Christine Rankin appeared on Sunday last night. Janet McIntyre read a statement from Margo McAuley’s sister. Christine Rankin read her own. What possesses Christine Rankin to keep trying to justify her life to the nation? She should just be quiet. The more appropriate course of action would have been to accept the Family Commission position […]
I couldn’t understand why I was getting an extraordinary number of hits on my Margo McAuley blog post until I saw the Herald on Sunday. A mainstream newspaper has finally revealed what many of us in Wellington have known for months – that Margo McAuley tragically took her own life in part because of her […]
The Sunday Star Times reported on May 3 that John Key and the National Government are following through on overhauling the sporting sector. This includes cutting budgets at SPARC, the agency that gave us Push Play and Mission On. The jury is out on Mission On and whether it has provided impetus to young people […]
Just watched on my ‘copy’ of the TV3 6 o’clock news the protest that took place in the grounds of Parliament today lunchtime. Protesters were concerned about Section 92a of the Copyright Act. This section says if a user is accused of downloading material (such as video’s and music) that they don’t hold the rights […]
Last week our house was wracked with ill health – the week before I returned to work. So bad was it that I was tempted to ask the powers that be to change my compulsory leave to ‘sick leave’. Anyway, as a result of all this illness Sugar dragged herself to the after hours doctor. […]
In the two years since Palestine have been sending rockets (6000+) over the wall into Israel they have killed 4 people. In the three days since Israel launched attacks on Palestine they have killed 400.