You never know when the next cocktail party will appear on the calendar or when your better half without warning invites home a baker’s dozen of business colleagues or clients for drinks with a need for something a little more classy than salty chips and peanuts from the supermarket.
David McCooey Deakin University David McCooey is a prize-winning poet, critic, and editor. His latest book of poems, Star Struck, was recently published by UWA Publishing. His debut poetry collection, Blister Pack (2005) won the Mary Gilmore Award and was shortlisted for four other major national literary awards. Review: Paul
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Viv Forbes Information Opinion Viv Forbes was raised on a dairy farm in Queensland with hand milking, candles, kerosene lamps, a wood stove and copper, a Kalgoorlie evaporative cooler and Clydesdale draft horses. His father had used a bullock team to haul logs from the Mt Lindsay forest to the
Reuben Peter Chapple The partnership fallacy came about because the 1984 Labour Government placed references to “the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi” into key legislation that it passed. These references had first appeared in Section 6 of the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, but lay unnoticed and dormant until
Michael Swanson University of Otago Michael Swanson is currently a PhD Student at the University of Otago researching the role of the Opposition in New Zealand’s political system. He has previously completed a Master of International Studies (with a dissertation looking at Australian and New Zealand Defence relations with
At first sight, the announcement last week of the cancellation next year of the ceremonies usually held at and around the Treaty grounds at Waitangi on 6 February could be shrugged off as just another casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the eternal optimist in me sees it as a
Okay, after that third instalment, I suspect we would all like a good dose of mind-bleach. But, blinding ourselves to the insidiousness of the Long March is not the way to save ourselves from it. Still, after dealing with the creepiness of the commie kiddy-fiddlers, let’s deal with a,
As elaborated in the previous post in this series, the Long March through the Institutions has long had a special focus on taking over the educational institutions. This is partly because, like many academics, the Long March left are fundamentally averse to leaving school, but particularly because seizing control of
In the first part of this series, we looked at how, confronted with the obvious failure of Marxist economics and the general disdain for communist revolution amongst the proletariat, the Marxists retooled their ideologies over the middle 20th century. The Long March through the Institutions was born. 50 years later,
As the West spirals ever further into the abyss of Wokeness and Cultural Marxism, one of the most common phrases one hears is, “Where did this all come from?” Forget history, the present is a nightmare from which ordinary people are trying to awake, with no clue as to how
The old saying that “the camera never lies” was always debatable: photographic trickery has been around since at least 1839, when Hippolyte Bayard faked a photo of his supposedly drowned corpse. The advent of Photoshop and other software has made the truthfulness of the photographic image even more suspect. But
Outcast Information Opinion Friday the 3rd of December 2021 should go down as the darkest day in New Zealand’s history. A day where discrimination and segregation reminiscent of the days of the Third Reich officially began in our country. On Friday, I and many other hard working, tax paying
Dark Jester Information Opinion It should be obvious by now that New Zealand society is slowly becoming segregated between vaccinated and unvaccinated. Businesses will be forced to refuse customers if they don’t show proof of vaccination. Airlines will not take unvaccinated passengers. Schools will not allow unvaxxed students. For
As I posted recently, the emergence of WWI-era Alpine bunkers previously buried under ice raises an awkward question or two. If, as the Climate Cult insist, glaciers in retreat now is because of human-induced global warming, what caused them to obviously retreat far enough for soldiers to dig bunkers over
