so Hipkins scolds Marama for saying cis white mails cause or the violence, but it appears from this article he doesn’t condemn the violence towards women at the protest. Good to know he’s looking out for men.
btw I saw the video clip of the 70 year old woman being punched by a trans rights activist. Will find the link and post, but it is despicle
Actually he has condemned the reported violence at the rally. Not sure he's been made aware of the lady punched specifically. Is she laying charges as she should.
Nah. He minimised what happened by focusing on the soup. Nothing about how terrifying it was for the people who were surrounded by the mob and couldn't get away. His silence on that is a passive sanctioning, no matter what he says about throwing things or violence against people speaking generally.
Nah, he minimised nothing! He stated something along the lines of whether it was juice or bricks it is unacceptable. He hasn't supported any violence from any side.
the claim is that he didn't condemn violence against women at the event. Which is true. He didn't say anything about that. He talked about not throwing things, and condemned the souping, but he said nothing about the terrorising of KJK and others there to the point that 111 calls were made and then they had to flee and even then the mob didn't let them leave, they had to muscle their way out until they reached the police (and the police had to help them leave, they weren't able to just walk out).
That's violence, it was frightening, it could have seriously harmed people, and Hipkins didn't say anything about it.
Hipkins was in a position to ensure the likelihood of violence was reduced, by ensuring the police response was adequate. From multiple accounts it appears the police were instructed not only to not control the crowd, but also not to intervene despite multiple calls to 111 and direct requests to police on the periphery to come and assist women to leave the rotunda.
Sean Plunket had dedicated his morning show to women calling in, and many told the same story about the deliberate inaction that contributed to the crowd's escalated behaviour.
Molly, I listened to Sean this morning as well. Did you hear the interview with one of the organisers of KJK's visit? If I heard it correctly, she claimed that police told her (she has it recorded) that they (the police) chose to be low key because they were afraid of the media imagery if they had to arrest and/or physically restrain trans activists.
Thanks Molly. It bothers me that the police consider 'optics' any kind of reason to not protect members of the public going about their lawful business.
This'll be the third time I've linked to Sean Plunket today (which is a surprise), but I THINK Katrina is on the second of the three parter he posted this morning.
There's three hours of people ringing in on the show. About two of them are testimonies of women that attended or were involved with the organisation of the #LetWomenSpeak event.
I think Katrina was on Part two, but please don't ask me to look through the whole thing to find it. I just confirmed that what liberty belle recalled – was what I heard as well.
Your video link was very helpful generally. I was replying to Liberty Belle, who was making statements of fact and appeared to want to get that backed up by someone’s else’s recollection rather than providing a link so we can see the context, tone, and what was specifically said.
(I haven’t yet heard the bit from Katrina about the police being afraid about PR)
NZ women watching the livestream, as well as those on site.
Many saying the call operator was apparently being deliberately obtuse. When KJK left, the operator said to one – Oh, that's alright then. She said, No. What about the other women?
Hipkins was in a position to ensure the likelihood of violence was reduced, by ensuring the police response was adequate.
All he needed to do was pick up the phone and call the Police Commissioner, Andrew Costner, and leave clear instructions. Or to get Stuart Nash to do it for him … and then fire him …
Strike me down with a feather, Police brass were interviewed on the Platform by Sean ‘Ungrateful Hua’ Plunket and unequivocally stated that Hipkins had instructed them to be kind to the protestors!? I hope that Ginny Andersen will have a firm word with those soft cops and commission an independent enquiry – Debbie Francis and Maria Dew come highly recommended.
you are really tying yourself up in knots over this.
Anker said,
he doesn’t condemn the violence towards women at the protest.
If you can find a statement where he does, I will be pleased. Because he should. Haven't seen or heard that statement myself yet.
saying you support the large number of people who weren't violent is a way of avoiding condemning the violence that did happen. Of course he doesn't support violence generally, that's a given.
If the clip you hoped to post is the one that Molly posted then the lady was charging violently at the other person. I would welcome a complaint being laid and the court deciding.
Well I watched the video you posted. Sure looks like she was charging to me. I'm not saying a punch wasn't made, but maybe it was self defence and thats why I hope the lady lays charges and someone can get to the truth of the matter.
You saw a video of an elderly women getting punched twice. You also considered her movement forward as "charging".
One of these was explicit and unequivocal violence.
One was a possible interpretation, but not necessarily true.
"If the clip you hoped to post is the one that Molly posted then the lady was charging violently at the other person. I would welcome a complaint being laid and the court deciding."
"Well I watched the video you posted. Sure looks like she was charging to me. I'm not saying a punch wasn't made, but maybe it was self defence and thats why I hope the lady lays charges and someone can get to the truth of the matter."
Both of these comments highlights the possible interpretation, rather than the definite act of violence.
Now, I suggest you do what I have just done. Download the video, and playback slowly.
It seemed to me that the lady was attempting to retrieve something.
In her left hand she has a sign the same size, shape and colour as the one the man is holding. My initial impression, that she was endeavouring to retrieve something, is reinforced by the slow motion playback which shows her right hand moving towards the sign held as if to get it back.
If you bother listening to the testimonies of those there, many reported having their signs wrenched out of their grip, and ripped to shreds.
I'm not stating that this is unequivocally the case, but I'm thinking it is the most probable explanation of what you are seeing.
What I don't really understand is why you would expect an older woman to choose to violently charge that young person for no reason whatsoever, which is what is needed for your scenario to be at all feasible.
“Maybe it is self-defence” IS an excuse for violence. Now ask yourself, was it a justified excuse?
You appear to have been right about the sign belonging to the person punching.
So my interpretation is wrong about the lady trying to retrieve her sign. I have no idea about the scene recorded and why she was headed for him. I still would find it unusual for someone of that age to be the aggressor, but perhaps more details will come out.
And RBO, I realize that Hipkins may have mentioned the violence, by it wasn’t in the article.
I see a delegation in the UK is going to try and meet with our ambassador in London and ask him how come one of their citizens was left so unprotected by the police
Yes Marama was either knocked down or knocked by the bikes handlebars. I have heard differing accounts which is normal with news.
Yesterday on one of these threads I utterly condemned this action if it was deliberate and wished Marama a good recovery.
There is very little information about what happened, but I would be willing to bet it wasn't a gender critical women involved in the incident. I could be wrong of course.
The motorbike issue makes it worst that Marama who may have suffered a deliberate hit by the bike, failed to condemn the violence against women at the protest. Where do you stand on that violence Robert?
You have misrepresented certain politicians and what they have said or done quite a bit lately. When commenters (not me) pulled you up on it you have not acknowledged your mistake. I suspect it is not deliberate but you are not reading articles carefully enough. That's not a "mental health problem". That's carelessness.
And btw, "losing the plot" dose not mean a person has mental heath problems – not in my neck of the woods anyway. It is a saying denoting someone has got something wrong.
Creating dramatics for the sake of it which has been prevalent on both sides over this issue is no help to anyone.
It would only take an identity of the puncher for an assault charge (whatever provoked the women to move on him only required withdrawal or pushing her away).
The Ambassador should simply say London police do exactly the same thing at the monthly Hyde Park gatherings of LWS (allow counter-protestors to kettle the gatherings and shout them down).
Also at a weekend lesbian gathering in the UK (in a hall), they were only able to leave in small groups with police help.
And inform of the facts of the Auckland event.
1. KJK had tomato juice poured on her by someone born inter-sex (who has received death threats since).
2. Her security threw a women to the ground by the rotunda (it's on KJK own video feed).
3. No blow was struck to KJK, she was however in a security team bubble pushing through crowd to get out of the rotunda area to get to a pathway out from the park.
