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Being Māori & feeling the threat of LA: Te Aitanga a Pōkai Whenua 6

We left Flagstaff, AZ, yesterday for the long drive across Arizona and California to Los Angeles. Seven hours driving, two rest stops, and one more dramatic stop for a broken awning and we hit the traffic on the I-15 and I-10 towards San Bernadino. I had thought I had driven in busy traffic before, but I… Read More Being Māori & feeling the threat of LA: Te Aitanga a Pōkai Whenua 6

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The Navajo Nation: Te Aitanga a Pōkai Whenua 4

Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé, Changing Woman, was the daughter of First Man and First Woman. She herself was the mother of the twin sons of Jóhonaaʼéí, the sun. When she encountered Jóhonaaʼéí again after her twin sons had defeated the monsters that beset the lands, he wanted her to join him permanently. She outlined the terms on which she would… Read More The Navajo Nation: Te Aitanga a Pōkai Whenua 4

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Train whistle blowing, makes a sleepy noise: Kiwirail and our climate future

I caught the Northern Explorer from Palmerston North to Hamilton. As I waited on the platform, I looked at the tracks below me. At one point where two tracks joined, someone had folornly spraypainted a health and safety hazard: a bolt that was halfway out of its hole, opposite another bolt that had completely fallen out,… Read More Train whistle blowing, makes a sleepy noise: Kiwirail and our climate future

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Show me the money: how our Treaty settlements aren’t helping

In my community, I know that many of our Māori whānau are struggling. In my street, many of my neighbours are struggling. Many of my neighbours have over crowded homes. Most often in our street a son or a daughter and their tamariki get evicted from their current house and end up coming to live with their parents… Read More Show me the money: how our Treaty settlements aren’t helping

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It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

The Guardian reported on 14 March that applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center and others have had a research article accepted for publication in Ecological Economics based on their work with a new cross-disciplinary ‘Human And Nature DYnamical’ (HANDY) model. You can read it yourself, but here’s the short version. Briefly, the HANDY model looks… Read More It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

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The Weakest Link: Studylink, student loans and work-oriented qualifications

I’m in the last paper of my Post-Graduate Diploma in Theology through the University of Otago. It’s been a long road, as I have worked full-time the majority of the time that I have studied towards the qualification, and also last year Otago’s papers dropped from 30 points a paper to 20 points a paper, meaning that… Read More The Weakest Link: Studylink, student loans and work-oriented qualifications

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