Bring it back: Interesting tourists
New Zealand’s tourist department used to attract all kinds of people to our shores.
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The Spy Who Didn’t Love Me
The following text was delivered as an address at the Muslim World Forum, Aotea Centre, 23 November, 2013. The forum marked eight years of relationship building between the Office of Ethnic Affairs and New Zealand’s Muslims.
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David Cunliffe: Them’s fighting words
Disclaimer: In no way do we endorse any of the things said here. Once again it’s just us providing a platform to MPs to say what they like. David Cunliffe responds with his own tongue in cheek blog post to a post by Judith Collins.
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Lost in the Fun House
By Jonny Potts If you do anything ‘creative’, you always have these ghosts around, trying to keep you in check. You invite them into your life, trying to incorporate and escape their influence.
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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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The Edge of Reason: Kicking the Tyres
A few weeks back, I attended the Karori Normal School Gala, at which I bought a copy of the most recent VUP post-election book Kicking the Tyres: The New Zealand General Election and Electoral Referendum of 2011 edited by Jon Johansson and Stephen Levine.
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You won’t believe these top 8 things that aren’t as good as you think they are
In pop culture, and normal culture, and counter culture there are things that are almost universally loved.
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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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Russell Brand, Revolution and the “Real” world
Russell Brand is the only person who has suggested to me that the material world is an illusion. Given that he did so between service at Peter Gordon’s Dine, I was inclined to agree.
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A House of Cards
Remind me never to play poker. With a face like mine there’s no hope in hell I’d ever win – one glance and you’d know if my hand was a winner or a loser.
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Peter Dunne: It’s my party and I’ll agglomerate if I want to
United Future leader Peter Dunne writes on the perils of a two-party system and why we must cheer on our minor party friends.
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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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Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah naaah naaah naaah nah-nah!
It’s the ultimate underdog story – two renovation rookies with no experience at all up against plucky, experienced DIYers Alisa and Koan, first-rate, four-time renovators Alice and Caleb, and of course the boys – Andy the builder/farmer and Pete the plumber/every-kind-of-handyman.
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Bring it back: Floralazzling
Flowers are delightful. Wouldn’t you agree? They come in different kinds and colours or whatever. They’re splendid.
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SPORTS BALL! A review of the All Blacks vs Wallabies
So the New Zealand Rugby team, or “All Blacks” as they’re known, played the Australian rugby team. Who are known as the “Wallabies“.
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