Sure, it's a risk to try and move through a crowd, and if the event is centred around your presence (and there is some verbal going on as well) it would be natural to have some fear.
I watched the link Weka had posted of Posies video and I agree with you that she probably was afraid. Maybe not for her life but genuinly afraid. I’m also a little surprised she was permitted to continue recording inside a Police Vehicle. Hardly being shut down. Freedom of Speech met Consequences that day.
Wasn't a quote. I use quote marks when I quote someone.
Rest assured, you didn't say the word "uppity".
I was extrapolating the possible interpretations of the word "Consequences" that followed your completely non-ironic use of the words "Freedom of Speech".
Generally my position on protest is that if you push the boundaries then you take the risk. Push back should be proportionate to the situation. Remember the naked woman at the parliament protests who had oiled her body so the police couldn't hold her so they grabbed her hair instead? She understood what the risks were and knew what she was doing.
But it's not her security team, a woman is pulled back, taken to the ground and held down (this is the last seen of it).
PS – the delegation “to our ambassador in London” seems to lack cogniscance that allowing kettling is standard practice in the UK and at Albert Park there was an effort to have a separation barrier.
If you say so. But nothing about it is untrue – the same things occur more often in the UK than here.
It's what you left out that is the minimising of violence against women.
Apart from Hyde Park yesterday, the situation in the UK has been different than Ak or Hobart, in that police have generally done their job and prevented harm being done. In Ak, the police chose to absent themselves and let things play out.
One of the consequences is that the ante is now upped. I will be completely unsurprised if we start seeing more assaults now.
It is a regular monthly event in London. The speakers there are known in the UK.
There are always people trying to drown out the speakers, but comments made by regulars say there seemed to be an elevated feeling of threat. That continued when they left as they were followed until they went directly to the police.
The event in Albert Park had been ramped up by media misinformation and intensified by comments from our politicians and talking heads.
Glinner posted a couple of videos of police leaving the scene.
A woman who requires security because of credible death threats, should be grateful for tomato juice you say? No concern about the visceral fear of having someone pour an unknown substance on your head, after receiving yet another death threat under your hotel room door? Or the risk of crushing?
Correction to 2. (not her security team) and it does not belong in the list – as it was not an action by the security team hired by a British passport holder during her visit to New Zealand.
My comment was in relation to the specific's of KJK.
Your lack of interest in the inter-sex person (who poured the tomato juice) claiming she was later assaulted is noted. Your lack of notice of the woman taken to the ground and held own (video cuts at that point) or the incident where a man head locks a woman … etc
One wonders if the WSPU were accused of being anti-man or anti-patriarchy for seeking their rights.
Winston Churchill of course noted his fear of the Commons public spaces being accessed by a woman back in 1919
Winston: “I find a woman's intrusion into the House of Commons as embarrassing as if she burst into my bathroom when I had nothing to defend myself with, not even a sponge.”
Nancy: “You are not handsome enough to have worries of that kind.”
I suspect he was fearful of debating with women as political equals.
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Clearly the British anti-trans activist wasn’t closed down because she’s a woman. Her speech was halted by people power because she’s promoting hatred towards an at risk group who’re tired of suffering the type of abuse and stigmatisation that Parker and her fanatics are promoting.
Posie Parker knows this, but instead of letting that understanding govern her actions, she attempted to manipulate the narrative again by playing the victim card."
Yeah, because bloke's reckons on blogs are always right.
Did you see the statement from the Australian Jewish Association repudiating the lies told about the "Nazis" at the Australian protest.? The lies and smears that have been repeated all week.
Did you see the horrible anti-women placards and posters carried by the so called peaceful demonstrators. The ones with the threats of sexual violence?
Meaning what? One night, walking home by myself, I felt threatened by 2 men rapidly approaching me who I thought were chasing me. I ran to stay ahead of them. It turns out they were just running to cross the road ahead of traffic. Though I still stayed well ahead of them making my way home just in case.
Promoting extreme rhetoric onto her in order to have her written off in the media probably isn't lessening the threat they feel either. Its the kind of thing which results in a counter protester getting so worked up they feel the need to punch a 70 year old woman for approaching them.
I have felt threatened by ordinary people all through my life, not only threatened but beaten up and raped .They were able to do it because as a woman I'm smaller and vulnerable.
Yep I've felt threatened plenty of times in my life and it is never an enjoyable experience although I can look after myself so am sure for me it wasn't as scary as it would have been for your friends. Aggressive, threatening, violent behavior is never acceptable except in a small number of very distinct scenarios.
And one things for certain, Robert is definitely right!
No, no, no: three reckons do not make a yes, but I reckon Robert is right!
Tony Veitch: I said the above because the very few trans people I know have all said they had felt threatened by ordinary people at some stage in their lives.
"Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker … is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”,"
"Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker, and is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”,Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker, and is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”," is a quote from Stuff.
Can you point to a quote she has made?
Besides does 'exclusionary radical' equate with 'violent'? Was she being violent or fomenting violence at this rally?
Robert she's not an anti trans activist, she's a women's rights activist.
How is she "promoting hatred" against an at risk group? Are you suggesting that letting women speak is promoting hatred? Please give an example.
Am assuming you've reported a hate incident to the police in regards to her "promoting hatred"? If not then I have to assume that is because you don't really believe what you are saying.
Any and all "abuse" both physical and verbal was coming from the TRA's as far as I can tell
“Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker … is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”,”
I have not said that, Anker, nor do I believe that.
What is your response to this statement (I've posted it 3 times now 🙂
“Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker … is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”,”
I haven't seen her use that slogan. It is one that is used against us. We do want to have the ability to exclude men who identify as female from our change rooms, sporting competitions etc.
I follow a community forum where it's common for outrageous claims to be made about politicians, suggesting that what they are not reported as saying means they believe something.
A made up example, but fitting the pattern. The PM makes a speech somewhere about crime. There's media reporting on the event which does not mention anything about ram raids. All people know is what's in the press. Next day I read the PM is soft on ram raids, has said nothing about ram raids and doesn't care about them.
Or he is in the news over a couple of weeks and hasn't specifically addressed poverty, or he may have but the comments haven't been in the columns, over the radio waves on our tvs. That translates to "Hipkins is doing nothing about poverty. He doesn't care about it."(That's a specific one to Jacinda Ardern.)
The way around it? Maybe the PM and Ministers can have a little prologue before they any speech listing all the things they're for and against so the bases are covered. Then the debate will get to the order of mentioning topics in that list or the number of words used in the references. The cost of living being mentioned after health resources would mean he doesn't care about the cost of living and minimises its impact on families. This is the world we live in.
A made up example, but fitting the pattern. The PM makes a speech somewhere about crime. There's media reporting on the event which does not mention anything about ram raids. All people know is what's in the press. Next day I read the PM is soft on ram raids, has said nothing about ram raids and doesn't care about them.
I watched a re-run of today's post cabinet press conference this evening and Hipkins was bombarded with questions over the week-end's events. In reply to one journalist he made clear his abhorrence of violence and mentioned a couple of examples that occurred in Auckland. But those comments don't appear to have been reported in the media (thus far) so now he is facing charges of not caring about violence against women including from one or two commenters on this site.
The PM should have front footed it with the Auckland situation. I listened and it seemed he only mentioned it as a result of questions.
