Education for a future requires the Humanities and the Arts
Posted: September 25, 2016 Filed under: Letters | Tags: Brexit, carbon, Dominion Post, Donald Trump, education, exploitation, Grant Robertson, humanities, inequality, micro technology, refugee crisis, robot, Seventies, Sixties, war Leave a commentThe Editor, The Dominion Post, Wellington
19 September, 2016
Dear Editor:
The article on the future of work as examined in the DomPost of 3 Sept (Life in the Machine Age) does at the end express that the reality of the coming “Age” is not primarily about machines after all, as Grant Robertson explains, “It’s collaboration, creativity, dealing with complex problems and understanding ethical dimensions”. Read the rest of this entry »
European Union: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Treaty needs actions
Posted: September 21, 2016 Filed under: Letters | Tags: climate change, climate disruption, European Union, John Key, National government, UNFCCC, United Nations Leave a commentThe Editor, The Herald, Auckland
19 September, 2016
Dear Editor:
The resident European Heads of Mission in New Zealand have issued a statement about the need to add actions to the negotiated promises of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Of course this action is long overdue but how will this play in New Zealand? Read the rest of this entry »
Wellington needs more bus routes, not tinkering and dropping routes
Posted: September 18, 2016 Filed under: Letters | Tags: car cult, climate disruption, Darran Ponter, environment, fear, light rail, local government, Paul Bruce, politics, public transport, sustainability, transportation, WCC, Wellington, Wellington Regional Council, Wellington Regional Transport Plan Leave a commentThe Editor, The Wellingtonian, Wellington
9 September, 2016
Dear Editor:
Former Regional Counsellor Daran Ponter along with current counsellor Paul Bruce took it upon themselves, maybe three years ago, to inform city residents of the proposed changes to bus routes, mostly as a warning it seemed. (“Backlash. . .”, 1 Sept.) Read the rest of this entry »
Letter to Women’s Refuge on the new family violence program.
Posted: September 13, 2016 Filed under: Other, responses | Tags: family violence, fear, National government, politics, sensible sentencing trust, Women's Refuge Leave a commentMayor Wade-Brown is unable to accept the desperation in front of her.
Posted: September 8, 2016 Filed under: Letters | Tags: Airport Corporation, airport runway, carbon, climate disruption, democracy, environment, fear, green washing, Greens, Jo Coughlan, Mayor Wade-Brown, politics, Wellington Leave a commentThe Editor, The Dominion Post, Wellington
05 September, 2016
Dear Editor:
The reason why Mayor Wade-Brown (Dom Post Weekend, 3 Sept) can so shallowly misrepresent mayoral candidate Jo Coughlan’s “four lanes to the planes” campaign slogan is that she refuses to respect the open desperation evident in it. Read the rest of this entry »
Reply to Gordon Campbell on Trump /Nieto meeting – Scoop
Posted: September 1, 2016 Filed under: Other, responses | Tags: Andrew Little, Donald Trump, gordon campbell, John Key, Labour Party, National government, Nieto Leave a commentTrump and Nieto may both gain from the notoriety of Trump’s visit to Mexico; often bad publicity is better than no publicity at all. But it wouldn’t work for Andrew Little and the Labour Party because the fundamental appeal of the National Government, and especially of a nobody like John Key, is that they are fundamentally hiding from reality which is just what a desperate New Zealand electorate wants for now.
