Posts by Hilary Stace
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Brickface - I really enjoyed that Christchurch innovation.
Also LOL seems to have become a mainstream word this year.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Ben Cragg and Sofie – you got there before me. It has to be Occupy. One word which has challenged the old world order this year and still has some evolving to do.
Slutwalk is also a contender.
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Capture: Christchurch: Last One Standing, in reply to Richard Grevers,
Thank you for that photo of what was once the Radiant Hall. Built, I think, by Christchurch benefactor Thomas Edmonds. It was the venue for visiting speakers in the 1930s including those who founded the School of Radiant Living, mentioned earlier in the colour thread, who advocated eating colourful food and wearing colourful clothes. Appropriate that it was also colourful.
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Enjoying these photos, which makes a pleasant change from the craziness going on around us. The significance of colour for wellbeing reminds my of the School of Radiant Living, which I researched a few years ago, and whose records are in the Beaglehole room at Victoria University's library. This 1940s-60s pre new-agey type movement for the middle classes discouraged the wearing of black clothes and promoted the eating of colourful foods, including multi-coloured salads.
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Grant Robertson has just announced (I saw it on Facebook) that he has decided to stand as deputy to Shearer. Wonder what this will mean to the race/conflict/situation?
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I think those people going on about Labour’s list being old and tired are mistaken. It was a completely new list from last election. The long term ‘front benchers’ on the list that Danyl doesn’t seem to like are Goff, King, Dyson, Mahuta and Mallard, all of whom easily won their electorates. The rest of the list are all newish first or second term MPs.
I think what happened is that at the last minute a lot of Labour voters decided to give their party vote to NZ First just to spite the right .
But this is a good chance for the left to refresh and regroup and collaborate, and work to support those NZers for whom things are about to get a whole lot worse.
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In previous elections there have been multi-party television debates on topics such as education, health, the economy etc which highlighted skills (or not) in the rest of the party apart from the leaders. Only Kathryn Ryan on NinetoNoon has attempted this, and these sessions have been quite enlightening. Pity we don't have more public broadcasting.
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Just like the woman in the paper the other day who was voting National because the other parties would cut education funding. Where do people get their ideas from?
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I wouldn't be surprised if there was another election before 2014. Things are moving quickly in the world at the moment and the problems ahead pretty major.
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Might have to keep this thread going for a few weeks, so we can think about it over Christmas. At the moment I only have time to enjoy the anticipation of summer reading.