I thought that was poor. Front footing says
a) you are not ignoring it
b) it is top of mind
c) gives you the ability to guide or set the parameters
I got the impression had the questions not been asked he would not have made any comment. very poor. What he was condemning was garbled. He should have made a holding comment on Saturday afternoon. Saying resorting to violence is bad is or should be uncontroversial or do the trans community have a special pass.
All the while those of us watched as overseas NGOs swung into action drafting letters to their liaison minsters to send on to NZ, people were organising how to boycott NZ produce & women's groups were contacting women's groups here in NZ to offer support, prominent women in the UK made appraoches to the NZ govt. We could all see this in real time.
It came to Monday and we have no comment/condemnation from NZ Government.
I tune in most Mondays to the post cabinet press conference and there is a format which is always followed. The PM spends around 15 minutes on household matters such as recent activities involving himself and his ministers followed by a rundown of what is coming up over the next week or so. They rarely comment on anything else unless something earth shattering occurs that is relevant to government business. Ardern's shock resignation for example.
Then they open up for questions and that is when the nitty gritty is discussed. Hipkins would have known he would be closely questioned on the events of the week-end even though it had nothing to do with the government. He responded clearly, fairly and in tune with the facts and not with some of the fiction that has been espoused – on both sides to be fair.
Netanyahu is being told by his fascist right wing partners to kill off resistance to authoritarian government or they withdraw from the government (one built around legislation to prevent legal moves against him).
But sure indigenous people need to be careful about what they say to a white social media blog video journalist. Because MSM will hold them accountable? (sarcasm emoji insert).
She is definitely, 100% not suffering from shock in that video as anyone who knows what shock looks like will tell you.
In my opinion she is just a despicable, nasty, person who has now shown her true racist colors and who is now an enabler and apologist for abuse and physical violence carried out by men against woman.
I will never vote for The Greens while she (and a few others) are running the party.
Disgraceful.
PS – I don't think people will have yet realized (because many of them will be sitting in their bubble with their like minded friends celebrating) how much damage this weekend may have done to support for the Green Party and how much it may have turned or started to turn many ordinary people against the whole gender ideology and trans movements. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
Hipkins has not condemned the violence at the protest. ie said it was regrettable that women who gathered were not able to start their events, barricades were breached and people injured by others. Apologise to JKM & those injured.
He is still pussy footing. The thugs will be emboldened to use violence against any women's rights meetings.
I could write a statement for him tomorrow that would sheet home responsibility, apologise for the violence, say it is not the way we do things around here, promise to do better by referring issue to ???? HR Commissioner, Independent Police Conduct Authority and I guarantee he would come out looking caring about all sectors.
And I was not even a speech writer when i worked in Parlt but worked with ours on speeches for he portfolios.
But I feel there is not the political will.
Women are just not worth it to Hipkins and the wider Labour Party.
This leaves the IPCA and also the United Nations.
Reem Alsalem (Jordan) is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, since August 2021.
Yes, there is a problem if people cannot safely hold gatherings.
Thus he could say – "that after what happened at Albert Park there will be some review of arrangements for such events. And guidelines provided for councils, organisers and police."
Women are just not worth it to Hipkins and the wider Labour Party.
Really? The demographics of the supporters of left and right wing parties are what they are.
The HRC and the UN positions are not in line with the KJK narrative …
I think you have missed the point. I referred to the work that the Special Rapporteur in the UN working on violence against women:
As violence against women continues to impact the lives of women and girls everywhere, the establishment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, as the first independent human rights mechanism on the elimination of violence against women, represented an important benchmark within the global women’s rights movement. Not only did it recognize violence against women as a human rights violation, but it also tasked the Special Rapporteur with ensuring that violence against women was integrated into the United Nations human rights framework and its mechanisms.
This does not have anything to do with trans rights per se. It's focus is on violence against women. My suggestion was nothing to do with KJM. My suggestion was that it be used to investigate the cause of the violence against women at Albert Park especially if there is no condemnation from the PM or investigation by NZ Police.
Again you have missed my point in this:
'Women are just not worth it to Hipkins and the wider Labour Party.'
I was not talking about demographics and voting numbers per se. I was talking about which policies are what we (as analysts or adivsors) used to call 'sexy' and which ones are not.
At the moment 'trans' anything are 'sexy' (maybe as a result of concessions sought by the Greens in the coalition agreement to No debate)
Women issues are not 'sexy', they are probably regarded as passe. Equal pay for jobs of equal value is difficult work, progressions are difficult, sexism & ageism & ableism, all likely to affect women are on the rise according to anecdote. The response of many is crudely 'look we gave you the vote a 100 years ago, what more do you want?"
When you have sexy policies that capture the political wing it is difficult for:
1 politicians, when they are whipped to make any headway if they do not go along with the said policy
and
2 politicians find it difficult to get traction for issues that are not considered sexy/appealing…..women's issues seems to be one of these. We have an invisible Minister working in a portfolio that is not seen as go ahead and you are unlikely to make your mark advocating for women. This is my perception not that I agree with it.
Hipkins has not condemned the violence at the protest
He had.
Hipkins said "violence shouldn't come into it" and no one should use it to convey their views.
"I don't believe people should throw things at a protest, whether what they're throwing is a soup or a brick," he told reporters during his post-Cabinet press conference.
"Ultimately, the right to free speech does not extend to the right to physical violence, and so I would condemn that, regardless of who's engaging in that type of activity."
On the matter of the police response
Hipkins didn't go into detail on what he thought of the police response, saying this isn't something ministers should give direction on.
That shows the problem. Hipkins is in a totally no win situation. He needs you to write his statements for him, not just on this issue but on others I suppose. When that happens you can say he is saying the right things.
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In our Weekly Roundup last week we covered news from Auckland Transport that the WX1 Western Express is going to get an upgrade next year with double decker electric buses. As part of the announcement, AT also said “Since we introduced the WX1 Western Express last November we have seen ...
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to April 29 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Stats NZ releases its statutory report on Census 2023 tomorrow.Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivers a pre-Budget speech at ...
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic ...
The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The Government says this will ...
This is a column to say thank you. So many of have been in touch since Mum died to say so many kind and thoughtful things. You’re wonderful, all of you. You’ve asked how we’re doing, how Dad’s doing. A little more realisation each day, of the irretrievable finality of ...
Identifying the engine type in your car is crucial for various reasons, including maintenance, repairs, and performance upgrades. Knowing the specific engine model allows you to access detailed technical information, locate compatible parts, and make informed decisions about modifications. This comprehensive guide will provide you with a step-by-step approach to ...
Introduction: The allure of racing is undeniable. The thrill of speed, the roar of engines, and the exhilaration of competition all contribute to the allure of this adrenaline-driven sport. For those who yearn to experience the pinnacle of racing, becoming a race car driver is the ultimate dream. However, the ...
Introduction Automobiles have become ubiquitous in modern society, serving as a primary mode of transportation and a symbol of economic growth and personal mobility. With countless vehicles traversing roads and highways worldwide, it begs the question: how many cars are there in the world? Determining the precise number is a ...
Maintaining a safe and reliable vehicle requires regular inspections. Whether it’s a routine maintenance checkup or a safety inspection, knowing how long the process will take can help you plan your day accordingly. This article delves into the factors that influence the duration of a car inspection and provides an ...
Mazda Motor Corporation, commonly known as Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The company was founded in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd., and began producing vehicles in 1931. Mazda is primarily known for its production of passenger cars, but ...
Your car battery is an essential component that provides power to start your engine, operate your electrical systems, and store energy. Over time, batteries can weaken and lose their ability to hold a charge, which can lead to starting problems, power failures, and other issues. Replacing your battery before it ...
