Support Your Local Chiefs
Why are we surprised and offended when the NZ Rugby Union produces a report which utterly fails to deliver even the most rudimentary justice to the young woman whose experiences called it forth?
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GUEST BLOG: Danyl Strypey Bruce – Culture is Not Property
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.
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Guns and hate caused Orlando mass shooting – not ISIS or Islam
The selection of a gay nightclub in Orlando is an assault on the very freedoms a liberal progressive modern society strives for. It angers in a unique way, the premeditated sophistication to understand how such an attack would resonate within the culture.
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How we tessellate – Dance Review
If you’re looking for a show to see between tonight and Saturday you will be entertained enthralled and inspired by the two new works in development, stationed at Basement theatre as a double act.
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GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – Moko Rangitoheriri
The anger has triggered finger pointing. The finger pointing has snowballed action. The action has forced reviews. So what will change? Will Moko be added to the ever increasing list of child abuse statistics, tut-tutted over, paper-pushed around in death as terribly as he was physically pushed around in life?
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Hear no poverty, see no poverty, speak no poverty: We have lost what it means to be a New Zealander
For some like the Key family, life is one long party. DJing, modelling, opening pop culture art events in Paris, Hawaiian mansions, foreign trusts, tax havens, property portfolios, Instagram followers and tax free capital gains.
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The European Song Conquest
JAMALA wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) for Ukraine with her controversial song “1944”.
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Can Trump win the Presidency? It depends how many white men really hate women
If Trump faces off against Hillary for the Presidency, the issue that seals it for him could have little to do with a fence along Mexico or intolerance of Muslims, it could well be a pent up misogyny the likes of which we have never seen before.
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Is it time to burn WINZ and Probations down to the ground and can CYFs & Corrections be saved?
As believers of the power for good a well funded state sector can create, we on the Left are big supporters of the state, so what do we do when we realise that some functions of state are not only broken and deformed, they are actually creating counter productive damage that demands a radical amputation and regrowth?
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VISA GRANTED FOR IRANIAN FILMAKER TO ATTEND DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL IN NEW ZEALAND
Doc Edge are thrilled to announce that a visa has been granted for Iranian filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami to attend the Documentary Edge International Film Festival in New Zealand.