Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: A true commitment https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318454#post318454 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318454#post318454 Conflict resolution should so be an NCEA subject !

Excellent idea.

]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:34:46 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318448#post318448 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318448#post318448 If we want attitudinal change we need to start, at the beginning, with kids.

Adults can still screw it up tho' (while the kids are growing up) while thinking they are sound sooooo clever and intelligent and give the negatives to their words 'nary a thought.
Like this Ahole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:21:03 +1200 Brent Jackson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318447#post318447 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318447#post318447 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:18:56 +1200 Isabel Hitchings https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318420#post318420 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318420#post318420 If we want attitudinal change we need to start, at the beginning, with kids.

We need to stop treating bullies as a terrifying other and own that any of us, on a bad day, can engage in bullying behaviour if we don't watch ourselves. I've seen kids stunned when you…

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:03:22 +1200 TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318419#post318419 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318419#post318419 certainly nowhere near the same level of funding that goes to dealing with the costs of violence

Yes, why is it so hard to put money up front where it needs to be, rather than for the ambulances at the bottom the cliff? If you don't care about disadvantaged lives…

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:03:07 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318412#post318412 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318412#post318412 To quote William Blake
“Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?”
Blake pushed the envelope with insects.

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:58:34 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318411#post318411 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318411#post318411 When dealing with an issue of deeply-rooted culture, seemingly small and insignificant actions are where the change starts.
Changing peoples minds is no insignificant thing, When this government sees people as mere troublesome insects. I apologise to the insect world. To quote William Blake
"Am not I
A fly like…

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:52:15 +1200 A S https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318399#post318399 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318399#post318399 The solution here does not lie in legislative change alone. It lies in the way each individual conducts themselves. And that’s exactly where this government needs to start.

So much this.

The inter-generational entrenchment of family violence is horrifying. As is the literature indicating that in over 60% of cases…

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:50:53 +1200 Brent Jackson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318398#post318398 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318398#post318398 We need to stop talking about violence against women as if it can be “solved” by tweaking an Act or giving the maximum penalty to an offender. The way men offend against women is inextricably tied to the way society perceives women, and when we simply increase the penalty for… ]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:28:38 +1200 Euan Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318396#post318396 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318396#post318396 Wouldn’t it be nice if such an event triggered an automatic support system, both social and financial. Would be happy to have my taxes do something like that.

Great idea. Support that doesn't leave you in penury. Can’t see National going for it though. Would love to be proved wrong.

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 13:27:32 +1200 TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318393#post318393 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318393#post318393 Yup, adding new "offenses" that are already offenses is just doing something for the sake of being seen to be doing something. In a fairly retrograde fashion.

Also, I have to say I find "male assaults female" retrograde in itself. I certainly get the historical basis, but I wish there…

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:31:55 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318392#post318392 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318392#post318392 Having your partner jailed, losing his income? Which becomes losing your home and struggling to feed your kids?

Wouldn't it be nice if such an event triggered an automatic support system, both social and financial. Would be happy to have my taxes do something like that.

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:07:57 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318391#post318391 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318391#post318391 Domestic abuse is bullying. The motivations and the methods are the same. The pervasive effect on the victim is the same.

Aye. I was just thinking out loud that perhaps one approach is to address the general bullying that pervades our society. The assumption that if I can make someone…

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:03:35 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318390#post318390 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318390#post318390 doesn’t some of this come under bullying as an accepted part of our culture. Abuse of power, the abuse of political power, the abuse of physical power to achieve your goal.

Domestic abuse is bullying. The motivations and the methods are the same. The pervasive effect on the victim is…

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:53:03 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318387#post318387 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318387#post318387 Sorry for a half-formed thought but doesn't some of this come under bullying as an accepted part of our culture. Abuse of power, the abuse of political power, the abuse of physical power to achieve your goal.

We see it in our business structures. We see it in our sporting…

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:50:10 +1200 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318386#post318386 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318386#post318386 Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:21:40 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318385#post318385 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-a-true-commitment/?p=318385#post318385 Discussion from blog post.

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