Month: January 2022

I must say I was quite shocked to note Brian Tāmaki’s claim to be Aotearoa’s first ever political prisoner and to subsequently see him welcomed at Mt Eden Correctional Facility by a bunch of his thugs performing the well known Ngāti Toa haka ‘Ka Mate’, a haka created by Te Rauparaha and banned by Ngāti […]

When I was little my Dad was deeply involved with the union movement following his return from five years on the frontline during World War II. He was a working-class boy from Port Chalmers who had grown up during the depression of the 1930’s and who could remember the violence of the Great Strike of […]

On 7 January 2015 I learned a profound truth about New Zealand media. My family and I had flown from Dublin to Paris on our way to Sweden where I had an appointment to interview a subject for my PhD. Stopping in Paris made sense to us because Paris has a Disneyland and our young […]

Posted on Facebook and re-posted by request: The NZ media really hate anyone being successful. Ardern has been at the coalface fighting for me for two years. And she’s been doing it for you too. Use any metric you like and she’s been successful. She’s a university graduate and, for the 4th year running, she’s […]

Our family made this pilgrimage to pay our respects to those who have died fighting for an Irish republic, united under one flag and free of all colonialist rule from the parliament at Westminster. Visiting these Republican graves, and in particular those of Bobby Sands and the hunger strikers, mean sufficient to us that we’ve […]

Promoters and event managers spend months, sometimes years, working with promoters and agents before finalising a contract for an artist to perform at a summer festival in Aotearoa. Organising MIQ is a factor in that process. Before you bag the MIQ system or the PM – seems it’s always her fault – it might be […]

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/28/lady-phyll-kaleidoscope-trust-britain-colonialism/?fbclid=IwAR2CRZeVVHK1-Rlzqt9XftRq6vmLkaBT0tB9-1Pra7UHIziYJdSSPBQK0rg Even today the UK leads the way in overt anti LGBT rhetoric and the most vile transphobia. In Aotearoa we hear a lot of blah blah blah about equity but below the level at which it’s easy to ‘say the right thing’, not much, if anything, changes. Just as ‘Intersectionality’ has become the buzzword […]