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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Labour Government s light rail backtrack deserves praise. Now it must deliver 3 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read Transport Minister Michael Wood. Photo / Mark Mitchell OPINION: Hold off on ridiculing the Government for scratching their light rail plans and starting again. This decision deserves praise. It takes a certain amount of courage to admit you ve got it wrong and need to go back to the drawing board, especially when you know it ll open you up to ridicule. And that s exactly what s happened. Critics are having a field day. That s the Government s own fault. Light rail is a broken promise. The first promise Jacinda Ardern made as Labour leader in 2017 was that light rail would be up and running by 2021. Far from that, there isn t even a shovel in the ground in 2021. Light rail is a symbol - a bit like KiwiBuild but not quite as bad - of the Sixth Labour Government s inability to deliver. ....
9 Wins for Gender Equality in 2020 Worth Celebrating A look back at moments that empowered women and girls around the world amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Achieving gender equality is key to ending extreme poverty. When women have equal rights to men, societies are healthier, wealthier, and better educated. You can join us and take action on this issue . If there’s one United Nations Global Goal that 2020 proved we need double-down on to achieve, it’s Goal 5 gender equality. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it was apparent that the international community was off track to empower all girls and women by 2030. Estimates suggested that it might take another 100 years to meet this target, and 2020 only further exposed the cracks in our society and shined a light on the need to protect the world’s most vulnerable communities. ....
So the point of this article is what? NZers of European extraction are wicked and should feel bad? Conservatives are by definition wicked and racist? “That the prejudices of Middle New Zealand appear to be in rude good health this Christmas season is further attested to by the Labour Government’s ever-so-careful stepping away from its earlier commitment to criminalising hate speech.” I don’t follow. Ardern and Little appear to have every intention of further restricting freedom of speech, in ways that would have done nothing to prevent the Christchurch terrorist attacks. Is the author unaware that the Human Rights Act already protects New Zealanders against those who would incite people to harm others (or themselves)? What sort of further restrictions does the author think we need? Criminalization of any criticism or mockery of anyone who is deemed to be “of colour”? ....