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Jack Yan posted Rebranding the Alliance | Yesterday
[Cross-posted] This has been official for a while (or so I think—not that I ever heard what the Electoral Commission thought, but I did see it on its website). However, I wanted the party to approve the news first before sharing it with you all. The following is the overseas release which was...
Lis posted Whale Rider and the Australian Embassy | 2 days ago
I've been wanting to move to New Zealand since I was fourteen. Even though I've lived in the States for about ten years, I never got used to thinking of it as home. One day my mom brought home Whale Rider, and I was hooked. The story was good, but what really struck me was the country and...
Scotty posted The government gets more of your cash | 3 days ago
This from this morning's Eastern Cape newspaper Daily Dispatch: A QUARTER of the petrol price will be taxes and levies when May’s 55c per litre increase takes effect from midnight tonight. Tomorrow’s increase includes a 20c per litre increase in the “slate levy”, a new 1.5c “incremental...
CrowSeer posted Once Were Hobbits | 4 days ago
Last night I watched Once Were Warriors, a 1994 film which tells the story of an urban Maori family, and their problems with poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence. The opening shot is especially striking, as we’re first presented with the sort of idyllic landscape we foreigners are used to...
