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Offline Wal

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Fellow Practitioner Issue 237 Dated 16 January 2015
« on: January 16, 2015, 07:18:08 AM »
Welcome back everyone. This is the first News Letter of the year and we want to ensure change happens.   Have a good read and send us your thoughts and ideas as change is for all of us not just a few.

You are not going to believe the new policy the Board has implemented. 

Linkback: https://www.plumbers.nz/fellow-practitioners-update/41/fellow-practitioner-issue-237-dated-16-january-2015/1817/

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Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 237 Dated 16 January 2015
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2015, 10:27:38 AM »
hi guys, The Dealing with Unreasonable Behaviour Policy was approved by the PGDBoard of N.Z. on 2 December 2014 and took effect on 3 December 2014.
... I think that whoever dreamt up this policy was using `Unreasonable Behaviour` and is it legal? are we now being run by a police state mentality, has the policy of `Freedom of Speech ' for all in New Zealand come to an end? does this not breach international law, cheers   

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Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 237 Dated 16 January 2015
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2015, 01:05:11 PM »
hi guys, i think the board could be in trouble if it does not retract their `freedom of expression 'policy ,AKA  Unreasonable Behaviour Policy, cheers
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The most significant legal source of the right to freedom of expression is set out in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which states that:
1.   Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference
2.   Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art or through any other media of his choice.
3.   The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:
Censorship and suppression are ‘themselves intrinsically evil, and will always tend to do more harm than good’ (Hargreaves, 2002,

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Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 237 Dated 16 January 2015
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2015, 04:22:01 PM »
Hey Robbo, no thinking for yourself now, its a thought crime.....1984, perhaps George Orwell has got a job at the Board......oh is this unreasonable of me......sorry.
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Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 237 Dated 16 January 2015
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2015, 10:30:28 PM »
I don't think the policy stops anyone expressing opinions of what ever sort - it can't do that - what it does is give the Board the right to stop listening.
Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?  Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you?  (Walt Whitman 1819-1891)  American Poet

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Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 237 Dated 16 January 2015
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2015, 09:10:54 AM »
or just formalises the "not listening".....because they never have listened

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Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 237 Dated 16 January 2015
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2015, 07:53:49 PM »
Actually that's a fair comment Badger, I agree.  Partly because until the last few years no one has ever questioned them - again because they used to be reasonable and do their job - then we saw the era where they wanted to own and run everything under Mr Routhan, and now I'm not entirely sure how I would describe the set up - but I do know it could be better - it could take industry with it - maybe there needs to be a change at the top.



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