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This year ANZAC Day parades were cancelled for the first time ever. Instead we were invited to stand at dawn and remember the war dead. For this one day of the year we were called to think of the cost of war. We’re called to be mindful of suffering, conflict, the forging of a nation, and Trans-Tasman solidarity.
April 25: Day 31 of living in lock-down…
April 23: Day 29 of living in lock-down…
Here then, in the spirit of Devs, is one of the infinite number of histories of the Covid-19 virus and the global pandemic which it spawned.
We need a priority list of steps that the government can and should take immediately to help protect working people from the immediate devastation associated with what seems will be an inevitable deep recession. (I have stolen a few of these ideas from Greenpeace)
So earlier this week, two things happened. Winston got his lawsuit result back … and the National Party started demanding that he pay for it.
DEPOSING SIMON BRIDGES as Leader of the Opposition would cause the National Party more problems than it would solve.
Grumpy? Me? Surely not!
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Ardern
My sister Christine came out to New Zealand from London for the summer, as she usually does. She arrived on Christmas Day for an eight-week stay. Now it is mid-April, and she is still here. Thank goodness.