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Interesting.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/483161/australia-day-why-young-aussies-are-shunning-their-national-holiday
I’ll just pass on my experience in Nelson, NZ of Waitangi Day attendance in Nelson going back about a decade. The Council used to hold a commemoration at our 1903 square up by the cathedral grounds. At about 10 am there would be a gathering of officials, and Maori and pakeha leaders. Noticeably NOT there, were a good number of pakeha citizens, and not a lot of Maori were going to turn up on their own; probably the attendees could be counted on 10 fingers.
Iwi realised that they would have to be the initiators to ensure that our National Day was remembered and celebrated. Now the Day is celebrated on the local Marae attendance is good. But going back some years, being welcomed in with the powhiri, I found that many of the public there were visiting from overseas. Still not a great number of local citizens for the early powhiri, but I think many turn up later on and there are activities, talks, kapa haka and stalls even visitors from the Blenheim marae etc. But people have to be galvanised off their bums to be bothered was my feeling.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483149/piha-drowning-farewell-for-two-dead-indian-nationals-calls-for-water-safety-awareness
NZ the welfare state for men? When are males going to grow up and take steps to ensure their own safety; and their parents teach them how to be prepared for life?
They get drunk and drive into bridges, sometimes intentionally, they put drugs into their bodies with great abandon, abandoning cool concern for toxicity, they drown, they die of hypothermia, they shoot people such as a female tramper cleaning her teeth at a hut while thinking she was a deer – instead of a dear person.
We need better socialisation, home training, learning by talk and role modelling, and care from our authorities about values and self-responsibility through education when young, not boot camps to ‘whip’ males and females into shape. Learning how to become a proud, capable adult with interaction with community and not just be carried on taking what one wants as required .
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/483170/immigration-not-a-solution-to-fill-skills-gaps-economist
Immigration agents and others have tried to intervene with government for changes or better outcomes for yonks. Can someone take and initiate good advice? All of us are losers because of the failure of government and civil administration to act rather than just respond to demand with high costs for entry or unchanging limitations gluing the person to one employer who becomes a blackmailer.
And will government and advisors listen to this soundly researched wisdom:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483159/tarras-airport-proposal-faces-more-opposition-as-leading-academics-pen-open-letter
But 11 of New Zealand’s leading academics – including Dame Anne Salmond and professor Shaun Hendy – have signed an open letter calling for the plan to be scrapped.
The researchers – with expertise in the fields of business, economics, climate science, sustainability, Māori and indigenous studies, tourism, environment, agriculture, and policy studies – said it ran counter to New Zealand’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions and the climate emergencies declared by councils….
“We are concerned that any organisation, let alone Christchurch International Airport Ltd which is owned 25 percent by the government and 75 percent by Christchurch City Council, would consider building a new airport in New Zealand during a climate emergency.
“This proposed airport highlights the need for more climate-focussed legislative and regulatory frameworks as a basis for stronger controls for approving major infrastructure projects such as new international airports.”
The researchers also believed the proposed airport had a volume-based tourism approach, which they said did not align with Queenstown Lakes’ and Central Otago’s destination management plans.
“The future of tourism will b less volume driven, and more focussed on quality and value through extended length of stay, high value, deep engagement and high quality local/regional visitor experiences.
Germany fires up the ovens again
https://www.rt.com/news/570471-german-mp-criticizes-scholz-tanks-ukraine/
They’ve just put in an order for Russian tanks to be delivered to Berlin again.
How important is history?