Posts by Bevan
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Red Peak is the business!
How do we get the flag panel to change their minds?
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to John Farrell,
That's a question of government policy, and we had a rather large referendum on that last September.
Again, it's not an either-or thing.If you think the flag is unimportant then ignore it.
If you want to have other issues addressed, then by all means advocate for those. You don't need to wait for a referendum; you can contact an MP whenever you want.It's not fair to silence those of us who care about the flag.
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to John Farrell,
Well you obviously didn't read closely enough. I said we can do more than one thing at the same time.
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I’m disappointed by the reaction of many to the proposal to change the flag.
For over twenty years I’ve been wanting to have a flag that doesn’t have the Union Jack on it, and doesn’t get confused with Australia’s.
We’re not British or Australian, so why should our flag look like theirs?A new flag isn’t something we should have pride in or have respect for – those don’t seem like NZ values – but nevertheless it should be something that is uniquely us.
People saying we should spend the money on child poverty instead. Well, of course we should, but it’s not an either-or situation. We have the money for both. And if we did fix child poverty, then there’d be yet another thing to fix next, and we’d never get around to changing the flag. It is possible to do more than one thing at the same time.
Why treat it as a protest vote against the government? It could just as easily be a different government introducing it.
If you don’t care about the flag, then don’t complain or call it a distraction, and don’t vote. Leave it to those of us who are interested (whether we are for or against change).
If you think it's a distraction from something else, then argue for that issue, not against this one.
If you don’t like the process, remember the outcome. A new flag, which is really ours.It’s a vote for a new flag – engage with it on those terms; don’t treat it as anything more than that.
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Asking the "hard" questions. Brilliant!
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Laneway is on Monday 26th, not Friday 30th.
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Back when they were Philly soul in the mid-70s, before the disco explosion, Sister Sledge did tunes like this:
Circle Of LoveAlso, I once worked as a dancing polar bear at a nightclub in Austria ...