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In This Issue:
Te Kaiwhakarongo Aotearoa
Editor
Kirsty Cameron
Chief Subeditor
Geoff Cumming
Managing Editor
Ruth Brown
Art Director
Derek Ward
Books Editor
Mark Broatch
Entertainment & Arts Editor
Russell Baillie
Digital Editor
Dionne Christian
Content Producer
Louise Barnes
Subeditors
Richard Betts, Patrice Gaffaney, Bevan Rapson
Senior Designer
Richard Kingsford
Editorial contact listener@aremedia.co.nz
Contributors this issue:
Russell Brown, Donna Chisholm, Michael Cooper, Peter Grace, David Harvey, David Herkt, Michele Hewitson, Bernard Lagan, Leah McFall, Danyl McLauchlan, Thomas McLean, Veronika Meduna, Atakohu Middleton, Nicky Pellegrino, Graham Reid, Alex Scott, Maiki Sherman, Chris Slane, Sarah Watt, Marc Wilson, Simon Wilson
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Sally Eagle
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Stuart Dick
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Sarah Henry
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Melissa Walsh
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Claire Chisholm
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Te reanga whakapono nui
Ekore e wareware i a au te kōrero a ōku mātua kēkē mō te wā rātou e taiohi ana, ka tonoa atu ai e tō rātou pāpā ki te kaikuti makawe. E ai ki ōku pāpā, kāore te kaikuti i whakaae kia kutia ō rātou makawe i te mea he Māori rātou. Nō te hokinga atu ki te kāinga ka puku te rae o tōku koroua Pākehā, nā, ka hoki tōtika atu me āna tama Māori, ka tohutohu ai ki te kaikuti kia mahia tana mahi. Nō rātou ka haere ki te whare kiriata, ko taua āhua anō rā – ka rāhuitia te Māori ki tōna anō wāhi noho, ko te Pākehā ki ngā tūru pai katoa o te whare. Ko Pukekohe tērā i te puku o te rautau rua…
The generation who believed
I’ll never forget the story my uncles would tell of when they were younger and their father sent them to the barber shop. My uncles would say that the barber refused to cut their hair because they were Māori. When they returned home, my Pākehā grandfather was beside himself and marched his Māori boys back there, insisting that the barber do his job. When they went to the cinema it was the same story, Māori were segregated to their own seating area, while Pākehā got the best seats in the house. That was Pukekohe in the mid-20th century and my parents and grandparents were the generations of the great urban migration.
When I was born, my parents were living in Ōtara on the main drag of Bairds Rd. My parents…
Discriminatory practices
At a time when we are heading for an “old-dominant” population, as emeritus professor Paul Spoonley described it (“Flown the coop”, September 12), it is extraordinary that the level of child poverty is not only tolerated but increasing.
The In-Work Tax Credit (INWTC), a child-related payment designed to assist with the cost of raising children, is worth $147 a week for up to three children and increases by $15 each for families with four or more children.
This financial support is denied the poorest families because their parents are beneficiaries or on a part benefit. Based on the source of parental income, this is shameful discrimination and has saved successive governments billions. For years, Child Poverty Action Group has recommended extending the IWTC to all low-income families. It is not…
“Quote Marks”
“Don’t worry, I’m not coming to dig your land up, I’m doing that in the South Island.” – Resources Minister Shane Jones to a public meeting in Gisborne
“I think it’s extremely damaging and divisive that public meetings become an opportunity for loud, empty voices to shout and scream.” – Shane Jones commenting on his reception at the meeting
“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.” – Gloria Steinem, who died on September 2, aged 92.
“Her activism was rooted in optimism, and that’s a moral choice. And she made it every day.” – Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, commenting on Steinem’s death
“He’s perfectly happy having the snooze on the beach here, and he will go when he’s good and…
10 Quick Questions
1. Where would you encounter the Birkenhead drill?
❑ Sports field
❑ Ship
❑ Battlefield
❑ Martial arts
2. What year did the world-famous Dunedin Study start?
❑ 1955
❑ 1968
❑ 1972
❑ 1977
3. By plane, which is further?
❑ Auckland to Sydney
❑ New York to Miami
4. What element are diamonds made of?
❑ Boron
❑ Calcium
❑ Silicon
❑ Carbon
5. The Multinational Force and Observers, MFO, oversees a peace treaty between which two countries?
❑ Egypt and Israel
❑ Iran and Iraq
❑ China and India
❑ Pakistan and India
6. The sandstone monolith Uluru lies in which part of Australia?
❑ Northern Territory
❑ Queensland
❑ Western Australia
❑ South Australia
7. What is the opera that Julia Roberts enjoys in the film…
Bright Lines
For Competition No 160, we asked for a modern proverb about Prince Harry and Meghan’s return to the UK.
FINALISTS:
Prodigal princes may have to dine on humble pie. ‒ Chris Greenwood, Motueka
This lady is for turning ‒ Patricia Bishop, Hamilton
The Sussexes between a rock and a hard palace. ‒ Joanne Buchanan, Lower Hutt
Megxit in haste, return at leisure. ‒ Paul Kelly, Palmerston North
A journey of a thousand miles requires a private jet. ‒ Ann Love, Nelson
WINNER:
Where there’s a Will there may not be a way. ‒ Louise Spicer, Whangarei
For the next Bright Lines challenge, we have the Limerick Competition. Please write a limerick in the traditional style on election billboards.
Don’t forget to include your address with entries.
TO ENTER:
Send your…
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Lo, the recovery is come. Probably. Somewhat. Rejoice and be exceeding glad. In a recent credit report on our economy, ratings agency Moody’s was pessimistically optimistic, predicting real economic growth, strengthening in 2027, while warning “elevated inflation and renewed monetary tightening will constrain household spending and business investment in the near term”.
Next week’s GDP data will likely show an economy that barely grew, or went backwards, in the June quarter – but it could have been a lot worse, and things were looking good before the oil shock. We’re enjoying an export boom, tourism is up and businesses are starting to invest. House prices are in decline but new consents are rising rapidly. Rents are flat or falling in the major centres. New Zealand is figuring out how to…
The immigration bonfire
A quarter of a century after the infamous Tampa affair – when Australia dispatched special forces to intercept a Norwegian freighter carrying 433 asylum seekers – its government is again set on proving how tough it can be on migration. Or, at least, appearing so.
Many New Zealanders will recall the August 2001 saga because then prime minister Helen Clark took in an initial 131 (and later a further 77) of the 433 asylum seekers aboard the freighter, which had plucked them from a sinking fishing boat. All were blocked from entering Australia by prime minister John Howard.
The Tampa was a defining moment for Australia’s migration policies. It led to the use of the Navy to turn back asylum-seeker boats and banishment of those who managed to enter Australian…
Surrendering to stupidity
Winter isn’t what it used to be. Just one winter season this century has produced temperatures below the long-term average. The one from which we have just emerged was the third-warmest on record, behind 2021 and 2022. The latter was also New Zealand’s wettest winter and preceded the catastrophic Auckland floods of January 2023, when a month’s worth of rain fell in a few hours, and Cyclone Gabrielle that February, which caused an estimated $14.5 billion in damage, making it the most costly cyclone ever in the Southern Hemisphere.
The country has this year been spared events of that scale, but according to Civil Defence there have been 25 states of emergency declared, all weather-related. One every 10 days, at the time of writing.
According to data published by Infometrics,…
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