To Sanctuary at 2 : Jacinda certainly deserves to sleep easy, and be freed from the ever-present need for bodyguards, a situation I've not ever seen alluded to.
To PLA : at 1.1.2 Steve Walker a most commendable guy!.....proven hard worker, caring and doesn't blow his own trumpet.
Aaron Hawkins' quiet competence in promoting forward-thinking measures needs the strongest possible support from prospective Council members and voters to elect them who would NOT be " rubbed up the wrong way".
Mike, your assertion " we should be arguing for a stop to the war" is my fervent wish. As so many times in recent decades I have spoken out and been an activist for this seemingly endless cause. Indeed I felt ill at our sending other than humanitarian aid ...
My reference to 'terrorists and traitors' was in connection with that being Muldoon's constant cry about activists on any/all of the urgent problems of those years. I do know I was on the list, but won't divulge more because was leaked by person who knew ...
and to cheer you on this rather cold day: Think most hilarious memory not in disdain this time, but in admiration of them and their mentors, was the group from an Auckland girls' school marching up Queen St to rallying area carrying large banner ' DONT ...
To Anne and PLA : Maybe the reason these things not known now is precisely that it certainly was a frightening time for many both in public service and others, fear of losing job, need to use passwords in certain situations, and knowing one's name listed, ...
To Anne at 10; Join the club....I still wonder whether that stuff's been discarded and yes , my boss was rung that should I be absent particular day's anti-tour event, that my pay would be docked. Rest of staff shocked and had worked out how to cover me, ...
To Anne at 10 : Don't forget the many listed as 'terrorists and 'traitors' , about which most people will know nothing.
Matariki was certainly not manufactured out of nothing! At least fifty years ago teaching in a southern city school, I had pupils whose Maori parents took them fishing for Matariki, asking for homework so that children didn't miss out. The story was ...
To Dennis Frank at 2 : Surely you have seen and heard repeated advice from Chris Hipkins , other M.P.'s and epidemiologists that wearing of masks, distancing, good hygiene practice are advised, meaning that mature commonsense should prevail.
Sounds like Utopia! and in big scheme of things not a costly change, the greatest necessary change being a fast embracing of such creative energy. One factor I've long thought sensible is the use of ferries across the Otago harbour as operated in my ...
To Felix at 5.2 : not sure who you're replying to...if me, I certainly didn't say public broadcasting should report only the pro-government line. I maintain that critical thinking was a very necessary component in the education of the young.
To Pat Scott @ 5 : I agree with you wholeheartedly. Indeed I only watch 'news' on Radio NZ or TV these days to assess the situation to which you refer. Sadly, the culture seems now to be the norm requiring the learning of critical thinking to feature ...
To Reality at 3 : No-one could have expressed Ashley Bloomfield's qualities and success better. Thank you. His sincere genuine nature was there for all to see, as was the occasional weariness in recent times. Consider too the disgusting flak that goes on ...
to Dennis at 2.1.3.1 : I find your comment strange. I have long had such a position as the phrase expresses. Raised in a home and culture closely connected with the forming of the first Labour government and it's values of social security and later having ...
to Ad at 2.1.1.1.1.......Paulo Friere was well ahead of his time. I valued his book immensely from publication and am now prompted to research his life thereafter.
Your last sentence Jenny should become universal daily mantra, so obvious,understandable and succinct. I continue my day smiling at it.
An activist of great strength indeed.
Shocked me that anyone would produce such vile.....must out into garden to immerse in beautiful sights and sounds.
Perceptive observation at 3.1.1 Robert G
to DOS at 10.1.4.1 : I applaud the frame-of-reference on which you make your decisions. How different society would be if more worked from same. At least you can live and rest in peace with yourself. Regarding advancement, I heard my father (pressed to ...
to Maui at 3.3 : I'm bit late with this reply, but ask you to think of the children who died or suffered lifelong debility from many of them. I grieve that this historical memory is not widely remembered or known.
That cats had been affected was published from somewhere in East many months ago, probably during our first lockdown. ....and it's not a reference I kept. I wondered then about the myriad of homes where cats are well-cuddled pets.
I recall vividly the relief at knowing my family was vaccinated against polio. I know my mother felt great relief when we were vaccinated against diphtheria and tested for TB. Therefore I am thankful my older great grandchildren are double-jabbed against ...
I recall vividly the relief at knowing my family was vaccinated against polio. I know my mother felt great relief when we were vaccinated against diphtheria and tested for TB. Therefore I am thankful my older great grandchildren are double-jabbed against ...
Your comment re "Freedom of Speech " one of very few to point out the ludicrous act of one of its proponents snatching in a protest banner in Dunedin.
Yes TM, it is great that the value of marine reserves is more widely acknowledged. I remember the opposition over the early one at Leigh but the rapid flourishing of species there was patently obvious. To other posters above, I saw scallop beds being raked...
We knew main world and NZ political events well before eleven years of age because they were talked about at home,at other people's homes and at school. As well Dad had us listen to parliament at times and in wartime to shortwave propaganda from Europe to ...
I was in conversation with the doctor concerned, believe me, and I did say it was decades ago, and so if things have changed for better that is great. ( and though I thought to have edited my mis-spelling of Mururoa I obviously didn't succeed).
Some decades ago in midst of our anti-nuclear testing days I was next patient for an oncologist in Grafton after he had dealt with what he described as a planeload of cancer sufferers of French Muturoa tests, held too long in Tahiti until a 'planeful'. I ...
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