Clive Bibby: It is part of who l am and what this country has become

I’ve just finished reading a review on the recently released Ali Mau memoir - “No words for this.” 

It would appear to give an accurate insight into a life filled with emotional highs and lows that few of us mere mortals experience.

I find myself in two minds as to whether the prejudiced view I had of Ali’s public persona has been softened by the dramatic revelations of child abuse and public denigration that often goes with the job. Perhaps l will read the book in order to find out more.

Mike Butler: Tide turning for same-sex couples?

Fair Go presenter Alison Mau put her case for same-sex marriage, on TV ONE’s Close Up on Wednesday, by claiming that "there's a tide of feeling globally about this issue”. As a woman in a same-sex relationship wants to get married, Mau said “it's the fact that I could get married 15 years ago when I married for the first time...and suddenly I can't marry who I want to marry now. And that seems odd and silly and outdated."

Is there an actual tide of feeling, or is it that the tide of feeling involves a few luminaries (United States President Barack Obama, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, and now Mau) supporting same-sex marriage for political or other reasons?