For years I have heard my wife speaking, as a nurse, complaining bitterly about the treatment of old people in retirement villages. Everywhere we witness great building schemes building new huts for old people to live in. The places make me sick. The thought of creating holding pens for old people … [Read more...]
Here’s something to smash myths in our society
Generites: usually young female Māori/Pasifika parents who are moving off/not on benefit and juggling multiple responsibilities to improve their families lives... Here is a site worth linking into: https://thegenerator.org.nz/ … [Read more...]
Garry’s Thoughts 18 May 2021
As somebody who has been in the thick of change much of my life, I have formed some pretty strong views on Institutional behaviour. In both the public and the private sectors. However, because how institutions have been run the past thirty or so years, we have ended up with significant loss of … [Read more...]
Anti War Songs
Like most people who watched Peter Jackson’s digital version of the WW 1 war films I went to bed wondering why the hell any politician would send anybody ever to war. The film was horrendously graphic. Looking at the young men heading to their deaths and hearing the voices of their fellow soldiers … [Read more...]
Let’s celebrate what amazing places libraries really are
One correspondent I really enjoy reading in the Sunday Times is Brannavan Gnanalingam. I find his comments refreshing and honest. Last weekend he wrote an article labelled “I love libraries”. Here are a couple of extracts from the article: It’s weird that libraries feel like anachronisms. … [Read more...]
Patrick O’Connor’s thoughts and challenges on the necessary follow-up needed post the Massacre in the Muslim community]
Last weekend Christchurch--Otautahi hosted the remembrance ceremony 2 years after the shocking tragedy of March 15th. 51 dead, as many injured, many present at the two Mosques not deemed "injured " but extremely distraught at what they experienced and witnessed --- is that … [Read more...]
Garry writes 16 March 2021
On Monday the 15th we will stop to remember those of our community who were murdered two years ago at the two Mosques. There has been much written and spoken about the impact of this atrocity on the affected families, the Muslim community and all of us who stood supporting them all shocked with … [Read more...]
Garry writes 23 Feb 2021
This week we are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the 2011 earthquakes. An anniversary is an excellent time to reflect on what has gone before and to consider what could be in the future In my notes this week I will focus on the price people have paid individually. Then we must consider the … [Read more...]
The Mosque Royal Commission Report
In a fantastic report David Williams has summarised the Royal Commissions writing about the gunman. It finishes with this statement: …he committed cowardly mass murder, slaughtering unarmed and defenceless people, including a three-year-old, who were praying. He maimed, wounded and crippled many … [Read more...]
Smash Palace rises again:
I would like to thank people for your support as we rebuilt Smash Palace. It has been a very trying period. Otakaro Ltd decided some years ago that they were going to build a laneway right through Smash Palace. That’s what the designers decided should happen. Fighting that took a couple of years. … [Read more...]
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