Anne Kennedy

YouTube video by Q+A with Jack Tame Helen Clark on how NZ should approach Trump, reassess Five Eyes | Q+A 2025

Good interview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M200...

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

"[it is impossible to speak about something

it is only possible to speak beside it"

- Juliana Spahr, "Responding"

"This path our people walked / one hundred two hundred / endless years / since the tall grass opened for us / and we breathed the incense that sun on prairie / offers to sky"
- "Peace Path", Heid E. Erdrich

"Rhythm and Blues is not / The downfall of a great civilization / And I expect you to / Realize / That the Temptations / have no connection with / The CIA"
- "A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails", Nikki Giovanni

There's always a moment when this one-line poem by Brian Turner seems entirely apposite.

NEW ZEALANDERS, A DEFINITION

Born here, buggered it up.

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"I want to wrap Old Government House / like Christo and Jean-Claude / I want to wrap Old Govt House / in pages of the Treaty"
- "Old Government House", Robert Sullivan

"Imagine you wake up / with a second chance: The blue jay / hawks his pretty wares / and the oak still stands, speading / glorious shade. If you don't look back, // the future never happens."
- "Dawn Revisited", Rita Dove

Dance little asshole dance
oh he gets elected, like a Calvinist
He says, I have these guts
Men, I have these guts.
- Alice Notley, 'Logic'

capitalism gnawing on its bone its bloody / blazing empty / bone its porny / plastic bone - Eileen Myles, 'The City'

Crazy to think that just 4 years ago Amanda Gorman read The Hill We Climb

Send your submissions here: RSBconsultation@regulation.govt.nz
(It's not a Bill yet, a discussion document.)

Regulatory Standards Bill slammed as 'dangerous' call for 'alarm bells' But proponents of the proposal say it is about better regulation and more transparent lawmaking.

Due tonight! I've just recovered from the Treaty one - which is the whole point, of coure. Listen to Jane Kelsey on RNZ on why there's mahi to do before midnight. Make a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Am I joining Bluesky because of Zuckerberg's decision to stop fact checks on Facebook?
'Probably.'