Alphabet: it’s one of the first things we teach our children. Even before we teach them that they’re racist (if they’re white) or a victim (if they’re not), and that what they pack in their undies has nothing to do with their “gender”. “A-B-C-D, E-F-G…”, you’
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Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The proposed History curriculum is so bad that it is hard to know where to start. Indeed, in the limited time I have to write a submission, I
Hobson’s Pledge Trust We agree that the draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly political stories from our past, as a new petition on the ACT Party’s website states. The draft curriculum’s “three big ideas”
New Zealand Greens’ list MP Golriz Ghahraman sure does like to talk up the evils of slavery and colonialism. She wants statues of New Zealand’s “colonial past” removed. She also makes a big noise about supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement, whose central platform is “reparations” for slavery. But
Francis Phillips mercatornet.com Churchill & Son By Josh Ireland. 2021. 464 pages When you read of domestic conflicts on a large and violent scale, you go back to the Greeks: Agamemnon’s unhappy family and the fated House of Atreus. The Churchills inhabited a similar world, full of sound,
Trendy Health Soups Cooking has become incredibly confusing for us self-anointed experts. I can’t begin to imagine how you all cope with the avalanche of alternative and health narrative-driven confusion recipes and post-modern industrial ingredients. Once tofu was the go-to meat, fish, vegan protein alternative. Remember the days when
Roshaya Rodness University of Toronto Roshaya Rodness received their PhD from McMaster University in 2018 in the Department of English & Cultural Studies. Their research looks specifically to the history of queer film and visual culture to explore radical and promissory forms of social being that are unexpectedly revealed by
Michael McCaffrey rt.com Michael McCaffrey is a writer and cultural critic who lives in Los Angeles. He is also the host of the popular cinema podcast Looking California and Feeling Minnesota. Luke Holland’s film, which chronicles the complicity of ordinary Germans in the crimes of the Third Reich,
Paul Rubenstein aijac.org.au Paul Rubenstein is NSW chairman of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. Sydney Morning Herald and The Age – 27 May 2021 “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” So goes the catch-cry chanted by anti-Israel demonstrators around the globe over the
Manying Ip University of Auckland Manying Ip is Emeritus Professor of Asian studies at the University of Auckland. Born in 1945 in Guizhou (an interior province of Mainland China, where her parents had taken refuge after the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong), she completed her tertiary education in Hong Kong
IINZ israelinstitute.nz Tena koutou, Tena koutou, Tena koutou katoa and shalom. There’s a sense of deja vu as we gather here today. Many of us did this in 2014 and many of the messages were exactly the same. Today I’m just going to cover another point as
Susan Short Secretary democracyaction.org.nz This brief article is to remind you that the opportunity to have a say on the Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories in the New Zealand Curriculum runs out in six days’ time. Consultation closes on Monday 31 May. For those who have already made
In illuminating the lie at the core of our proposed new school ‘history’ curriculum: “It is clear that Maori did not cede their mana to the Crown, and that they signed in the belief that it would give them power to govern in partnership with the Governor” We saw that
The mainstream news views media in recent days have been making much of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern basking in the reflected glory of her newly-found French fan, President Emmanuel Macron praising her “Christchurch call” (restricting social media references to crimes such as the massacre in the Muslim mosques). The same
