Malcolm Evans – War criminal
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Issue 1 – Labour/Green vs National over housing – can we solve the housing crisis?
Issue 2: The Chilcott report highlights the madness of the Iraq war misadventure in the same week we extend our Afghan force deployment until past 2018
Issue 3: 30 years of homosexual law reform – where to now?
In my own area of the Otara subdivision, only 29 per cent of eligible voters returned ballot papers – well below the greater Auckland average. And the data speaks for itself: older, wealthier, housed and white voters had a much higher rate of ballot return. That’s what the data tells us so our challenge is to encourage a better ballot return from younger, poorer, transient and brown voters
There has been a lot of discussion lately here in Ōtepoti about something called “cultural appropriation”. It first came to my attention when a well-meaning friend starting objecting to our plan to have a “Gypsy Party” as part of a local festival, with Eastern European and Arabic influenced music, a performance by our local belly dancer troupe, and decoration to fit the theme.
We are delighted to have been invited by Slow Food Auckland to prepare and serve a meal celebrating the flavours of the South Pacific. Come along on Thursday 28 July for a delicious four course seafood feast and the inspiring story of the “rebirth” of a beautiful cuisine as told by Tracy Berno. Vegetarians and vegans are also welcome and will be cared and catered for.
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