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Immigration New Zealand’s perfect storm
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018929732/immigration-new-zealand-s-perfect-storm
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https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2403/S00220/launch-of-the-survivor-experience-service-gives-confidence-for-people-abused-in-care.htm
Launch Of The Survivor Experience Service Gives Confidence For People Abused In Care
Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 6:30 pm
Press Release: Survivor Experience Service
The Survivor Experiences Service, a new service for people who experienced abuse in care, has officially launched on 12 March 2024.
The Service is a supportive and confidential place for people who were abused in care (1950’s – today), and their whānau, to share their experiences.It started 3 July 2023 following a recommendation from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care….
Survivors told the Royal Commission,,,that they wanted a way for their experiences to be validated and acknowledged,” says Karl McDiarmid, Executive Director of the Survivor Experiences Service.
Survivors and whānau can call 0800 456 090, email contact@survivorexperiences.govt.nz, or text 8328 to speak with a person from the Survivor Experiences Service. They will work with survivors to organise a time and place to share their experiences.
Don’t shout it too loudly @ Grey. They’ll be overwhelmed.
You’ll have heard Ihorangi Reweti-Peters on NinetoNoon this morning no doubt. What you didn’t hear was that Ihorangi has 3 elder siblings who’ve gone through pretty much the same thing. One after the other, regular as clockwork. CYFS/OT ‘interventions’ included
At least they might be able to make some impact. They’ll need to ensure the resources they have fit the need they’re capable of addressing. More power to them
Thanks OwT I haven’t heard and will listen. I have trouble keeping up with the fast moving present going-forward, dragging basic necessities from the past along; as well as confronting vicissitudes – seeing if they are something to eat or what etc. (Hopefully could be a sort of venison sausage roll or vegetarian vindaloo perhaps?)
On Punch magazine and its satirical and humourous offerings; popularity and value, and effectiveness in raising and airing all sorts, unpopular as well.
Punch was a British weekly magazine of humor and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. At the pinnacle of its popularity, Punch was seen as the exemplar in its field. It featured a number of famous British artists, particularly cartoonists and writers. It was resurrected in 1996 by Mohammed Al Fayed, who believed it to be a British institution, although it ceased publication again in 2002.
Although Punch was always intended to be humorous, its influence on British society was indeed significant. Providing incisive commentary on social and political affairs, the magazine presented the best and worst of British society to itself and to the world. Using the vehicle of humor allowed potentially unpopular ideas to be presented, a valuable aspect of a society in which freedom of speech is valued, and thus was a valuable component of the system of checks and balances that allows human society to maintain and develop in a healthy fashion. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Punch_(magazine)
(A long sentence above, which presents a thought cogently, and heretofore and so on a chocolate fish may be claimed by the party of the first part from the part left over from last night’s party, if any.)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/496758/wellington-town-hall-set-to-get-multi-million-dollar-recording-facility
This is a beautiful venue – if it isn’t on the Wellington flood plain and it could be a one-of in NZ – no funds for another in Auckland or elsewhere – then why couldn’t it get funding from the country. Let’s not get divided into pieces of pie for the local rich kids and the international funds. Let’s have a plan for All NZ/AO and some Councils will not be able to get the right to borrow through the hilt for sports and entertainment venues etc on spurious local business and employment bases. Small but beautiful (Schumacher) should be our aim, and watch for slippage from hills and from inadequately costed quotations.
Everyone remembers the criticism before the support. Apart from sibs. I never got on much from sib talk. Trez amusing how it hasn’t worked for me on the internet. None of you have brothers I assume. You twitt the bloke you’re arguing against.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/374950/parliament-has-some-fresh-faces-but-the-stats-tell-a-different-story
30 October 2017 Tom Kitchin
…Laura O’Connell Rapira, co-founder of Rock Enrol, an organisation dedicated to informing youth about the political process, believes young MPs could help youth engage in politics.
She says Chlöe Swarbrick is a great example.
O’Connell Rapira also reckons citizenship education – not just civic education – in schools is essential. That means she thinks students need to know more than just how government works; they need to know what being a citizen means.
She says allowing students to vote in school elections might be part of the solution.
“High schools can’t vote for prefects, they leave school and don’t know of the larger systems,” she says…
This woman’s idea about how to get young people involved seems a good one.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/511504/law-forcing-chief-ombudsman-peter-boshier-to-retire-appears-discriminatory?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Current oldest member of Parliament: Winston Peters First elected 25 November 1978, aged 78 at the 2023 election
https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/mps-and-parliaments-1854-onwards/members-of-parliament-longest-shortest-oldest-youngest/
What about Winston going too. I think this should apply to MPs – make sure there aren’t monkey glands implants or something. Remember Mugabe?
We really have to get our country working effectively. All the politic-optics are about is less tax and stamping on any green shoot of initiative that is about sensible operation. It’s all scrum and huddle and pass the NZ goodies to each other in an underhand way while all we see are bland faces that look as intelligent as bottoms in a rugby scrum
Jan 2024
https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/334690-red-sea-situation-highligts-need-for-nz-shipping.html
He says the previous several years saw serious shipping disruption due to the
pandemic, the Ukraine conflict, and natural disasters such as the flooding in New Zealand regions in 2023.
Craig says global shipping lines are now changing schedules to avoid the Suez Canal and Red Sea region, creating serious delays and cost hikes.
“New Zealand needs to protect our domestic supply chain through boosting coastal shipping capability with New Zealand flagged ships and New Zealand crews.”