Am laughing and crying and feeling frustrated with Nicola Willis and kids and rebates and filling forms to get rebates that are mostly small amounts.  She is a mother. Has she forgotten about the  time and effort and extra effort needed to look after children?Read More →

Sexuality, male, female. It concerns you and me and when we do it in private it is of no concern to anyone else . If we both consent and do not harm others or to use an old cliche – do not scare the horses, leave us alone. Word difference  it how you will, there are so many similarities in life. We work in jobs , play sport, sing and dance.We read, listen to politicians, who fret about holes in the road, orange cones and can find $9 billion overnight but don’t want to feed hungry children. We have a P.M.  who needs training inRead More →

Pat’s career includes many years of teaching, radio broadcasting, film making, lecturing in broadcast journalism at The University of the South Pacific and working in Development Aid projects in the South Pacific region and Africa. He worked for over twenty years for Radio NZ in News, Radio Documentary Unit and was the first Manager of The Radio NZ Continuing Education Unit (CONTED). He has NZ qualifications in teaching, literature and drama. These skills were put to use in his Development Aid work with short and long term projects media education in Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and South Sudan.Read More →