Donald Trump was elected US president this week. Despite vastly outspending her opponent and drafting a galaxy of celebrities to her cause – Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin, Taylor Swift – Democratic candidate Kamala Harris lost the Electoral College, the popular vote and all the swing states. This has bewildered and dismayed liberals – Read more
A Ngai Tahu historian has published a book about what she calls an unspoken part of New Zealand history – inter-racial Maori and Pakeha unions and marriages. For the book, Matters of the Heart, the University of Otago’s Angela Wanhalla spent several years researching the unions spanning from when early settlers arrived. Dr Wanhalla says Read more
A dispute has arisen between been the board of trustees of St Teresa’s School, in Karori, Wellington, and its staff about the teachers attending Tuesday’s meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute. In a letter to parents the board said it asked that staff attend two separate meetings – in Wellington and in Lower Hutt – Read more
There was was not much sympathy on the talk back shows for the Sky City employee whose job was in jeopardy because she was carrying a Bible at work. On Wednesday aftenoon, on National Radio, host Jim Mora and his fellow panelists expressed surprise at the amount of support that seemed to exist among the Read more
A union claims an Auckland casino worker faces the sack after bosses caught her carrying a pocket Bible at work. Tuni Parata was left stunned after receiving a letter from her SkyCity managers accusing her of misconduct for carrying the Bible on her shifts as a tower host at the casino. SkyCity says carrying the Read more
In his Encyclical Laborem Exercens John John Paul II said “The rights of workers must take priority over the maximisation of profits” . “It is important not to quote selectively from Church documents to justify a predetermined position”, says Brian O’Connell. “So this quotation from the encyclical does not mean that the social teaching of the Catholic Church always favours the Read more
ANZCO workers locked out of their Marton plant since October 19 for say they are determined to continue their opposition to proposed pay cuts of up to 20 per cent, shift changes and reductions in allowances. Negotiations between the union and the company began in April. Sir Graeme Harrison, founder and chairman of ANZCO, recently received a Welly award in the Read more