Emily Writes about the sad reality of #Aotearoa#NewZealand losing its courage to stand up for what is right.

That courage, that spirit of justice, is nowhere to be found when it comes to #Israel ’s brutal genocide and ethnic cleansing of #Palestinians.

Our reputation is in tatters, and we can never claim to be a country that stands up for what is right, regardless of what the #US thinks, if we don’t act immediately.

#NZPol#Gaza

https://www.emilywrites.co.nz/what-happened-to-our-country/?ref=emily-writes-weekly-newsletter

Emily Writes about the sad reality of #Aotearoa#NewZealand losing its courage to stand up for what is right.

That courage, that spirit of justice, is nowhere to be found when it comes to #Israel ’s brutal genocide and ethnic cleansing of #Palestinians.

Our reputation is in tatters, and we can never claim to be a country that stands up for what is right, regardless of what the #US thinks, if we don’t act immediately.

#NZPol#Gaza

https://www.emilywrites.co.nz/what-happened-to-our-country/?ref=emily-writes-weekly-newsletter

If Labour had won the last election, Dunedin Hospital would be well into construction instead of remaining an empty building site. However I take issue with this line from Glenn McConnell.

"The $1.88 billion hospital was previously expected to open in 2029, but its cost was set to reach $3b."

That $3b figure was invented by Bishop during a presser, and the actual cost at the time was around $2.2b. Sloppy journalism allows National's bigger lies to become fact.

However, Labour has let the cooker coalition ram through untold bad legislation with very little pushback. Hipkins' tactic of hiding in a cupboard somewhere may improve his ratings, but a largely invisible opposition doesn't give voters much hope.

Kieran McAnulty for Labour leader!

@Salty

#KieranMcAnulty#NZPol

"It actually made a seventh - to buy rail-enabled Interislander ferries but the Government has already done that."

Ah, point of order, Stuff, the government hasn't already done that. They cancelled the contracts the Labour government already signed, and have only promised to buy new ones. Any contract they do sign will likely happen in the year we would have received the first of Labour's boats. #nzpol

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360802861/labour-wont-commit-much-these-are-six-promises-it-has-made-opposition

Imagine being called out for failing to sufficiently protect endangered species by *the Trump administration*. 😬

It's like if Snoop Dogg told you that he's concerned you have a cannabis issue and might want to do something about it.

Stop Luxon's .

On the weekend I met a white South African man from Durban who has been living in NZ for the last 10 years, I enjoyed talking about my experiences working in Cape Town in 1996 just post the '95 NZ RWC loss to SA and the general atmosphere with new SA president Nelson Mandela.

During our conversation I mentioned my surprise about the number of young white people I'd met who were quite fluent in local indigenous African languages.

I had become friendly with a Xhosa man who worked as a local barman. One day a white SA man came into the bar and we began chatting, mainly about All Blacks & Springboks as that was a guaranteed conversation starter in SA. Surprisingly this white guy turns to the barman and asks him a question in the Xhosa language and they begin conversing in Xhosa. I was dumbfounded, I asked the white guy how he knew Xhosa to which he replied Xhosa was my nanny's language.

The SA man I met last weekend told me the same about himself being fluent in Zulu, that was the language of his nanny.

While I understand the ugly racist politics behind why both these men had had African nannies growing up and their respective nannies being unable to speak English as were only permitted, under apartheid, to speak in their native tongue or Afrikaans the irony of NZ's ugly govt's fear of young NZers being exposed to te reo (Māori language) wasn't lost on me nor on my SA friend from Durban who said he couldn't understand why this #NZPol govt is so backward when it came to promoting te reo and bilingualism in #NewZealand.

I find this Te Māngai Pāho report on NZers attitude to te reo has restored my confidence that this white supremacist NZ govt doesn't represent the majority of NZers.

Whakawhetai ki a koe.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/571186/data-shows-exciting-shift-in-kiwis-attitudes-to-te-reo-maori

The ODT story includes details of which way each councillor voted - I’m taking note so I don’t accidentally rank any anti-cycleway councillors in the upcoming elections. Mind you, you can probably guess who they were if you know anything about Ōtepoti local politics.

#CycleLanes#NZPol

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/wheels-come-dunedin-cycleway-radich-swings-vote

On the weekend I met a white South African man from Durban who has been living in NZ for the last 10 years, I enjoyed talking about my experiences working in Cape Town in 1996 just post the '95 NZ RWC loss to SA and the general atmosphere with new SA president Nelson Mandela.

During our conversation I mentioned my surprise about the number of young white people I'd met who were quite fluent in local indigenous African languages.

I had become friendly with a Xhosa man who worked as a local barman. One day a white SA man came into the bar and we began chatting, mainly about All Blacks & Springboks as that was a guaranteed conversation starter in SA. Surprisingly this white guy turns to the barman and asks him a question in the Xhosa language and they begin conversing in Xhosa. I was dumbfounded, I asked the white guy how he knew Xhosa to which he replied Xhosa was my nanny's language.

The SA man I met last weekend told me the same about himself being fluent in Zulu, that was the language of his nanny.

While I understand the ugly racist politics behind why both these men had had African nannies growing up and their respective nannies being unable to speak English as were only permitted, under apartheid, to speak in their native tongue or Afrikaans the irony of NZ's ugly govt's fear of young NZers being exposed to te reo (Māori language) wasn't lost on me nor on my SA friend from Durban who said he couldn't understand why this #NZPol govt is so backward when it came to promoting te reo and bilingualism in #NewZealand.

I find this Te Māngai Pāho report on NZers attitude to te reo has restored my confidence that this white supremacist NZ govt doesn't represent the majority of NZers.

Whakawhetai ki a koe.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/571186/data-shows-exciting-shift-in-kiwis-attitudes-to-te-reo-maori

The ODT story includes details of which way each councillor voted - I’m taking note so I don’t accidentally rank any anti-cycleway councillors in the upcoming elections. Mind you, you can probably guess who they were if you know anything about Ōtepoti local politics.

#CycleLanes#NZPol

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/wheels-come-dunedin-cycleway-radich-swings-vote