9c6a049d170fa7ed63ab4531f.
34
Ibid. p 8.
35
Ibid. p 9.
36
Inquiry into Mental Health and Addication – Draft Terms of Reference,
https://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/Files/Government-Inquiry-into-Mental-Health-andAddiction/$file/Inquiry-into-Mental-Health-and-Addiction-Terms-of-Reference.pdf .
37
People’s Mental Health Report (2017).
38
Ibid. p 19
39
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/88374973/Gender-reassignment-decades-long-wait-list-horrendous.
40
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, (2013), General Comment No. 15 on the rights of the child to the
highest attainable standard of health, CRC/C/GC/15.
41
Climate Change and Health: Health Professionals Joint Call for Action, October 2015,
http://www.orataiao.org.nz/joint_nz_health_professional_s_call_for_action_on_climate_change_and_health.
42
Ibid.
43
Ibid.
44
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding Observations: New Zealand, CRC/C/NZL/CO/5, 21 October
2016, para 34.
45
Ibid. para 34(a)-(b).
46
NZ Government Report para 55.
47
http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/snapshots-of-nz/nz-social-indicators/Home/Education/18-year-oldswith-higher-qualif.aspx.
48
http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/indicators/main/student-engagement-participation/Standdowns-suspensions-exclusions-expulsions.
49
ibid
50
http://www.occ.org.nz/assets/Uploads/OCC-STA-Education-Matters-to-Me-Key-Insights-24Jan2018.pdf
51
http://103.14.3.1/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018632155/Māori-student-under-achievementchronic
52
Report of David McGee Ombudsman on complaints arising out of bullying at Hutt Valley High School in
December 2007
(2011)
http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/system/paperclip/document_files/document_files/505/original/bullying_r
eport.pdf?1355787360.
53
Report from an Ombudsman, Complaints Arising out of Bullying at Hutt Valley High School in December
2007, Report of the Education and Science Committee, NZ House of Representatives, p. 3. See:
https://www.pinkshirtday.org.nz/assets/Resources/Full-report-text.pdf.
54
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Concluding observations on the initial report of New
Zealand, 3 October 2014, CRPD/C/NZL/CO/1, para 50.
55
Making Rights Real Whakatuturu nga tika hauatanga: Report of the Independent Monitoring Mechanism of the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, June 2014, p 79.
56
https://www.parliament.nz/resource/enNZ/51DBSCH_SCR71769_1/cd88907f3c87d07b8b1db046417ed1e43fcd3e85, pp 21-13.
57
Judge Andrew Becroft, From little things, big things grow – emerging youth justice themes in the South
37