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Ruminations of an Old New Zealander
Friday, 31 August 2012
A Proprietary Interest
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To Name Is To Own: Now known as Trotter's Creek this little river in North Otago was originally called Te Awakakokomuka. What became...
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Thursday, 30 August 2012
More "West Wing" Than Left-Wing
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Magical Thinking: So compelling was Aaron Sorkin's script for the hit TV series The West Wing that it was easy to forget that ...
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Our Diminishing Capacity For Empathy
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A Failure Of Empathy: The casual cruelty of Barbara Sumner-Burstyn's Facebook posting about the death of Lance Corporal Jacinda Ba...
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Friday, 24 August 2012
Ghosts That Walk In The Dark
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Turbans and Kalashnikovs: The mental image most New Zealanders hold of the Taliban is of Taliban 1.0 - the religious student army tha...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012
All Equal Under The African Sun
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Sharpeville, South Africa, 21 March 1960: Sixty-nine black South Africans, protesting against Apartheid, were shot down by the white Sou...
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Friday, 17 August 2012
Unimpeachable Credentials
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And So It Begins: Co-Leader of the Maori Party, Tariana Turia, is "red-eyed" by John Ansell as part of his "Colourblind N...
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Running On Different Lines
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A Different Ethos: A page from the May 1938 issue of the New Zealand Railways Magazine . There are more ways to measure the value of an...
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