Our cup runneth In today's Herora (NZ Herald, November 22), Bruce Cotterill reported that our money comes from agriculture and tourism and that one of those sectors is currently smashed and will take years to recover… How will taking the America's Cup regatta somewhere other than Aotearoa New Zealand help our tourism sector? Could the America's Cup team please think about a picture bigger than just themselves and potentially be heroes before they start? Heather McGuire, Tūākau. Surely the functioning of the family unit is fundamental to our society and our mental health, which would also be improved if we were able to meet for worship. After watching countless "briefings", I don't seem to have heard any mention of when this can now take place. Remember the bubbles? Have I missed something? Last year, I seem to remember the first easing of the lockdown was to allow some family reconnection. Calling all dissenting voices are misinformed haters and whingers is the poorest way to deflect deserved criticisms and an age-old way to lose an election. The Government, its ministers and its dwindling number of supporters need to have a long hard look at their recent performance before telling people to be kind. New Zealand is one of the few countries in the world where thousands of citizens are still locked out of their country due to an outdated MIQ strategy. Other developed countries have long reached the high vaccination rates and also have rapid antigen testing widely available. The arrival of Delta led to the belated vaccine supply and vaccination drive that should have happened six months prior. While the majority would agree the Government's early pandemic response was excellent, its preparation for Delta and its long term Covid strategy is sadly inadequate. Roger J Douglas, Cambridge.ĭwindling support I refer to the letter by Christine Hart (NZ Herald, November 22). Thank you Christine Hart, you have spoken for us all. We are not fooled, nor are we fooled by the badly written and irrelevant placards being brandished about. She also gives voice to the very real concerns that the silent majority have about attacks on our hard-working prime minister and to the lies and bile that a minority continue to vomit forth, both publicly and on the internet.
She encompasses the facts of the Covid battle, and the largely successful hard work being done by our Government. Hear, hear Your correspondent, Christine Hart (NZ Herald, November 22), is to be congratulated on her timely and erudite letter. Thank goodness this new "pedagogy of discomfort" is finally coming to the fore in education. The balance of power must be shifted from one-sided Pākehā control of knowledge to Māori and multicultural knowledge and understandings which throw light upon other and multiple truths and wisdoms. New Zealand governments seem to studiously avoid listening to and acting upon the advice of critical knowledgeable groups such as Child Poverty Action which offer economic strategies to remedy complex structural social inequalities. For far too long we have had an apoliticised, uncritical, sanitised school curriculum where "control" of the knowledge within official "grand narratives" has been paramount.
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