Posts by Mrs Skin
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Should no-one be allowed to provide the Minister for Immigration with relevant information with which to make the decision?
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they are not yet taken as seriously as those that prevent discrimination based on race or gender.
Yeah. But we're working on it :)
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What seems to have been lost in the outrage this week is that homophobia does not exist in Jamaica because Dancehall stars incite it in their lyrics, it is present in the lyrics because that accurately reflects Jamaican society.
I'm pretty sure that the whole role model thing has been canvassed adequately in other threads, not to mention being fairly well-researched from what I understand, so I'll content myself with saying that these lyrics at best reinforce and at worst incite homophobia. They are NOT only a reflection, they have other attributes.
Someone else can meat-shield now.
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Sofie, he was requesting entry be denied on the grounds of that policy. How does that make him not needed?
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Craig, your first link is broken. Also I don't see Charles Chauvel's "broad definition of incitement" - although admittedly I have just woken up. I don't get the relevance/context of that point either. Chauvel isn't basing his argument on the Crimes Act, which is where incitement would be relevant.
Can you also explain for me why Chauvel's call to deny Beenie Man a visa is wrong in principle? Feeling is running high on both sides of the debate and there have been threats of violence made. I have no idea how serious the risk is, but we do have policy in the Immigration Manual that addresses this specifically, and that policy is the basis of Chauvel's letter. What is it about this that you disagree with?
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Speaking of attributions, I see the Herald has picked up the story. The article notes that Jolisa writes about the discovery 'in her blog' without giving the name of, or linking to, 'the blog'.
Maybe it's different for journalism, but I can't imagine writing anything - whether it's an academic paper or an internal report or anything - and merely referencing 'X's book' or 'Y's paper'. Apart from anything else, it's just not helpful.
Slackers.
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To be fair, the Auckland City Council urban designers seem to have a pretty good idea about what they're up against. I heard - I think it was the head chap - on the radio a while ago.
He'd flown in from South Africa or somewhere to interview for the job, and on the ride from the airport to the city he became convinced the taxi driver was, well, taking him for a ride - due to the utter suburban-ness etc of the route. The driver assured him this was the most direct route & showed him on the map.
He said the city 'planning' he saw on arrival and in subsequent days was not much of improvement on the trip from the airport.
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your historical perspective argues that the obligations created by this historical meeting have transferred in a step by step fashion, rather than leaping over time from then to now
Because the Treaty is the contract that gives our current laws legitimacy, the obligations have transferred BOTH step by step and in leaps over time from then til now. Both parties to the contract are still extant.
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Keith, I think that might be the response of the year.
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...we dressed up as Steam Punk zombie hunters and ambushed the Wellington Zombie Walk outside Te Papa.
You know, should this become an annual event there would almost certainly be found, via PA, a ready supply of willing and well-equipped adventurers and colonial johnnies waiting for the call to arms. Hint hint.