In most states, you cannot register a car without a valid driver’s license. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Exceptions to the RuleIf you are under 18 years old: In some states, you can register a car in your name even if you do not ...
Mazda, a Japanese automotive manufacturer with a rich history of innovation and engineering excellence, has emerged as a formidable player in the global car market. Known for its reputation of producing high-quality, fuel-efficient, and driver-oriented vehicles, Mazda has consistently garnered praise from industry experts and consumers alike. In this article, ...
Struts are an essential part of a car’s suspension system. They are responsible for supporting the weight of the car and damping the oscillations of the springs. Struts are typically made of steel or aluminum and are filled with hydraulic fluid. How Do Struts Work? Struts work by transferring the ...
Car registration is a mandatory process that all vehicle owners must complete annually. This process involves registering your car with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and paying an associated fee. The registration process ensures that your vehicle is properly licensed and insured, and helps law enforcement and other authorities ...
Zoom is a video conferencing service that allows you to share your screen, webcam, and audio with other participants. In addition to sharing your own audio, you can also share the audio from your computer with other participants. This can be useful for playing music, sharing presentations with audio, or ...
Building your own computer can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to get a high-performance machine tailored to your specific needs. However, it also requires careful planning and execution, and one of the most important factors to consider is the time it will take. The exact time it takes to ...
Sleep mode is a power-saving state that allows your computer to quickly resume operation without having to boot up from scratch. This can be useful if you need to step away from your computer for a short period of time but don’t want to shut it down completely. There are ...
Introduction Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) has revolutionized the field of translation by harnessing the power of technology to assist human translators in their work. This innovative approach combines specialized software with human expertise to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of translations. In this comprehensive article, we will delve into the ...
In today’s digital age, mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Among the vast array of portable computing options available, iPads and tablet computers stand out as two prominent contenders. While both offer similar functionalities, there are subtle yet significant differences between these two devices. This ...
A computer is an electronic device that can be programmed to carry out a set of instructions. The basic components of a computer are the processor, memory, storage, input devices, and output devices. The Processor The processor, also known as the central processing unit (CPU), is the brain of the ...
Voice Memos is a convenient app on your iPhone that allows you to quickly record and store audio snippets. These recordings can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as taking notes, capturing ideas, or recording interviews. While you can listen to your voice memos on your iPhone, you ...
Laptop screens are essential for interacting with our devices and accessing information. However, when lines appear on the screen, it can be frustrating and disrupt productivity. Understanding the underlying causes of these lines is crucial for finding effective solutions. Types of Screen Lines Horizontal lines: Also known as scan ...
Right-clicking is a common and essential computer operation that allows users to access additional options and settings. While most desktop computers have dedicated right-click buttons on their mice, laptops often do not have these buttons due to space limitations. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on how to right-click ...
Powering up and shutting down your ASUS laptop is an essential task for any laptop user. Locating the power button can sometimes be a hassle, especially if you’re new to ASUS laptops. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on where to find the power button on different ASUS laptop ...
Dell laptops are renowned for their reliability, performance, and versatility. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or just someone who needs a reliable computing device, a Dell laptop can meet your needs. However, if you’re new to Dell laptops, you may be wondering how to get started. In this comprehensive ...
Two-thirds of the country think that “New Zealand’s economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”. They also believe that “New Zealand needs a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful”. These are just two of a handful of stunning new survey results released ...
In today’s digital world, screenshots have become an indispensable tool for communication and documentation. Whether you need to capture an important email, preserve a website page, or share an error message, screenshots allow you to quickly and easily preserve digital information. If you’re an Asus laptop user, there are several ...
A factory reset restores your Gateway laptop to its original factory settings, erasing all data, apps, and personalizations. This can be necessary to resolve software issues, remove viruses, or prepare your laptop for sale or transfer. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to factory reset your Gateway laptop: Method 1: ...
“You talking about me?”The neoliberal denigration of the past was nowhere more unrelenting than in its depiction of the public service. The Post Office and the Railways were held up as being both irremediably inefficient and scandalously over-manned. Playwright Roger Hall’s “Glide Time” caricatures were presented as accurate depictions of ...
Roger Partridge writes – When the Coalition Government took office last October, it inherited a country on a precipice. With persistent inflation, decades of insipid productivity growth and crises in healthcare, education, housing and law and order, it is no exaggeration to suggest New Zealand’s first-world status was ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – In 2022, the Curriculum Centre at the Ministry of Education employed 308 staff, according to an Official Information Request. Earlier this week it was announced 202 of those staff were being cut. When you look up “The New Zealand Curriculum” on the Ministry of ...
Chris Bishop’s bill has stirred up a hornets nest of opposition. Photo: Lynn Grieveson for The KākāTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate from the last day included:A crescendo of opposition to the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill is ...
Monday left me brokenTuesday, I was through with hopingWednesday, my empty arms were openThursday, waiting for love, waiting for loveThe end of another week that left many of us asking WTF? What on earth has NZ gotten itself into and how on earth could people have voluntarily signed up for ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.State of humanity, 20242024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?Full story Share ...
Determining the hardest sport in the world is a subjective matter, as the difficulty level can vary depending on individual abilities, physical attributes, and experience. However, based on various factors including physical demands, technical skills, mental fortitude, and overall accomplishment, here is an exploration of some of the most challenging ...
The allure of sport transcends age, culture, and geographical boundaries. It captivates hearts, ignites passions, and provides unparalleled entertainment. Behind the spectacle, however, lies a fascinating world of financial investment and expenditure. Among the vast array of competitive pursuits, one question looms large: which sport carries the hefty title of ...
Introduction Pickleball, a rapidly growing paddle sport, has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions around the world. Its blend of tennis, badminton, and table tennis elements has made it a favorite among players of all ages and skill levels. As the sport’s popularity continues to surge, the question on ...
Abstract: Soccer, the global phenomenon captivating millions worldwide, has a rich history that spans centuries. Its origins trace back to ancient civilizations, but the modern version we know and love emerged through a complex interplay of cultural influences and innovations. This article delves into the fascinating journey of soccer’s evolution, ...
Tinting car windows offers numerous benefits, including enhanced privacy, reduced glare, UV protection, and a more stylish look for your vehicle. However, the cost of window tinting can vary significantly depending on several factors. This article provides a comprehensive guide to help you understand how much you can expect to ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Asia Pacific Report Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and similar student-led protests in the United States. The camp was pitched as mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and the near-total destruction of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James B. Dorey, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong Australian teddy bear bees are cute and fluffy, but get a look at that massive (unbarbed) stinger! James Dorey Photography Most of us have been stung by a bee and we ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Roberts, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong Aussie~mobs/FlickrVictor Farr, a private in the 1st Infantry Battalion, was among the first to land at Anzac Cove just before dawn on April 25 1915. Victor Farr ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Gregory Moore I had the good fortune to care for the sugar gum at The University of Melbourne’s Burnley Gardens in Victoria where I worked for ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this week’s Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918.Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Holmes, Professorial Fellow in Sport, University of Canberra When the news broke last weekend that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive to a banned drug in early 2021 and were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games six months later ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cally Jetta, Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead; College for First Nations, University of Southern Queensland Australian War MemorialAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people, as well as sensitive historical information ...
RNZ News Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand’s coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability Issues portfolio in a reshuffle. Climate Change and Revenue Minister Simon Watts will take Lee’s spot in cabinet. Simmonds was a minister outside of cabinet. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University laurello/Shutterstock Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by ...
