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Pith & Wind -
The News
It can be instructive to check out overseas
newspapers on-line, particularly if you
find the local version of news-as-entertainment
oppressively parochial and generally unedifying
– and in Melbourne’s case mind-bogglingly
footy-centric. So why not dip into someone
else’s dirty laundry for a change
and see their take on things? Sometimes
you find that there are similar issues in
the corresponding news, like when I checked
out Christchuch’s The Press the other
day I found they had their own racist issue
on the boil, only totally unrelated to footy
- or rugby for that matter.
Apparently there’s been a ‘food
in schools’ program initiated by the
NZ government to counter the unpalatable
situation of kids arriving at school with
no fortifying breakfast under their belts.
Perhaps the Maori and Islander populations
are over-represented in the statistics,
but I don’t imagine that it’s
a problem confined to those ethnic groups.
Incidentally I believe there have been discussions
over the years on instituting a similar
program here.
Anyway, Al Nisbet, a well-known NZ cartoonist
came up with a couple of cartoons about
the move, the more contentious of them first
published by the Marlborough Express then
picked up by the Press the following day.
I’m trying to imagine it or something
like it being published here, but apart
from the relevance of the political issue
at hand, the numerous nuances of difference
in the two country’s race.. read
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Dick's
Toolbox - I beg to differ
When I was just a lad
my mother, a champion of cultural exploration
and intellectual curiosity, would take me
to see art house movie in the diminutive
and barely one dimensional city of Christchurch.
I still vaguely remember “The Visit”
with Anthony Quinn and Ingrid Bergman and
”Two Women” with Sophia Loren,
Jean-Paul Belmondo (apparently) which was
directed by Vittorio De Sica - a list that
indicates a strong feminist agenda in the
days when women only had a gender. I think
it also expressed a desire for a fraction
of contentiousness and mental stimulation
in the grey outer rim of the galaxy known
as New Zealand.
These were certainly not the films that
featured in the ‘Film Annual’
which had arrived every Christmas in our
junior years and told us what the British
film industry was going to send to the colonies
in the coming year. Such sterling fare as..
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