Life in Lock Down: Day 3
March 28: First day of the first weekend in Lock Down. It feels like it’s been weeks since only Level 3 was declared last Tuesday, only four days ago.
New Zealand
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Life in Lock Down: Day 1
Day one of the Level 4 nationwide lock-down (or, DefCon 4 as I sometimes cheekily call it) started at 11.59PM on 25 March. For a moment, most of the nation held it’s collective breath. In that brief moment, as the countdown moved to one minute to midnight, everything changed.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Sharing would have been better
Anyway, I will leave the technical writing to others, but I do want to talk a bit about winning. Competition is healthy until it becomes unhealthy. Whether it be a sporting game, an educational outcome or anything else, sometimes one person alone does not come put on top. What you do about that defines who you are as a person, a country or a sporting tournament.
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MEDIA WATCH: Homophobic attack against Aziz Al-Sa’afin
This terrible act of homophobic violence against Aziz Al-Sa’afin was deeply moving this morning.
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Happy New Year 2019
Here’s to another circle around the Sun.
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Male Labour MPs take Twitter offence at Iranian handshakes (and what’s worse, you allowed Judith Collins to crow)
I get that McAnulty and Tirikatene were trying to be sensitive to Luxton’s perceived embarrassment but being Twitter offended is best left for the Wellington Twitteratti, not actual Members of Parliament.
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Waitangi Day 2018 – The joy of a leader who understands the Treaty, Māori will vote Jacinda forever & how Iwi Leaders have to acknowledge the political rise of Urban Māori
Jacinda’s desire to show Waitangi Day the respect it deserves with a 5 day tour visiting every Marae large and small alongside Ministers meekly lined up to do the BBQ cooking for Waitangi Breakfast is building a movement of aroha amongst Māori which will create a legacy relationship that is going to dominate Māori politics.
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Can the NZ Herald explain how this is breaking news?
Since when was Mike Hosking’s bullshit hot takes on any subject ‘Breaking News’.
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How Winston could use MMP for NZ First and put New Zealand second
There was a lot of behind the scenes happiness that Labour and NZ First were making great head way in terms of policy agreements, but the fact that the actual model of how the Government would function hasn’t yet been discussed should have Jacinda blinking rather than winking.