Kind of a testament to how wrong she was.

Must have been a bit weird for the judge just sitting there with this woman and hearing all these grievances and then being the one to break it to her that this is not how life works!

Maori themselves play a huge part in that though - the gains here have always been hard-fought-for by Maori.

Obviously there are historical differences like method of assimilation and resulting population proportion, and political biculturalism (which wouldn’t work in Canadian context due to Francophones, Metis and “salad” multiculturalism, etc). But at every step of the way, Maori have been at the forefront.

For that reason, it’s important that people like @[email protected] continue to call out Govt when it is wrong. Because that’s how progress happens. Complacency about not being even worse shouldn’t stand in the way of continuing to strive for something better, especially in the face of what feels like a massive swerve backwards by our current govt.

I think it’s okay to have more than one article about a topic?

Tbf your post was an RNZ article by a different journalist. I read both of them in a spirit of “wtf there must be more to this” and this one has slightly different detail about their previous holiday and him being a no-show at the hearing.

“Just Stop The Madness”.

Happened when my phone was on 5% so no internet for me for a couple of days. I’d forgotten how much I like candlelight.

That url title cracked me up.

I think you’re right, in a small market like NZ this will quickly become price fixing. On the other hand NZ doesn’t really seem to protect itself from this kind of carry on all that vigorously.

Serves me right for not reading the news more regularly ha ha.

Amazing sky! I’ve never sailed on a lake, is it much different in feel to the sea?

Oh thank god, I seriously misinterpreted that headline.

Will definitely try it. I love loquats and their fruit:seed ratio is also not great.

Camouflaged!

Beautiful! Really captures the feeling.

Yes unusually big yield, I hope it’s not because there’s something wrong with it! I must get under it with some candle wax and look for borer.

I love giraffes!! Awesome photo too! I haven’t been that close to them in years!

Will have to try it sometime!

I remember being shown how to eat the inside of thistles once. As a kid I ate a lot of random stuff from trees etc but was always too impatient to peel thistles by myself.

Yes that does sound disproportionate.

I did not know that! I’ve seen birds eating it but I was always a bit chicken because of the colour.

Tangelos! It doesn’t belong to me but it’s where I live. The tree is about 40 years old, we eat it and some of the windfall gets repurposed as bird feed.

Here’s mine:

Yes austerity is sort of entrenching our downturns for longer. I guess it’s not so much that we’re losing people, as who we are losing.