Brothers – the Vigils are anti-male violence, not anti-male and the empathy of a Prime Minister
Jacinda’s apology captured all that guilt and shame and articulated it in a way that was raw and human, we are blessed to have her.
New Zealand Politics
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On Human Rights – Declared, Upheld, And Otherwise
The 10th of December marks the 70th Anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It’s a pretty interesting document – not least because, if you peruse its contents, it contains an array of “rights” that have largely fallen by the wayside here in modern, neoliberal society.
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Medicinal Cannabis Bill set to pass Parliament; patients celebrate ambivalently
“A lot of us also have mixed feelings at the moment. New Zealand is catching up with the rest of the world, but this new law has only delivered part of what we hoped for,”
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Why? What’s it to you?
“Well, actually…I like children!”
This is the response African-American novelist and poet Alice Walker gave when she was asked why she wanted to go to Gaza.
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Normalising The Unthinkable
It is the privilege of artists to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Which is exactly what so many of them are doing in response to the deepening crisis of anthropogenic global warming.
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Simon Bridges word cloud vs Jacinda’s word cloud
…poor old Simon, he can’t stop leaks in his party and he can’t catch a break from the Polls.
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Dave Macpherson: Bad call by Govt to scrap mental health training for cops
It’s not often I agree with the National Party on mental health issues, but the announcement late last week by Police Minister Stuart Nash that extra training for police recruits in mental health issues had been scrapped, had me searching for my blue cardigan for the first time in many years.
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A breath of fresh spring air shows the way out of a dark age in education
The restructuring of state education proposed by the government working group led by Bali Haque, feels like a fresh breath of spring air after 30 years in the dark ages of Tomorrow’s Schools.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Yesterday’s schools
Exactly 30 years ago, a taskforce headed by a supermarket magnate, and urged on by an ideological Treasury and rampantly privatising Labour Government, came up with a report on schooling that led to the Tomorrow’s Schools reports.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Calm down Duncan Garner
To be honest, I haven’t seen such hateful commentary by ordinary Kiwis in a long time, and that deeply concerns me as a New Zealander more than it does as a Māori because we have to find ways to accept one another and live together in this country.