Posts by Lucy Telfar Barnard

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  • Hard News: Maoriland Calling,

    If anyone is interested in sets of prints of some of William Hodges' paintings, United World Colleges New Zealand has a limited run available - "The Monument of Easter Island"; "Landing at Tanna"; "Waterfall in Dusky Bay"; and "A View of Otaheiti (with Resolution and Adventure at anchor in Matavai Bay)". Cost? Bah, can't remember, but if anyone is interested in them, they should drop a line to info@nz.uwc.org. All proceeds go to United World Colleges New Zealand, which administers scholarships to New Zealand students to attend UWCs (and on that, if you know any over-achieving 16-18 year olds who want to make the world a better place and would like to go to an international school overseas for two years, send 'em our way - email selection.nz@nc.uwc.net for this year's application forms. We are still accepting applications, regardless of what the website says.)

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 585 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Of course it's about the book,

    Thanks.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 585 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Of course it's about the book,

    I'm trying to remember what things look like on email headers, but...

    When I look at the beginning of that email image, I see to: Don Brash (Don's email address...) and to: John Key ("John Key"). To me that would either imply that Ron's written to John before (because he's got his email address in his address book) or that John's email address never got typed in, so maybe he didn't see it after all, or that it means something about whose copy (Don's or John's) this was. Or maybe it means nothing much at all.

    Anyone else who actually knows anything about this care to comment?

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 585 posts Report Reply

  • Island Life: Citizen Key,

    I'm a bit tired of this 'state house boy made good' meme...

    Jeez, why does everyone read it as "**state house** boy made good"? It's clearly "**Christchurch** ... boy made good".

    Because we all automatically assume Christchurch people will grow up to be parochial red-necks, don't we? Which John Key clearly isn't, since he's properly worked and lived overseas.

    For example, I can't see him, on the campaign trail, saying "Oh, you're from (insert country of choice between Turkey and Japan) - one of my sons was born in Singapore you know..."

    Okay, maybe that just disproves 'parochial'. The 'red-neck', on the other hand, with that voting record ... hmmm...

    (No, no, of course they're not all like that. One of my best friends grew up in Christchurch.)

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 585 posts Report Reply

  • OnPoint: Fisking for Asians,

    Yes, the Human Rights Act does prohibit inciting racial hatred, but in practice the prohibition always has to be balanced against the Bill of Rights Act right to freedom of speech, which means actual prosecutions are few and far between. (I can't actually think of any. Anyone else?)

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 585 posts Report Reply

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