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Wednesday 3 October 2018

NZ Snippets: Greenpeace, Teacher Strike, NZ First, Cameron Slater's Whaleoil, Racism and Cartoons

Greenpeace in Taranaki waters to send message to Australian oil giant.

Secondary teachers likely to reject pay offer

NZ First after Peters




Cameron Slater is an ultra- right wing blogger who publishes Whaleoil, a blog that mainly provides links to commentaries written by others of similar persuasion.  Cameron is a climate warming doubter, he thinks banning plastic bags futile, he disapproves of euthanasia on any grounds, and says "Enough of the man bashing."

I presume the blog is his only source of revenue because of its call for donations and heavy use of advertising.  Many ads are innocuous enough: pet, personal and car insurance, medical alarms, car washes and sales, Samsung Galaxy, rental property,  AVG virus protection, and so on.  

But some show poor taste for a blog purporting to strengthen NZ's political landscape.

Ads headed "Do you cum quickly with your wife?" "Erectile Dysfunction," "Single Russians," "Silk Couple Pyjamas" and "NZ dating" sites make strange -- or perhaps not so strange -- bedfellows with the more laudable reasons for his blog.

Racism and Cartoons: Where do you Draw the Line


Tom Scott, who drew this Waitangi Day cartoon in the Evening Post in 1988, is seen as one of a new generation of enlightened cartoonists.
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Tom Scott, who drew this Waitangi Day cartoon in the Evening Post in 1988, is seen as one of a new generation of enlightened cartoonists.

Newspaper cartoons show how attitudes to Māori have changed over time, writes Philip Matthews. 

Do you know about the Haka Party Incident? Chances are you never heard of it but it was an important event. 

The year was 1979 and the setting was the University of Auckland.

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-- ACW

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