Posts by Hilary Stace
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Meanwhile Akld Council has just voted against any mention of the Living Wage. Unlike Wellington where people like the Living Wage Council and want to work for it.
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Just did an online submission on this bill. Intrigued to see the M word there on the right hand side column.
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Not sure whether this will post properly - shared several times on Facebook today. Very clever mock up of front page of NZ Herald featuring proposed new mayor.
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If the PR person commentating on the Panel is the partner of the person who gave paid PR advice to the Mayor's political opponent a couple of elections ago, should that conflict have been declared? Or is it not a conflict at all? It is all getting very murky in Auckland.
Jim Mora just said we need to relearn what ethics are. I'm all for a national conversation on ethics, especially in politics and business.
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Several pro-Brown comments read out on Morning Report just now. Segue from Russell's announcement of Word of the Year before which was the previous item.
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The Minister of Broadcasting was there - he read Tariana's speech without any kia oras.
I found that slightly dominatrix manner of Judith Collins to NZ On Air a bit weird. Do you think that is how she acts in cabinet?
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Hard News: Awards and Rewards, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yay for Tony!
By the way you don't have to get up at 4 am to train in the Special Olympics. They are much more sensible than that. And it was great week at the Special Olympics National Games in Dunedin a couple of weeks ago (and, incidentally, my swimmer son came home with a gold and a bronze medal and some ribbons). 1200 athletes, 46 teams from across NZ, numerous sports, 700 volunteers to run the National Games and hundreds of coaches, managers and supporters keep the whole thing going across NZ. Roll on the 2017 National Games in Wellington.The Attitude awards were the following week and that was a great event too. I had a little hand in the nomination of Robyn Hunt who won the supreme award and has been a disability activist for decades, is a former journalist and now runs a business promoting accessible IT. Her video clip was filmed at the wonderful Tirohia Mai exhibition about the history of women in NZ at the National Library (sadly finished now). Was an impressive bunch of section winners. I think even Judith Collins (who presented the Supreme award as ACC Minister) was enlightened. Lovely to see you there, Russell. What a finely handsome son you have, and so pleased to hear he is on the way in the employment thing.
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I like this piece from the Guardian about how Mandela would have laughed at the rightwing fawning over him.
Regarding children and memories, I took my 4 month old on the marches, until it got too dangerous after the police baton charge at Molesworth Street. She studied the tour at secondary school as something historical and about other people. But it was attending the 30 year anniversary event in Wellington, and hearing the stories of bravery, courage and superb organisation, that made her proud of her and her family’s contribution.
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Pattrick has written about it here in the Herald.
A colleague remembers wagging school from Wellington Girls to go and see Mandela at parliament too.
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He came to Wellington in the mid 1990s. Pattrick Smellie was then head of the Press Gallery and had organised the big speaking event. Pattrick's son Max was a small baby and I babysat for probably the first time they had been out since Max was born. (He was fine, of course).
My son was at Thorndon School and when they heard that Mandela was having a bit of a walkabout outside parliament the whole school walked down to say hello. Some of those older teachers were real fangirls and boys, and Mandela was lovely to the children. I was working nearby in the Dept of Internal Affairs and watched the event out of the window.