Submission to the Social Services and Community Committee on the Integrity Sport and Recreation Bill by Ani O’Brien
Women built women’s sport ourselves from the ground up. Our sport is not the Government’s to give away.
Women built women’s sport ourselves from the ground up. Our sport is not the Government’s to give away.
Unfortunately, Stats NZ’s confused definitions mean that census results relating to gender will be difficult to interpret. This is poor practice, and Stats NZ should be asked to do better.
What the West is struggling is a crisis of values and a crisis of Truth.
Gordon and I used to lie some afternoons on one of the lawns round campus. We’d talk, and drink coffee, and that was all. What a disappointment!
Fans are mugs and idealists all at once – we want to believe the best, the impossible- yet in doing so we are often taken for a ride by the business of the ‘team’.
As long as I could remember, I had a thought that the right hat would transform my life.
Māori today often fulfils the role that Latin would have played for our Pākehā forefathers. It is, in short, a ceremonial language. And, perhaps, a way of signalling class.
I understand why people fear getting involved. But what I don’t understand is why we are ignoring the problem of domestic violence as if it will simply go away.
https://plainsight.nz/domestic-violence-turning-a-blind-eye-isnt-going-to-help/
As a culture, we need to collectively address this dangerous corruption of a term that, for the descendants of many New Zealanders, from Europe, Africa and indeed around the world, meant what the word was always intended to mean: the conscious and systemic destruction of their people.