Analysis - Christopher Luxon framing the demotion of two ministers as the portfolios getting "too complex" is a charitable way of saying they weren't up to the job. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With Jim Chalmers’s third budget on May 14, Australians will be looking for some more cost-of-living relief – beyond the tax cuts – although they have been warned extra measures will be modest. As ...
Analysis: Melissa Lee has lost the media portfolio and her spot in Cabinet after multiple failed attempts to find solutions for a media industry in crisis. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister announced Lee would be losing her spot in Cabinet along with her media and communications ministerial portfolio. The job ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Wilmot, Senior Lecturer, Film, Deakin University Among the many Australian who served during the second world war, there is a small group of people whose stories remain largely untold. These are the Muslim men and women who, while small in number, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Saunders, PhD Candidate, University of Canberra There has been much analysis and praise of Justice Michael Lee’s recent judgement in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Channel Ten. Many people were openly relieved to read Lee’s “forensic” and “nuanced” application of law ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Gibbs, Program Director for the Bachelor of Education, Griffith University zEdward_Indy/Shutterstock Around one in 20 people has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It’s one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and often continues into adulthood. ADHD is diagnosed ...
The Fairer Future coalition of anti-poverty groups say Whaikaha must be properly funded going forward, and that to argue that poor financial management of the new Ministry is a red herring by the Prime Minister. ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is today congratulating Hon. Paul Goldsmith on his appointment as Minister for Media and Communications and urges him to rule out state intervention in the private media sector. ...
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day ...
Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits and quirks of New Zealanders at large. This week: writer and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2024, Lauren Groff.The book I wish I’d writtenIf I wish I’d written a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Fechner, Research Fellow, Social Marketing, Griffith University mavo/Shutterstock Imagine having dinner at a restaurant. The menu offers plant-based meat alternatives made mostly from vegetables, mushrooms, legumes and wheat that mimic meat in taste, texture and smell. Despite being given that ...
“Three Strikes is a dead-end policy proposed by a dead-end government. The Three Strikes law ignores the causes of crime, instead just brutalising people already crushed by the cost of living.” ...
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so Hipkins scolds Marama for saying cis white mails cause or the violence, but it appears from this article he doesn’t condemn the violence towards women at the protest. Good to know he’s looking out for men.
btw I saw the video clip of the 70 year old woman being punched by a trans rights activist. Will find the link and post, but it is despicle
Actually he has condemned the reported violence at the rally. Not sure he's been made aware of the lady punched specifically. Is she laying charges as she should.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131615586/prime-minister-chris-hipkins-condemns-juice-
Nah. He minimised what happened by focusing on the soup. Nothing about how terrifying it was for the people who were surrounded by the mob and couldn't get away. His silence on that is a passive sanctioning, no matter what he says about throwing things or violence against people speaking generally.
Nah, he minimised nothing! He stated something along the lines of whether it was juice or bricks it is unacceptable. He hasn't supported any violence from any side.
the claim is that he didn't condemn violence against women at the event. Which is true. He didn't say anything about that. He talked about not throwing things, and condemned the souping, but he said nothing about the terrorising of KJK and others there to the point that 111 calls were made and then they had to flee and even then the mob didn't let them leave, they had to muscle their way out until they reached the police (and the police had to help them leave, they weren't able to just walk out).
That's violence, it was frightening, it could have seriously harmed people, and Hipkins didn't say anything about it.
In the article ….
"Hipkins said he supported the “significant number” of trans rights counter-protesters who did not use violence."
ergo: he doesn’t support any violence
How, as Anker stated, is he supporting Men more than Women.
Hipkins was in a position to ensure the likelihood of violence was reduced, by ensuring the police response was adequate. From multiple accounts it appears the police were instructed not only to not control the crowd, but also not to intervene despite multiple calls to 111 and direct requests to police on the periphery to come and assist women to leave the rotunda.
Sean Plunket had dedicated his morning show to women calling in, and many told the same story about the deliberate inaction that contributed to the crowd's escalated behaviour.
Molly, I listened to Sean this morning as well. Did you hear the interview with one of the organisers of KJK's visit? If I heard it correctly, she claimed that police told her (she has it recorded) that they (the police) chose to be low key because they were afraid of the media imagery if they had to arrest and/or physically restrain trans activists.
Yes, that was Katrina Biggs IIRC. She has a recording of them saying it was bad for optics.
Thanks Molly. It bothers me that the police consider 'optics' any kind of reason to not protect members of the public going about their lawful business.
please link.
This'll be the third time I've linked to Sean Plunket today (which is a surprise), but I THINK Katrina is on the second of the three parter he posted this morning.
https://youtu.be/id36-purKMI
Sorry Weka, I was 'fact checking' myself with Molly to make sure I heard it correctly.
If you provide a link we can all see what was said instead of relying on people’s memory.
Or relying on people’s ‘extrapolations’ …
exactly.
There's three hours of people ringing in on the show. About two of them are testimonies of women that attended or were involved with the organisation of the #LetWomenSpeak event.
I think Katrina was on Part two, but please don't ask me to look through the whole thing to find it. I just confirmed that what liberty belle recalled – was what I heard as well.
Your video link was very helpful generally. I was replying to Liberty Belle, who was making statements of fact and appeared to want to get that backed up by someone’s else’s recollection rather than providing a link so we can see the context, tone, and what was specifically said.
(I haven’t yet heard the bit from Katrina about the police being afraid about PR)
I think the You Tube comments said they had women from overseas ringing NZ Police to get action at Albert Park.
NZ women watching the livestream, as well as those on site.
Many saying the call operator was apparently being deliberately obtuse. When KJK left, the operator said to one – Oh, that's alright then. She said, No. What about the other women?
All he needed to do was pick up the phone and call the Police Commissioner, Andrew Costner, and leave clear instructions. Or to get Stuart Nash to do it for him … and then fire him …
From many of the first-hand testimonies – given on The Platform linked above – the police instructions appeared to be clear. Do nothing.
If true, it is worth an inquiry.
Strike me down with a feather, Police brass were interviewed on the Platform by Sean ‘Ungrateful Hua’ Plunket and unequivocally stated that Hipkins had instructed them to be kind to the protestors!? I hope that Ginny Andersen will have a firm word with those soft cops and commission an independent enquiry – Debbie Francis and Maria Dew come highly recommended.
you are really tying yourself up in knots over this.
Anker said,
If you can find a statement where he does, I will be pleased. Because he should. Haven't seen or heard that statement myself yet.
saying you support the large number of people who weren't violent is a way of avoiding condemning the violence that did happen. Of course he doesn't support violence generally, that's a given.
Try at 10:30.
https://youtu.be/cJxBaTsIEO4
Short of prostrating himself at your feet i suspect you will never be happy with his defence of non-violence.
Generalised comment. Not specific.
If the clip you hoped to post is the one that Molly posted then the lady was charging violently at the other person. I would welcome a complaint being laid and the court deciding.
"If the clip you hoped to post is the one that Molly posted then the lady was charging violently at the other person. "
How do you know that? There were multiple instances of women having their signs ripped from them.
Do you have a video that shows the full lead up to the incident?
(It didn't look like she was charging to me, but happy to view what further information you have.)
Well I watched the video you posted. Sure looks like she was charging to me. I'm not saying a punch wasn't made, but maybe it was self defence and thats why I hope the lady lays charges and someone can get to the truth of the matter.
So, no. I don't know what else to say, other than I thought you may have had something for a second other than an excuse for violence.
Once again you are putting words in my mouth. I am NOT making excuses for violence.
