Posts by Hilary Stace
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You lucky people with feijoas. I have planted 6 trees over the last few years and this year I have two tiny little fruits on one little tree. I think it is too windblown here. They were in the supermarket today for the first time at $12 a kilo. I just picked up a couple just to smell them. Bliss would be more feijoas than you could eat.
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Thanks for clarifying that, Lucy. There is also a Human Rights Amendment Act before Parliament aimed at creating more generic commissioners, which is also a dilution. Not sure when it will come back into the House, but I can imagine that weakening the HRC in any way possible would fit with the agenda of the government.
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How long before Paul Holmes et al come out defending POAL and blaming the wharfies for being locked out?
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Rumours are that the Human Rights Commission is facing cuts up to a third of its funding (although I haven't been able to find confirmation of this), which will affect the ability of its Human Rights Review Tribunal to do its work. Punishment for taking up the case of the solo mother v the Minister?
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Good op ed piece in the DP yesterday about the consequences of the selling off WCC owned Capital Power in the 1990s, by Sue Kedgeley.
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Sounds like the Councillors have decided today they are legal leaders not moral ones. This situation desperately needs some ethical leadership from Council.
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The session was completely full. Next to me was a young man in his 20s. There was a lot of good humour and talk of the importance of nurturing the ecosystem. The title was ‘Where were you in 1972?’ Germaine is 73. Marilyn, at 60 this year, was the youngest.
Germaine talked about a young woman surgeon she had met at a book signing. She had done all the things the second wavers had fought for. But she had walked away from that career as the the environment in the operating surgery and the comments and sexism of the male clinicians were as abusive as any other workplace where women are powerless.
Sandra talked about values being more important than gender in her current job, where some of her closest allies are men and where women can be part of the problem.
There was a lot of talk about dignity. I hope it will be broadcast on Radio NZ later this year as there was a lot of fascinating stuff.
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Up Front: Safety Net, in reply to Emma Hart,
There was an accusation from the audience of transphobia. Don't know the details of the case but something about an academic appointment. Germaine denied it and said the reporting in the media was wrong. Sandra was also criticised for not supporting prostitution (but who ever said feminism was easy?).
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Honestly, IME, and it’s probably a mark of the quality of the men I know, I feel like I run across more women who are unwilling or unable to recognise when it’s their turn to listen rather than speak, because then you might learn something.
On the other hand, men still overwhelmingly dominate most discourses. Went to hear the theoretically intimidating trio of Germaine Greer, Sandra Coney and Marilyn Waring speak this morning. I was surprised to hear that Germaine regularly has the experience (such as in shops or queues) of feeling invisible and being ignored (which many of us can relate to). Also that Sandra Coney and her colleague Cathy Casey can still have their contributions at Council meetings unacknowledged until one of the males bring up the same suggestion, at which it time the meeting takes interested notice. If this happens to these women what hope is there for the rest of us to have our voices heard?
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Women have always done this negotiating with GPs. Just talk to anyone who has ever sought information about a termination (or even contraception) from a GP who disapproves.