Posts by Carol Stewart
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This is an interesting read: Justice Churchman's judgment on the BVCG vs the BWSTrust. Their case was pretty crappy.
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I'll get in behind Jacindamania. Closely followed by #metoo.
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Spooky, Izogi, I was just about to post something similar. Sue Grey is also vocally anti-vax, anti-community water fluoridation and anti-1080 use. Oh, and anti-RFEMR (ie non ionising radiation from mobile phones, mobile phone towers, wifi etc). In other words, anti-science. She promotes material produced by the Graf brothers (you can read about them in Dave Hansford's excellent book "Protecting Paradise'). As a small example of how she rolls, she recently posted a link to an article on 1080 poisoning bees, while neglecting to mention that when the article was published, in 1991, a 1080-jam bait formulation was used that was attractive to bees. This formulation was discontinued in 1995.
And yes, everything you said about the BVCG. She operates as if she were above the law. -
Hard News: News Memories 2: The Twitter thread, in reply to Gareth,
I remember being pretty freaked by the threat of nuclear annihilation as a child. That, and fears of a tsunami from White Island wiping out Opotiki. Turns out we were worrying about the wrong thing.
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Something else that should be mentioned: Whina Cooper's 1975 land march/hīkoi. Possibly one of those events where the importance is clearer when we look back on it, than it was at the time.
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Hard News: News Memories 2: The Twitter thread, in reply to Hugh Wilson,
There was the Springbok tour of course .. although it wasn't a single event, more of a rolling CF.
You're right about the disasters though. Not much at all in the 1980s. More broadly NZ had a charmed run with few large earthquake hits on urban areas all the way from 1931 Napier EQ to 22 Feb 2011. There was the Inangahua quake in 1968 when three people died - I remember it, I was a small child in Motueka and our chimney fell down. -
Hard News: Memories of the news, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
My mother says that she remembers exactly where she was and what she was doing when she heard the news about JFK.
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Hard News: Memories of the news, in reply to Josie McNaught,
The Wellington Museum down here has a terrific little visual exhibition with actual footage that is so poignant
Gaylene Preston's film renders our family to tears every single time. Even hearing the music (Albinoni's Adagio) has the same effect.
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I didn't really register the Wahine sinking, partly because I was very young and perhaps also because we didn't have a TV at home. NZHistory says:
The Wahine’s demise also marked a coming of age for television news broadcasting in New Zealand as images of the disaster were beamed into the nation’s living rooms.
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Carless days. Imagine trying to enforce such a measure now.