You saw a video of an elderly women getting punched twice. You also considered her movement forward as "charging".
One of these was explicit and unequivocal violence.
One was a possible interpretation, but not necessarily true.
"If the clip you hoped to post is the one that Molly posted then the lady was charging violently at the other person. I would welcome a complaint being laid and the court deciding."
"Well I watched the video you posted. Sure looks like she was charging to me. I'm not saying a punch wasn't made, but maybe it was self defence and thats why I hope the lady lays charges and someone can get to the truth of the matter."
Both of these comments highlights the possible interpretation, rather than the definite act of violence.
Now, I suggest you do what I have just done. Download the video, and playback slowly.
It seemed to me that the lady was attempting to retrieve something.
In her left hand she has a sign the same size, shape and colour as the one the man is holding. My initial impression, that she was endeavouring to retrieve something, is reinforced by the slow motion playback which shows her right hand moving towards the sign held as if to get it back.
If you bother listening to the testimonies of those there, many reported having their signs wrenched out of their grip, and ripped to shreds.
I'm not stating that this is unequivocally the case, but I'm thinking it is the most probable explanation of what you are seeing.
What I don't really understand is why you would expect an older woman to choose to violently charge that young person for no reason whatsoever, which is what is needed for your scenario to be at all feasible.
“Maybe it is self-defence” IS an excuse for violence. Now ask yourself, was it a justified excuse?
The woman was holding a poster herself – she may have been trying to retrieve a poster for someone she was with.
Second request for the eye-roll emoticon…
You appear to have been right about the sign belonging to the person punching.
So my interpretation is wrong about the lady trying to retrieve her sign. I have no idea about the scene recorded and why she was headed for him. I still would find it unusual for someone of that age to be the aggressor, but perhaps more details will come out.
https://twitter.com/MadDogCoin/status/1640628139922714624?s=20
Full incident on YouTube:
https://twitter.com/SimonRAnderson1/status/1640924419957874691?s=20
A 70+ year old lady "charging violently". Yea….nah.
https://www.todayfm.co.nz/home/opinion/2023/03/rachel-smalley-how-on-earth-did-the-greens-become-so-antiwomen.html
yes how did the Greens become so anti women?
And RBO, I realize that Hipkins may have mentioned the violence, by it wasn’t in the article.
I see a delegation in the UK is going to try and meet with our ambassador in London and ask him how come one of their citizens was left so unprotected by the police
Was Marama knocked to the ground by a motorcyclist?
Found this: [unlinked quote deleted]
I've deleted your unquoted link. Feel free to put it up again with link.
Probably a white cis man on the bike hell he probably did it on purpose. !!!!
Yes Marama was either knocked down or knocked by the bikes handlebars. I have heard differing accounts which is normal with news.
Yesterday on one of these threads I utterly condemned this action if it was deliberate and wished Marama a good recovery.
There is very little information about what happened, but I would be willing to bet it wasn't a gender critical women involved in the incident. I could be wrong of course.
The motorbike issue makes it worst that Marama who may have suffered a deliberate hit by the bike, failed to condemn the violence against women at the protest. Where do you stand on that violence Robert?
2.2.1.3
So you are prepared to misrepresent him with "from this article he doesn’t condemn the violence towards women at the protest."
despite your comment
"Hipkins may have mentioned the violence, by it wasn’t in the article."
Do you know if the lady is pressing charges. Do you agree she should?
By far the huge majority there were peaceful as they were, the following day.
Sadly Anker has lost the plot.
don't do that. It's starting to look like a pattern from you.
Anne please don't cast aspersions on my mental health. Cheers,
You have misrepresented certain politicians and what they have said or done quite a bit lately. When commenters (not me) pulled you up on it you have not acknowledged your mistake. I suspect it is not deliberate but you are not reading articles carefully enough. That's not a "mental health problem". That's carelessness.
And btw, "losing the plot" dose not mean a person has mental heath problems – not in my neck of the woods anyway. It is a saying denoting someone has got something wrong.
Creating dramatics for the sake of it which has been prevalent on both sides over this issue is no help to anyone.
"Creating dramatics for the sake of it which has been prevalent on both sides over this issue is no help to anyone."
But Anne, it has NOT been prevalent on both sides. So, your assumptive assertion is in itself a problem.
Feel free to give me any examples of what you claim Anne. I am usually pretty open to admitting if I have made a mistake
https://twitter.com/Sorelle_Arduino/status/1639988067900481536?s=20
Testimony from those present:
https://youtu.be/JMVGYCyZ1sk?t=378
It would only take an identity of the puncher for an assault charge (whatever provoked the women to move on him only required withdrawal or pushing her away).
Eye-roll emoticon requested.
Factual statements do not require emoticons.
The factual statement I wanted to make is best replaced with an emoticon.
Like this:
Wait a month (and if no charges have been laid) ask police
Do you know who threw the punch, and if not, what efforts were made to find out?
Thank God for workarounds!
Take your pick:
The Ambassador should simply say London police do exactly the same thing at the monthly Hyde Park gatherings of LWS (allow counter-protestors to kettle the gatherings and shout them down).
Also at a weekend lesbian gathering in the UK (in a hall), they were only able to leave in small groups with police help.
And inform of the facts of the Auckland event.
1. KJK had tomato juice poured on her by someone born inter-sex (who has received death threats since).
2. Her security threw a women to the ground by the rotunda (it's on KJK own video feed).
3. No blow was struck to KJK, she was however in a security team bubble pushing through crowd to get out of the rotunda area to get to a pathway out from the park.
way to minimise violence against women.
If you say so. But nothing about it is untrue – the same things occur more often in the UK than here.
I’d ask why no one has a problem with what her security team did – you saw it yourself and said nothing.
Just look at the video of KJK leaving the event. She said she feared for her life. I think it is reasonable to think she did
Sure, it's a risk to try and move through a crowd, and if the event is centred around your presence (and there is some verbal going on as well) it would be natural to have some fear.
I watched the link Weka had posted of Posies video and I agree with you that she probably was afraid. Maybe not for her life but genuinly afraid. I’m also a little surprised she was permitted to continue recording inside a Police Vehicle. Hardly being shut down. Freedom of Speech met Consequences that day.
"Freedom of Speech met Consequences that day."
So in other words, even though she didn't get to say anything – and neither did the other women – they should have known to not even try.
Well at least they know for next time.
They deserved this for being uppity.
I won't put words in your mouth, don't put them in mine. Link to where I have suggested any woman is "uppity"
Wasn't a quote. I use quote marks when I quote someone.
Rest assured, you didn't say the word "uppity".
I was extrapolating the possible interpretations of the word "Consequences" that followed your completely non-ironic use of the words "Freedom of Speech".
give me a time stamp and I'll take a look.
Generally my position on protest is that if you push the boundaries then you take the risk. Push back should be proportionate to the situation. Remember the naked woman at the parliament protests who had oiled her body so the police couldn't hold her so they grabbed her hair instead? She understood what the risks were and knew what she was doing.
Would that argument include counter-protesters kettling those gathered?
It's routine to allow kettling at UK events.
11min 20-30 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDuy2Kx2HlI
But it's not her security team, a woman is pulled back, taken to the ground and held down (this is the last seen of it).
PS – the delegation “to our ambassador in London” seems to lack cogniscance that allowing kettling is standard practice in the UK and at Albert Park there was an effort to have a separation barrier.
It's what you left out that is the minimising of violence against women.
Apart from Hyde Park yesterday, the situation in the UK has been different than Ak or Hobart, in that police have generally done their job and prevented harm being done. In Ak, the police chose to absent themselves and let things play out.
