“Our challenge, then as now, is to facilitate the organic growth of a New Zealand culture, not the synthetic, deliberate choosing and mixing of elements” – Mike Grimshaw
Free speech and tertiary education in NZ Given the recent debates, disputes, and discussions concerning free speech in New Zealand universities, it’s timely to go back and examine a forgotten episode from which we might learn how – and how not – to proceed today. In a time where issues of free speech are somehow […]
“Why is there the need for a Free Speech Union if there is a Council for Civil Liberties?” – Mike Grimshaw
“…we need to ensure the family unit is more than just a traditional nuclear family and even Thatcher endorsed that” – Mike Grimshaw
“… left and right increasingly mean little in New Zealand and haven’t for decades” – Mike Grimshaw
“Our inner cities are now for those deemed ‘non-people’: those who are socio-economic zombies” – Mike Grimshaw
“… worrying, most don’t seem to care that they do not know what it is assumed they should or would know” – Mike Grimshaw
“there are no representatives from the humanities and social sciences, nor from the creative arts” – Mike Grimshaw
“If you had to leave now with a 3-year undergraduate degree in this subject, what would you do?” – Mike Grimshaw
“too many of both the left and right, of both the religious and the secular, do not want to live in a modern, liberal society” – Mike Grimshaw