Daily review 31/01/2023

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1. SPC 1

   31 January 2023 at 6:20 pm

   Freshwater iwi chair Rukumoana Schaafhausen said sharing decision-making with iwi Māori is not something to be concerned about.

   "We are at the frontline protecting our waterways and we have thousands of years of mātauranga [traditional knowledge] which can provide a paradigm shift in how we prepare for a climate-impacted future. Sharing the load together is not to be feared, but welcomed."

   Schaafhausen said it was a case of focusing not only on the next few weeks, but for the generations to come.

   “As these events become more common, [they will] take a greater toll on those of our whānau who are the most vulnerable,” she said.

   “We will manaaki each other, provide shelter and strength in our hardest times, and will be guided by our tikanga, as we focus on the solutions that offer the transformative change needed to combat the impacts that will affect future generations."

   https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131105675/floods-a-wakeup-call-that-three-waters-reforms-needed-says-iwi-chairs-forum

   Perhaps the government should look at a nationwide body to provide support (technical expertise) to provincial/regional councils (excluding the major centres and others who choose not to participate) that have partnership arrangements with local iwi (this to focus on improving drinking water quality, wastewater and stormwater in those areas outside of the major Pakeha settlements of the 19thC).
2. weka 2

   31 January 2023 at 6:52 pm

   and just like that the central pillar of the edifice of gender ideology crumbles.

   Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister in Scotland and leader of the SNP, championed gender self ID and pushed through the law there despite concerns. She called gender critical feminists raising those concerns bigots.

   Self-ID means that any man can say they are a woman at any time and then should be treated as such. She was told, she didn't listen.

   Now she is confronted with the problem of convicted rapists using self-ID to gain access to women's prisons, with two very high profile cases in the past week. Trans women are women, except when they are not. Finally.

   Well done this journo for asking the questions. She can't/won't answer because if she was truthful the whole thing would fall over, and she would be branded a transphobe and bigot.

   Look at the retweet, quote tweet and likes numbers. And 3.3 million views.

   Does Scotland’s First Minister believe all trans women are women?

   Scottish Gov has just implemented an effective ban on trans prisoners who’ve committed sexual & violent crimes against women being moved to a women-only prison. @itvnews pic.twitter.com/DRbvItHZ3i

   — Peter A Smith (@PeterAdamSmith) January 30, 2023
   • SPC 2.1

     31 January 2023 at 7:08 pm

     Why do women in prison deserve greater protection than others … the obvious move it to ban self ID for those who have committed crimes of violence against women. This would still allow them to go a process (as before self ID) which in their case would also include rehabilitation.
     • weka 2.1.1

       31 January 2023 at 8:08 pm

       Why do women in prison deserve greater protection than others …

       It's not a matter of greater, it's a matter of understanding the reality of biological sex. eg women and men can be raped, but only women can get pregnant. Only men rape (women can commit sexual assaults, but rape is a specifically male crime).

       All people deserve to be safe from violence, including trans women and other males. The solution here is to change how we imprison men. Prisons, especially men's prisons, are brutality personified. It doesn't have to be like that.

       the obvious move it to ban self ID for those who have committed crimes of violence against women.

       this is an argument that says we will protect women from known rapists, but we won't protect them from the men that haven't been caught, charged, tried and convicted yet. Do you know how many rapes there are that don't go to court? The solution is to have sex segregated prisons, rather than trying to solve the problems that trans women have by removing women's rights.
     • SPC 2.1.2

       31 January 2023 at 10:01 pm

       Keith Brown … justice secretary has announced a … review by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) into its transgender policy

       On Sunday, Brown announced that no transgender inmate with a history of violence against women will be moved from a men's jail to a women's jail until the review ends.

       The rule also applies to newly-convicted or remanded individuals.

       Brown said the issue was "highly emotive" and public concern is "understandable". He went on: "As the First Minister pointed out last week, we must not allow any suggestion to take root that trans women pose and inherent threat to women.

       https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,transfers-of-violent-transgender-prisoners-paused-amidst-review
       • weka 2.1.2.1

         31 January 2023 at 10:31 pm

         Brown said the issue was "highly emotive" and public concern is "understandable". He went on: "As the First Minister pointed out last week, we must not allow any suggestion to take root that trans women pose and inherent threat to women.

         Highly emotive was probably not the best choice of words when it's been women yelling about this for years.

         The threat is from males, whatever their gender identity. And yes, there is an inherent threat, that's why we have sex segregated spaces. This doesn't mean all men are dangerous. It means that women can't necessarily tell in advance which ones are.

         I don't think trans women pose any more of a threat to women than men. I'm not convinced that they pose any less and the idea that being trans removes male pattern violence isn't born out by evidence as far as I can see.
3. joe90 3

   31 January 2023 at 8:23 pm

   thread

   Conventional wisdom (including mine!) was that Jacinda standing down would be bad for Labour polling. What the polling bump proves to me: the former PM, as she did in 2019 with Chch and in 2020 with the rona, understood something that hardly anyone else understood and acted on it

   — Lew (@LewSOS) January 30, 2023
   • SPC 3.1

     31 January 2023 at 9:49 pm

     Perhaps, she was clearly in that burnt out zone that makes returning to a job something to reconsider, then

     1. there were threats to her while she was in private time mode with family

     2. a future with limited interface with public as PM, or when campaigning, because of perceived security risk

     3. noting that the global right had made her a hate figure and financed locals to agitate against her domestically

     4. an awareness that Labour might be able to promote itself as the better governance regime option 2023-2026 with new leadership (her no longer being a lightning rod for division and contention over pandemic response/social media campaign beat ups etc).

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