Posts

The Government  has passed the first reading of  David Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Bill through Parliament. Doing it in the shadow of the Budget was a cynical move for a bill Seymour claims is about “transparent” lawmaking. The Government  has timed it to avoid scrutiny.  ACT has tried three times before before to pass a bill of this genre . This time It has already drawn widespread public opposition. Over 20,000 people submitted on the bill’s first consultation -under one percent  supported it. ACT with less than 10% of the electoral vote acts like Trump. Arrogant and narcissistic .Read More →

Mark Rylance,  the first artistic director Shakespeare’s  Globe Theatre  in London, between 1995 and 2005. suggests performers should do theatre rap productions of Shakespeare plays. He says  Shakespeare’s precise words should be less revered, and  compares the Bard’s use of language to the rappers of today. Rylance says Shakespeare should not be worshipped on an intellectual level, saying too many performers speak his lines too slowly. Instead, he said, actors should learn from a generation of young people growing up on rap music, to reconnect with the quick-speaking emotion Shakespeare originally intended. “If I have a general criticism, which is true of my Shakespeare actingRead More →

Attended it yesterday. A wide range of people there. Several thousand maybe. Hard to tell. Old. Young.  I looked at many of the banners. The protesters  were mainly concerned like me about  the insults and double dealings of the Government on the abuse of the the Treaty. And it is a Treaty that belongs to all of us. I also saw posters about issues of Health, Disability, Education and the abuse of women right to equal pay for equal work.  As a former migrant it’s sad to see  NZ slipping downhill. Luxon and Seymour  are behind  much of this chaos. Collins added to it withRead More →

Without any warning or consultation, National government  cancelled every pay equity claim covering about 180,000 low-paid workers – including nurses, teachers, midwives and care workers. Since then, they’ve been claiming it’s not a cut. The truth is they’re taking money that was going directly to increasing women’s pay to save their budget. That’s a cut and no amount of distraction can change that.Read More →

Note him. His party vote is low.Under 10%.  He believes in referendums that he hopes will bind  the country to ignoring  our relationship with Maori through the Treaty.  Is he fascist? I believe so.Read More →

We have a P.M, alas, here is the NZ choice who seems indifferent to the weak, the unlucky  in capitalism. Has he ever seen a prison or been inside.Read More →

Anti-Semite.  It pays to be one. Take me. I’m popular as I have dealt viciously with the issue. I am Prime Minister and I want to get rid of Semites and I do,  by bombing every day, schools, hospitals and kid in tents too.  Kids grow up to adults. Don’t feed the little bastards. Can be dangerous. Nazism had the words. I have my words. Hitler, Houthi, Hate. The last is a word that resonate at all times.  It gets fed every day. When I was a child myself I learned about The Trojan War which took place some distance from I live now.  TheRead More →

It is appalling that a small party ACT with around 8% of the vote is making policy and taking away equal rights for working women.   And three political parties in  power  support it and  then take it through  to law by  urgency. The Prime Minister can’t even be bothered to be in Parliament. Don’t forget the names of these “leaders” when you vote.    Read More →

Am laughing and crying and feeling frustrated with Nicola Willis and kids and rebates and filling forms to get rebates that are mostly small amounts.  She is a mother. Has she forgotten about the  time and effort and extra effort needed to look after children?Read More →

Sexuality, male, female. It concerns you and me and when we do it in private it is of no concern to anyone else . If we both consent and do not harm others or to use an old cliche – do not scare the horses, leave us alone. Word difference  it how you will, there are so many similarities in life. We work in jobs , play sport, sing and dance.We read, listen to politicians, who fret about holes in the road, orange cones and can find $9 billion overnight but don’t want to feed hungry children. We have a P.M.  who needs training inRead More →

Pat’s career includes many years of teaching, radio broadcasting, film making, lecturing in broadcast journalism at The University of the South Pacific and working in Development Aid projects in the South Pacific region and Africa. He worked for over twenty years for Radio NZ in News, Radio Documentary Unit and was the first Manager of The Radio NZ Continuing Education Unit (CONTED). He has NZ qualifications in teaching, literature and drama. These skills were put to use in his Development Aid work with short and long term projects media education in Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and South Sudan.Read More →