Category: Rights
Tau Henare: Culture – all the good stuff
National Party MP Tau Henare writes on what he feels Maori Culture is, and how it can help society as a whole. Once more not an endorsement (though we really like this piece):
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Rape is easy here
Trigger Warning. The world isn’t exactly crying out for more opinions on the Roast Busters from straight white cis-men. Sorry world, I’m gonna opine.
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The Edge of Reason: NZ’s Prison Rate, we’re number 6!
Al Jazeera recently aired a documentary on Maori in prisons as part of 101 East, its weekly Asian affair programme. It included the oft-repeated claim that New Zealand has “the second highest imprisonment rate in the western world”,
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On Roast Busters and Radio Live – rape isn’t a drunken oversight.
Warning: Trigger warning for rape. The following story was sent to us and for obvious reasons the writer asked to remain anonymous.
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Metiria Turei: Our own will rightly hold us to account
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei has submitted the below as a guest blog. We didn’t ask for any specific topic so it was fair game.
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It’s been a lot of fun: Why I’m worried about National
“One option is the Government says: ‘Thanks very much, it’s been a lot of fun. If you don’t want to take the offer, that’s where it’s at‘.”
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Drugs: We’re doing it wrong
New Zealand isn’t strictly speaking part of the United States’ War on Drugs, but if we had to pick a side, it would probably be theirs.
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GCSB redux
John Campbell didn’t distinguish himself last week when he finally got the chance to interview the Prime Minister about the GCSB Bill.
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Making a difference
Some people are just good people. They do their part to make the world a better part and help ease suffering. Morgue Davie has found just such a soul: Karen from makeadifference.org.nz.
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Shaming: it’s a bit crap for everyone
It’s no surprise to anyone that Twitter and Facebook are filled with vile, racist, homophobic, bigoted awfulness. Because humanity is filled with vile, racist, homophobic bigots.
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Is Richard Dawkins a dick?
So here’s my quandary. I think Richard Dawkins has a lot of good stuff to say, and I think his message is an important one
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It’s my privacy and I’ll cry if I want to
The status quo: We’ve heard a lot in the news lately about spying. Edward Snowden is a name that will be familiar to a lot of people.
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All you wanted to know about PRISM but were afraid to ask because someone might be watching (they probably are)
Much has been made in the last half week of an intensely invasive programme run by America’s National Security Agency (NSA) called PRISM.
Read MoreThe F-Word
So last time I talked about the f-word I looked at how I think feminism is failing. One way I am measuring this is that the great majority of women don’t want to call themselves feminist any more because it seems unnecessarily difficult – both in reputation and in practise.
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Been spending most my life living in a bigot’s paradox
There’s that old cliche, where the racist old person starts talking. And they’re usually old. When you get to that old stage you find that the racism permeates both genders
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Where’s the bacon?
In the last year the gender gap increased from 12.85 per cent to 14.18 per cent to the biggest it has been in a decade.
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