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First, one (1) gecko.

Exactly one day ago today, after three years teaching in the education sector, I resigned my position at a low-decile school in South Auckland.  It's a good opportunity to get the fuck out of that...

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Wading through the labradoodles to get to my driveway.

It's a nice street, but there's not much canine biodiversity - in a month, I've only seen bichons and aforementioneds. The Mt Eden/Three Kings area is covered in wealthy white women wearing...

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On child poverty in South Auckland.

This news item rang a long, strong note with me the other day. I have taught at two low-decile schools in South Auckland, and the child poverty documentary that everyone was talking about earlier this...

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"Big classes work" is a stinky thing to say.

National Standards Shock #1: Big classes work. National Standards Shock #2: Nobody in the media seems to know anything about simple statistics, and christ, it's doing my head in. Bigger classes often...

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Those crazy dole-bludgers!

Humans in New Zealand who get, say, a nice pancreatic cancer or a dose of boob cancer, and are not able to work while they're undergoing treatment and trying to beat the bastard, are currently...

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Real poverty in New Zealand?

Can the poverty skeptics please stand up? I need to say something directly into your ears while gripping them firmly, almost painfully, followed by a gentle slap on the face to make sure it got in....

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Performance pay for teachers linked to National Standards? A National disgrace.

So, schools may face "consequences" for refusing to implement National Standards? Considering the complete failure of the government to ensure any accuracy and consistency in assessment of students...

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A non-parent talks about parenting. Somewhere, kittens are slaughtered in...

When you're a woman deliberately refraining from making children, and you criticise someone else's kids' behaviour, woe betide you. Woe! It betides you! Not even worth it, bebbeh. Stab yourself five...

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Unions: more disreputable than my mum's weird little dog, or less?

My mother said today, "Thank goodness for unions. They are so necessary. Those poor people who get so abused by their employers in China, what wouldn't they give for an effective union?" She said it...

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Lies, lies, more lies: LOL! Keep up the good work.

Lol @ New Zealand's Intelligence agency. Good one. You really got us trusting your integrity, we really respect you now.  Big lol @ our pathetic prime minister, whose portfolio as minister of...

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More sex, less poverty: let's make having it off cheaper.

Free contraceptives for all women (and men)? Um, yes please!  If only because the opposite school of thought is toooo creepy when said with a simple frown:  "Women who don't want to get pregnant but...

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Get out of the kitchen and onto your streets. Oh, and don't rape people.

Ladies, get outside, in your short skirts and low cut tops, or whatever the hell else you want to wear. Go out at night. Go out alone. Walk down dark streets. Don't be afraid. That's my public service...

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Report, report, report: my mother's story.

I've been very touched (haaaa ha... sigh) by the number of people who have shared Wednesday's post about the prolific levels of sexual harassment against women (there were around 2500 views on the...

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The bogeyman is real. Beware.

While we've on the topic of, y'know, assaulting, molesting, raping and harassing half the population, I've been thinking about how this society perceives women. We're quite a rough composite culture,...

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Three sad posts, three sad posts: see how they run! See how they run!

A saggy upside down dog! Too cute. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Billy.

Preface: I have ummed and ahhed about posting this, because so many of my posts lately have been kind of intense. In the end, I decided to write about it because it is intense, and pricks on P...

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Abusers, your time has come! Rejoice.

How the New Child Protection System Works, went the title of the article in the Herald. My heart sank, because as I read, it was like the nameless author of the article had Paula Bennett straddling...

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Thank god for rape...?

Rape babies are a gift from his god, says Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock.  I would love for Mourdock to be allowed to experience this particular gift from his god. How pure and exquisite...

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Food additives

A highlight in the news today was Wendyl Nissen calling the food additive Cyclamate a "nasty bastard." Go, Wendyl! Sock it to them.  The article speaks pearl-clutchingly of the 18 food additives...

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MPs attend hateful celebration of ignorance

These two MPs, Su'a William Sio and Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, should be dumped from parliament - literally kicked out the door on their butts with their overstuffed suitcases thrown out after them,...

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