Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:07 am, February 26th, 2021 - 5 comments
It seems that the Springbok tour protests in 1981 had a deep and abiding effect on David Seymour, even though he would not be born until two years later.
He was clearly affected by the experience or lack thereof and has clearly harboured a deeply felt opposition to apartheid ever since.
But regrettably his deeply felt opposition to apartheid is not matched by his understanding of what it involves. Because he has confused the ability of part of the electorate to refuse to allow meaningful representation of Maori with the gross suppression of rights based on race.
An Aucklander who spent six minutes at a store where a Covid-19 case was working had to wait nearly eight hours on the phone to get advice from Healthline.
Even if this item isn t correct in every detail it illustrates cracks in the Covid management policy widening. Are front-line workers being properly paid and rested? Are investigators really on top of their job keeping up with the urgency needed, that was shown earlier on? NZ can t afford to be complacent. Recently one student was phoned a number of times without success, and a visit to the house wasn t made. In the meantime the virus was being spread.
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Try to imagine being captured from an overloaded boat on open water and sold to a notorious Alexandria slave trader. For two young sisters, whose memory is honored in Alexandria, April 1848 marked the start of a seven month-long period of fear, abuse and uncertainty.
The stage had been set in the two decades preceding the American Civil War, when northern Virginia’s soil – depleted from a century of tobacco – caused the demand for enslaved labor to decline.
Plantation owners began to sell field hands and house servants to the Deep South, and Alexandria became one of the most infamous trailblazers in the slave trade.
Victoria University energy expert Bruce Mountain told
The Age that recent events showed brown coal generation was in trouble and the challenge for the state government was to ensure enough alternative power sources were available to replace the enormous capacity of the three Latrobe Valley stations.
âOn brown coal closure, the odds are shortening on it happening sooner rather than later,â Professor Mountain said.
âState governments need to get their skates on.
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âItâs not panic stations, but the thrust of government policy must be to bring in alternative sources quickly.â
Victoriaâs Environment Minister Lily DâAmbrosio last week launched the latest phase in the stateâs $540 million effort to reboot its electricity grid. The system was originally designed around large-scale coal stations and has struggled to accommodate all the renewables projects waiting to connect.
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