One of the consequences is that the ante is now upped. I will be completely unsurprised if we start seeing more assaults now.
Have the police made a statement about Saturday? It's been over 48 hours.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/posie-parker-juice-thrower-protester-eli-rubashkyn-gets-death-threats-and-offers-of-legal-support/BC5XO2747RHT3G6L4BGZJDPWCU/
It's what happens at Hyde Park each month. Kettling is allowed.
What did I leave out?
In the age of cell phones and videos that only happens if police ignore evidence presented (or people turn up with masks/balaclavas).
UK women I have been speaking to and listening to say that the the event at Hyde Park yesterday is different from before. eg,
https://twitter.com/Ashworth101/status/1640250941709377536
I saw video of the police walking away while the others (the LWS group surrounded by the counter-protestors) were still there.
That it was a lot smaller scale and none of the speakers had KJK's notoriety may have reduced tension.
please link.
15min 10-20seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlLYHC5-AM&t=920s
It is a regular monthly event in London. The speakers there are known in the UK.
There are always people trying to drown out the speakers, but comments made by regulars say there seemed to be an elevated feeling of threat. That continued when they left as they were followed until they went directly to the police.
The event in Albert Park had been ramped up by media misinformation and intensified by comments from our politicians and talking heads.
Glinner posted a couple of videos of police leaving the scene.
https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/1639978049436282882?s=20
Correction, the security team was not involved, it was done by civilian others (motives unclear).
A woman who requires security because of credible death threats, should be grateful for tomato juice you say? No concern about the visceral fear of having someone pour an unknown substance on your head, after receiving yet another death threat under your hotel room door? Or the risk of crushing?
https://youtu.be/uxTXEy5OFBk
State, police, media and other idiots promoted, sanctioned and now excuse thuggery.
Handwave away the stench if you want, at some point it'll need to be corrected.
Correction to 2. (not her security team) and it does not belong in the list – as it was not an action by the security team hired by a British passport holder during her visit to New Zealand.
My comment was in relation to the specific's of KJK.
Your lack of interest in the inter-sex person (who poured the tomato juice) claiming she was later assaulted is noted. Your lack of notice of the woman taken to the ground and held own (video cuts at that point) or the incident where a man head locks a woman … etc
One wonders if the WSPU were accused of being anti-man or anti-patriarchy for seeking their rights.
Winston Churchill of course noted his fear of the Commons public spaces being accessed by a woman back in 1919
I suspect he was fearful of debating with women as political equals.
https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/20_winston_churchill_biog_final.pdf
Chilling, and brilliantly written article. Thanks for posting.
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Clearly the British anti-trans activist wasn’t closed down because she’s a woman. Her speech was halted by people power because she’s promoting hatred towards an at risk group who’re tired of suffering the type of abuse and stigmatisation that Parker and her fanatics are promoting.
Posie Parker knows this, but instead of letting that understanding govern her actions, she attempted to manipulate the narrative again by playing the victim card."
https://thejackalman.blogspot.com/2023/03/posie-parker-arsehole-of-week.html
Yeah, because bloke's reckons on blogs are always right.
Did you see the statement from the Australian Jewish Association repudiating the lies told about the "Nazis" at the Australian protest.? The lies and smears that have been repeated all week.
Did you see the horrible anti-women placards and posters carried by the so called peaceful demonstrators. The ones with the threats of sexual violence?
Do you need a reminder?
Is this bit "she's promoting hatred towards an at risk group who’re tired of suffering the type of abuse and stigmatisation" true, do you think?
No.
No
Can you provide a link that proves us wrong?
No.
The people promoting hatred on Saturday were the transactivists, aided and abetted by four senior Green Party people, who were "utterly fervent in their opposition to women at the weekend, calling on the public to rise up against the Let Women Speak group, and then applauding the abuse and intimidation that rained down on them."
No, no, no: three reckons do not make a yes, but I reckon Robert is right!
Let's make it four then. No, promoting women's rights and creating an event to Let women speak in public is not promoting hatred
I said the above because the very few trans people I know have all said they had felt threatened by ordinary people at some stage in their lives.
Meaning what? One night, walking home by myself, I felt threatened by 2 men rapidly approaching me who I thought were chasing me. I ran to stay ahead of them. It turns out they were just running to cross the road ahead of traffic. Though I still stayed well ahead of them making my way home just in case.
Promoting extreme rhetoric onto her in order to have her written off in the media probably isn't lessening the threat they feel either. Its the kind of thing which results in a counter protester getting so worked up they feel the need to punch a 70 year old woman for approaching them.
I have felt threatened by ordinary people all through my life, not only threatened but beaten up and raped .They were able to do it because as a woman I'm smaller and vulnerable.
Yep I've felt threatened plenty of times in my life and it is never an enjoyable experience although I can look after myself so am sure for me it wasn't as scary as it would have been for your friends. Aggressive, threatening, violent behavior is never acceptable except in a small number of very distinct scenarios.
And one things for certain, Robert is definitely right!
How do these three sentences link up?
"Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker … is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”,"
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-03-2023/how-nz-fringe-groups-latched-on-to-the-posie-parker-controversy
"Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker, and is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”,Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker, and is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”," is a quote from Stuff.
Can you point to a quote she has made?
Besides does 'exclusionary radical' equate with 'violent'? Was she being violent or fomenting violence at this rally?
Robert she's not an anti trans activist, she's a women's rights activist.
How is she "promoting hatred" against an at risk group? Are you suggesting that letting women speak is promoting hatred? Please give an example.
Am assuming you've reported a hate incident to the police in regards to her "promoting hatred"? If not then I have to assume that is because you don't really believe what you are saying.
Any and all "abuse" both physical and verbal was coming from the TRA's as far as I can tell
She is? She isn't? See above. And below 🙂
“Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker … is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”,”
“https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-03-2023/how-nz-fringe-groups-latched-on-to-the-posie-parker-controversy”
Deciding to own the slur thrown at you by trans activists doesn't make you anti trans
Just look at the video of KJK leaving the event. She said she feared for her life. I think it is reasonable to think she did.
"People power"……ffs. Ferel, hateful mob, mostly men stop free speech.
It is outrageous to say a women who was attacked that way is accused of playing the victim card. Shame on you
I have not said that, Anker, nor do I believe that.
What is your response to this statement (I've posted it 3 times now 🙂
“Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who self-identifies as Posie Parker … is conducting a tour beneath the slogan “2023 is the year of the TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist]”,”
“https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-03-2023/how-nz-fringe-groups-latched-on-to-the-posie-parker-controversy”
I know you are relying elsewhere for your information.
However, many accused of being TERFs are familiar with this version of the acronym:
TERF – Tired of Explaining Reality to Fuckwits.
I know it's the first one to come to mind when I have the term thrown my way.
If I have misquoted you Robert, I apologise.
I haven't seen her use that slogan. It is one that is used against us. We do want to have the ability to exclude men who identify as female from our change rooms, sporting competitions etc.
I follow a community forum where it's common for outrageous claims to be made about politicians, suggesting that what they are not reported as saying means they believe something.
A made up example, but fitting the pattern. The PM makes a speech somewhere about crime. There's media reporting on the event which does not mention anything about ram raids. All people know is what's in the press. Next day I read the PM is soft on ram raids, has said nothing about ram raids and doesn't care about them.
Or he is in the news over a couple of weeks and hasn't specifically addressed poverty, or he may have but the comments haven't been in the columns, over the radio waves on our tvs. That translates to "Hipkins is doing nothing about poverty. He doesn't care about it."(That's a specific one to Jacinda Ardern.)
