Holy smoke!
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Fudge, I forgot to complete it! I got halfway through and started having an existential crisis about my identity ha ha and thought I'll come back later and fix this.
Be careful what you wish for. Mine was when half my hometown started telling my mother they saw me stuffing my face with chips in the background of a One News report when I was meant to be in class.
I did it when I was in my 20s a few times and I hated it. Tasted suspiciously like vomit.
However I did not give up there. The grown up spider/icecream soda involves tonic water, french vanilla icecream, crushed strawberries and a dash of gin, imo.
Kind of a testament to how wrong she was.
Must have been a bit weird for the judge just sitting there with this woman and hearing all these grievances and then being the one to break it to her that this is not how life works!
Maori themselves play a huge part in that though - the gains here have always been hard-fought-for by Maori.
Obviously there are historical differences like method of assimilation and resulting population proportion, and political biculturalism (which wouldn't work in Canadian context due to Francophones, Metis and "salad" multiculturalism, etc). But at every step of the way, Maori have been at the forefront.
For that reason, it's important that people like @HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world continue to call out Govt when it is wrong. Because that's how progress happens. Complacency about not being even worse shouldn't stand in the way of continuing to strive for something better, especially in the face of what feels like a massive swerve backwards by our current govt.
I think it's okay to have more than one article about a topic?
Tbf your post was an RNZ article by a different journalist. I read both of them in a spirit of "wtf there must be more to this" and this one has slightly different detail about their previous holiday and him being a no-show at the hearing.
"Just Stop The Madness".
Happened when my phone was on 5% so no internet for me for a couple of days. I'd forgotten how much I like candlelight.
That url title cracked me up.
I think you're right, in a small market like NZ this will quickly become price fixing. On the other hand NZ doesn't really seem to protect itself from this kind of carry on all that vigorously.
Serves me right for not reading the news more regularly ha ha.
Seem to have left the co payment of Community Services cards for now.