By elevating symbolism over academic outcomes, NZ’s education system has drifted from its core mission – teaching children well. The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840, was never intended to dictate school governance or curriculum, making its use in education policy historically misplaced.
In a land of milk and honey, no one should need to bid for butter.
There’s a perfect word for this system, a system that reaches into every corner of your existence, from your speech to how you spend your private life, and justifies itself all as being ‘for your own good’.
Residents and engineers know the real cause is man-made neglect of infrastructure, yet this inconvenient truth is largely ignored.
We’re halfway out of the ditch Labour dug. Keep the faith. Back the coalition. One people, one flag and one bloody awesome country.
Bloody Sunday is a cautionary tale of unrestrained violence, reckless military conditioning and deliberate obfuscation. Families were left in limbo, history partially hidden and a soldier who knew no restraint – unhinged, sadistic, and lethal – became a symbol of institutional failure.
Through collecting and curating exquisite garments, Hore transformed his trauma into beauty.
To speak truth where it is forbidden is an act of moral service, not malice.
He is a man ruined by his own failings, yes, but also by the machinery of privilege that shaped him, protected him and ultimately discarded him when he became too embarrassing to save. In that sense, his tragedy is not just his own.
Many researchers, health professionals and journalists, dependent on pharmaceutical funding or institutional support, have every incentive to avoid pursuing or amplifying questions that could threaten their livelihoods.
New Zealand repealed its blasphemy law in 2019. Section 123 of the Crimes Act 1961 – “blasphemous libel” was formally removed by parliament. Yet here we are, 60 years later, watching an unelected regulatory body attempt to recreate the same offence through the back door.
Trying to communicate with a multi-headed te reo gabbling chook.
Many might think it would seem at least naïve not to at least raise the question as to whether the damage consistently inflicted upon a formerly far more stable and happy country has been at least partly because of politicians who may possibly be oikophobic, prioritising their own personal agenda.
