JD: All of Us Are Equal

Guest post on The Good Oil by JD

The challenge now is for the silent majority to stand up and display their support for proper equality in NZ.

Not being Māori myself but having married into NZ society I find the great majority of my closest relatives are. A diverse bunch, they lay claim to varying degrees of ethnicity, ranging from my partner who traces unadulterated Māori ancestry back for several generations to those at the other end of the spectrum whose claim seems based on little more than their grandmother having once passed a Māori in the street.

Simon O'Connor: Three reasons.....

The Greens chanting terrible slogans causes at lot of offence but it also provides three reasons as to why they are wrong - and hypocritical - about so many things.

We once again have Green Party leader, Chlöe Swarbrick, proudly screaming the ‘from the river to the sea …’ slogan from the steps of Parliament. You can try and dance on the head of a pin about what this suggests, but it unambiguously means the removal of all Jews from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. She proudly screams it, repeatedly, despite being told it’s meaning and implications.