Among the raft of issues created by the coalition government that have affected me, superannuation is close to the top. Why is this so? Because the income I receive from superannuation – my entitlement to which, to quote the Prime Minister, I am ‘entitled’ – is my primary source of earnings, and since the government […]
Tag: Politics
‘Murica, the Fourth Reich
It’s impossible to know what’s going on in America at the best of times, but what I do know is that, right now, it ain’t at all good for transgender people. Or for the disabled, black people, women, refugees – anyone Trump can ‘other’ as being a DEI hire. Somehow, we’ve managed to become the […]
Te Pâti Māori
I voted for Te Pâti Māori when they first entered the Whare Pāremata and they were fresh. To add joy to my vote, I cast it at the New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo. I’ve always wanted them to do well but I lost faith in them when they opted to join John Key’s ratbag lot. […]
Lexie ‘Online’
It has to be said that I love the Internet. I have no idea how we functioned without it because it’s like GPS. With my diabolical sense of direction, I have no idea how I got anywhere before GPS but it seems I did because the facts speak for themselves, and it’s all there in […]
Waitangi Day 2024
We always commemorate actual Waitangi Day in special ways because, in Aotearoa, and in our world, every day is Waitangi Day. This year (2024) we again celebrated Waitangi Day ‘out west’ at Parr’s Park at Waitangi@Waititi, a fantastic event organised by Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust and with a cast of thousands. We took 35,000+ […]
The Boys and the Biff ~ NZ Police & ‘Serving the Crown’
This was written first in 2007 after the final aborted trial, aborted because, for the second time the arresting officer Sachin Nair failed to appear. In fact, he’d failed to do anything which included ensuring a police prosecutor was appointed to present the NZ Police case. It was a shambles and I reprint this blog […]
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