The way around it? Maybe the PM and Ministers can have a little prologue before they any speech listing all the things they're for and against so the bases are covered. Then the debate will get to the order of mentioning topics in that list or the number of words used in the references. The cost of living being mentioned after health resources would mean he doesn't care about the cost of living and minimises its impact on families. This is the world we live in.
I watched a re-run of today's post cabinet press conference this evening and Hipkins was bombarded with questions over the week-end's events. In reply to one journalist he made clear his abhorrence of violence and mentioned a couple of examples that occurred in Auckland. But those comments don't appear to have been reported in the media (thus far) so now he is facing charges of not caring about violence against women including from one or two commenters on this site.
The PM should have front footed it with the Auckland situation. I listened and it seemed he only mentioned it as a result of questions.
I thought that was poor. Front footing says
a) you are not ignoring it
b) it is top of mind
c) gives you the ability to guide or set the parameters
I got the impression had the questions not been asked he would not have made any comment. very poor. What he was condemning was garbled. He should have made a holding comment on Saturday afternoon. Saying resorting to violence is bad is or should be uncontroversial or do the trans community have a special pass.
All the while those of us watched as overseas NGOs swung into action drafting letters to their liaison minsters to send on to NZ, people were organising how to boycott NZ produce & women's groups were contacting women's groups here in NZ to offer support, prominent women in the UK made appraoches to the NZ govt. We could all see this in real time.
It came to Monday and we have no comment/condemnation from NZ Government.
28 March 2023 at 10:51 am
That's unfair Shanreagh.
I tune in most Mondays to the post cabinet press conference and there is a format which is always followed. The PM spends around 15 minutes on household matters such as recent activities involving himself and his ministers followed by a rundown of what is coming up over the next week or so. They rarely comment on anything else unless something earth shattering occurs that is relevant to government business. Ardern's shock resignation for example.
Then they open up for questions and that is when the nitty gritty is discussed. Hipkins would have known he would be closely questioned on the events of the week-end even though it had nothing to do with the government. He responded clearly, fairly and in tune with the facts and not with some of the fiction that has been espoused – on both sides to be fair.
The Herald’s latest:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pm-chris-hipkins-act-party-leader-david-seymour-dsicuss-green-party-co-leader-marama-davidsons-white-cis-men-comments-with-mike-hosking/3T4NYNHU6FE6NJLEWACRFN26VQ/
This is how a democracy dies.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/mass-israel-protests-after-prime-minister-netanyahu-fires-defence-minister/XRW3NOBSF5CIVNHPHHXCTOHFFI/
One wonders how DPF and CS will spin this one.
This is a democracy's last stand scenario.
Netanyahu is being told by his fascist right wing partners to kill off resistance to authoritarian government or they withdraw from the government (one built around legislation to prevent legal moves against him).
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-65085001
Oy vey.
A National Guard under command of Jewish Power boss Itamar ben Gvir.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-735580
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
Talk about ignoring the white elephant on the pathway.
MD was being interviewed by the wife of Mr white mans Zealandia Alps.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/03/prime-minister-chris-hipkins-says-marama-davidson-s-white-cis-men-comments-weren-t-appropriate.html
Oh, that explains it. Marama Davidson is only responsible for her own words when replying to certain people. Otherwise, it's all their fault.
(Using /sarc, but it’s just not the same.)
What MD said was with sacrasm .
But sure indigenous people need to be careful about what they say to a white social media blog video journalist. Because MSM will hold them accountable? (sarcasm emoji insert).
In your own linked article, Marama Davidson doesn't claim sarcasm:
"Davidson now says she made that comment while in a state of shock".
Nice of you to do it for her. I'll just post the video and let people make up their own minds.
https://twitter.com/LouiseChadwic/status/1639450559043506181?s=20
She is definitely, 100% not suffering from shock in that video as anyone who knows what shock looks like will tell you.
In my opinion she is just a despicable, nasty, person who has now shown her true racist colors and who is now an enabler and apologist for abuse and physical violence carried out by men against woman.
I will never vote for The Greens while she (and a few others) are running the party.
Disgraceful.
PS – I don't think people will have yet realized (because many of them will be sitting in their bubble with their like minded friends celebrating) how much damage this weekend may have done to support for the Green Party and how much it may have turned or started to turn many ordinary people against the whole gender ideology and trans movements. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
This is an incredible response.
Hipkins has not condemned the violence at the protest. ie said it was regrettable that women who gathered were not able to start their events, barricades were breached and people injured by others. Apologise to JKM & those injured.
He is still pussy footing. The thugs will be emboldened to use violence against any women's rights meetings.
I could write a statement for him tomorrow that would sheet home responsibility, apologise for the violence, say it is not the way we do things around here, promise to do better by referring issue to ???? HR Commissioner, Independent Police Conduct Authority and I guarantee he would come out looking caring about all sectors.
And I was not even a speech writer when i worked in Parlt but worked with ours on speeches for he portfolios.
But I feel there is not the political will.
Women are just not worth it to Hipkins and the wider Labour Party.
This leaves the IPCA and also the United Nations.
Reem Alsalem (Jordan) is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, since August 2021.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-violence-against-women#:~:text=Reem%20Alsalem%20(Jordan)%20is%20the,and%20consequences%2C%20since%20August%202021.
Yes, there is a problem if people cannot safely hold gatherings.
Thus he could say – "that after what happened at Albert Park there will be some review of arrangements for such events. And guidelines provided for councils, organisers and police."
Really? The demographics of the supporters of left and right wing parties are what they are.
The HRC and the UN positions are not in line with the KJK narrative …
https://www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity/about-lgbti-people-and-human-rights
Focus should be on safety
Events
Refuges
Prisons
Women’s only places/gatherings
Young people (best health support practice)
Sports
(as per self ID risk).
I think you have missed the point. I referred to the work that the Special Rapporteur in the UN working on violence against women:
This does not have anything to do with trans rights per se. It's focus is on violence against women. My suggestion was nothing to do with KJM. My suggestion was that it be used to investigate the cause of the violence against women at Albert Park especially if there is no condemnation from the PM or investigation by NZ Police.
Again you have missed my point in this:
'Women are just not worth it to Hipkins and the wider Labour Party.'
I was not talking about demographics and voting numbers per se. I was talking about which policies are what we (as analysts or adivsors) used to call 'sexy' and which ones are not.
At the moment 'trans' anything are 'sexy' (maybe as a result of concessions sought by the Greens in the coalition agreement to No debate)
Women issues are not 'sexy', they are probably regarded as passe. Equal pay for jobs of equal value is difficult work, progressions are difficult, sexism & ageism & ableism, all likely to affect women are on the rise according to anecdote. The response of many is crudely 'look we gave you the vote a 100 years ago, what more do you want?"
When you have sexy policies that capture the political wing it is difficult for:
1 politicians, when they are whipped to make any headway if they do not go along with the said policy
and
2 politicians find it difficult to get traction for issues that are not considered sexy/appealing…..women's issues seems to be one of these. We have an invisible Minister working in a portfolio that is not seen as go ahead and you are unlikely to make your mark advocating for women. This is my perception not that I agree with it.
He had.
On the matter of the police response
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/03/chris-hipkins-condemns-physical-violence-at-protest-after-posie-parker-doused-in-red-juice.html
That shows the problem. Hipkins is in a totally no win situation. He needs you to write his statements for him, not just on this issue but on others I suppose. When that happens you can say he is saying the right things.