Last Thursday was ANZAC day. According to Wikipedia, ANZAC day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who have served.” Originally 25 April, ANZAC…
Last week the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill passed its final reading, 77 votes to 44, making New Zealand the 13th country in the world to legalise same-sex (and trans*) marriage. The bill, which comes into effect in August, not only allows same-sex and trans* couples to marry, but also allows both people in…
Botox. Cosmetic, medical, controversial and beneficial. Now I can only talk from the perspective of personal experience, so I will. Every three months I have botox injections into the spastic muscles in my left arm. Two vials of the toxin is injected into my arm, at multiple sites, targeting specific athetoid/spastic muscles throughout my whole…
I’ve always loved superheroes and comic books. So it’s no surprise really that about two years ago, when Philip Patston and I were driving back to Diversityworks HQ after a meeting, I turned and said to him “wouldn’t it be cool if we wrote a book about a kid who used a wheelchair…but his friend…
Lately it seems news media has really been milking as much as they can get out of stories. I note that it seems to happen more when there isn’t much in news. The “hot” news in the past week has been Jerry Collins arrested in Japan and Jesse Ryder attacked, Government department privacy breaches EQC,…
