Yes, unpredictable. It's quite possible that progressive change is proposed that I object to deeply. That hasn't happened to me yet, but I can't rule it out, because…

I should be more precise. This pertains to any individual quantity. There could be an infinite quantity of things to be equalized. Are there? If there are, is this infinity mainly caused by subdivision…

Do we? We might laugh at where they drew the line, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just because they got it wrong. They also had ideas about the limits about how fast humans can travel that were laughable then, but…

But they thought that in the 1600s, and the 1700s, and the 1800s, and the 1900s.

And we laugh at how foolish they were.

It's partly, as Craig says, about recognising just how hard the fight was for those people who…

Yes, there must be an upper limit to improving equality. It could be approached as an asymptote, so that more and…

It's also too damn easy to forget the rights and freedoms we currently enjoy didn't happen through the intercession of magic elves — something to think about on Women's Suffrage Day…

It's a scary thought, isn't it? At least it's one we're capable of having. Even if we can't see where the changes will one day so "obviously" need to be, we…

We happened to be married at the time but I distinctly remember thinking "so married people don't default on loans?"

In the interests of not pissing off the person who could stop us being able to buy a house…

I am a marriage celebrant and also run a social agency, Big Buddy, matching male mentors with fatherless boys in life long father figure relationships.
In the ten years I have doing this work I…

because they are over some of her

Let alone the days when a bank made you get married before it would grant a mortgage.

And does anyone want revert to the bad old good old days where a landlord could perfectly legally refuse to rent their property to a couple without…

Indeed. If they got married at all. Few are the people who thought it was wise to get into a permanent live-in-with-sex, with someone they had neither…

I am writing this submission in support of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill.

The Government Administration Committee is surely going…

Most of my friends who have gotten married did so after living together for many years, and co-incidentally had kids real soon afterwards. A church can pretend that these couples are…

Yup – I was part of the oral evidence on the Young Nats submission to the ERA. Don't think we changed Sue Bradford's mind one micron, but it was most endearing…

Well yes. Must confess to a touch of laziness, knowing that Trevor is more readily identified by the general public as being willing to engage when necessary.

That's often a very good idea, beca... I'll stop right there.

I wrote mine in a bit of a hurry. I hinted at the argument that in my ideal world "marriage" could be deconstructed and extended…

Not actually Trevor’s job. Ruth Dyson is the committee chair and 1) she’s had more than enough experience in the value of having a touch of…

One of young women I picked tobacco with, in Mot' in the 1960s, was beaten up by her very butch partner – and much more severely beaten up her father to whom she went for help...I dont know what…

I prefer to think of them as oversomes.

Yes! Exactly those. ;-)

Overalls like... these?

When I did undergrad philosophy there was a lot of talk of “this is the argument that wears the trousers”, a sexist and also rather peculiar metaphor! One of my friends suggested “the argument that wears the overalls” might be an improvement.

I don’t really know how…

Kia Kaha! to all, as discussed earlier on Capture thread, sharing helps.

Oliver's post at TLG is quite reassuring on this as well:

Being heard in person can be an extremely daunting experience. The committee knows that, and will bend…

Please, don't be scared off from the idea of making a submission in person – or even by videolink if the committee does not travel to Christchurch (and I hope it does.)

My experience…