To Speak, Or Not To Speak? – That Is The Question.
WAITANGI DAY is still more than half a year away: still plenty of time for Ngāpuhi to put things “right”.
Chris Trotter
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Hoping For Divine Intervention.
ROD CARR reminds me of God. Seriously, that beard. From a distance, in poor light, the God of Michelangelo’s Sistine…
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Re-Writing The Rules of the Game: Where Chile is Leading, Can Aotearoa-New Zealand Follow?
THE EYES OF THE LEFT, all around the world, should be on Chile.
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Who Poses the Bigger Threat: The Far Right, Or the Far Left?
EVEN THE HEADLINE is misleading: “How the SIS Missed the Threat of the Far Right”. Marc Dalder’s latest posting on the Newsroom site purports to offer evidence of the Service’s failure to adequately assess the danger posed to New Zealand society by Far Right and White Supremacist groups. In fact, from the documents Dalder relies upon, it is clear that the SIS assessed the threat potential of New Zealand’s right-wing extremists with considerable accuracy.
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Sucking Up and Kicking Down: The NZ Media Covers the Queenstown Summit.
THE NEW ZEALAND NEWS MEDIA’S coverage of the regular get-together of the Australian and New Zealand prime ministers was appalling.
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Australia’s Eschatological Diplomacy
Eschatology is a part of theology concerned with the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity. This concept is commonly referred to as “the end of the world” or “end times”. – Wikipedia
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Like We’ve Been Here Before: The “Friends” Reunion.
Seriously, what the hell would Ross, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe, Monica and Rachel have done if they had witnessed the murder of a black man by a dead-eyed cop? How would a hopeless methamphetamine addict have been received by Gunther? How would rape, domestic violence and gross economic exploitation have fitted into the comedic schema of “Friends”? How long would the friends of “Friends” have remained friends if these sorts of issues had suddenly become the main topics of conversation over all those café lattés? There aren’t a lot of laughs in injustice. At least, not a lot of laughs for liberals.
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The “Whys?” And “What Nows?” Of The Samoan Crisis.
THE QUESTION challenging both Samoans and Non-Samoans is “Why?” Surely, after more than two decades as Samoa’s prime minister, Tuilaepa…
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Working Alongside Maori Capitalism To Enrich “Aotearoa Inc.”
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS currently gripping Samoa calls into question John Minto’s optimistic conclusions regarding the He Puapua Report. Underlying the…
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MUST READ: Passing The Torch
‘LET THE WORD go forth from this time and place,” declaimed President John F. Kennedy on a freezing January day…