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Are Free Contraceptives Really the Answer?
May 13, 2012
As New Zealand’s welfare bashing continues over the Government’s proposal to offer free contraception to female welfare beneficiaries, political hopeful Colin Craig has stuck his boots into New Zealand’s ‘promiscuous’ women by opposing such a move.
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Mothers Who Play With ‘Dolls’
September 15, 2011
“Here comes Pretty Woman…Paisley…” announced the host on Toddlers and Tiaras. Out struts three-year-old Paisley dressed as Julia Roberts who plays a prostitute in ‘Pretty Woman’. She is wearing a look-alike outfit…
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Promiscuity: Loose Morals or Searching for Love?
July 26, 2011
A Timaru gynaecologist made a call to “stigmatise” New Zealand’s promiscuous women in an attempt to change their reputation as being “the most promiscuous women in the world.” But there are things he doesn’t know that lead to this behaviour.
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Christchurch, and what can be learned from disasters
March 05, 2011
Pema Chödrön, a Buddhist nun who wrote When Things Fall Apart, stated that we need chaos and disasters in our lives to “wake us up”. As terrible as it appears, this is sometimes what we need to change the whole course of our lives for the better—although often we can only see this in hindsight.
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New Zealand’s Social Crisis
February 18, 2011
When governments remain fixated on reducing debt and growing the economy, they ignore the core social problems that cost billions and create ongoing cycles of poverty, violence, child abuse, health problems, and drug and alcohol abuse.
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New Zealand’s Dark Secret
February 01, 2011
Today I read with shock and disgust and a sickening feeling in my stomach today about a two-year-old boy who was kicked to death by his mother’s boyfriend. The little boy had been sleeping on a couch and awoke to discover that he had wet it.
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How Can We End Family Violence?
December 07, 2010
Along with steadily increasing incidences of family violence, are the spiralling economic and health costs it creates – not to mention the huge problems caused when drugs and alcohol are used to self-medicate the anxiety family violence creates. What can we do to end these cycles of abuse and create peace within ourselves and our homes?
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Shining Stars of the Chilean Miners’ Rescue
October 23, 2010
When an American friend asked me if I knew who drilled the shaft for the miners’ escape in Chile, I had to confess my ignorance. I went in search of his story and discovered many stars who played pivotal roles in the miners’ rescue…
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Ending Cycles of Violence is an Inside Job
September 23, 2010
The choices we individually or collectively make can create heaven or hell upon Earth. Each one of us has the power of choice within us, and the power to choose peace within our own thoughts and therefore our lives.
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Outer Crisis has an Inner Cure
August 19, 2010
“We devote a lot of time to adult policies, trying to make a better world. But every reform is frustrated or perverted. The quality of life is not improved, because the people are the same. What changes people? …”
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