One of our members is a university lecturer, so Emmy had a chat with 95bFM about her work as a criminologist and how the Three Strikes law is a capitalist attack on the working class. You can listen to the recording here: 95bfm.com/bcast/ready-st…

New episode of Better off Read is up. romesh dissanayake has written an amazing book. So grateful for this conversation.

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“However, there’s something in me that doesn’t want to take the slightest risk in detracting from anyone’s experience of reading this book. That’s not because it’s surprising in a twisty…kind of way. Rather, it’s because this book is an empathy machine” oddandspecial.wordpress.com/2024/04/03/aud…

In America to launch the latest issue of ALTA in which they published a little chapbook/long braided essay I wrote the last time I was stateside — a dramatic lyric essay about the Pacific Ocean & connection

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Loved this Talia Marshall 🍉🍉🍉 cant wait to read the book

Any word from the PM on success at the Biennale? Minister for the Arts?

'There is a reading experience on offer here which is deeper than the slim spine of the novel suggests' Pip Adam on Ash in today's Newsroom newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/18/boo…

“When something is beautiful I am investigating it and thinking ‘why do I think it’s beautiful?’ Everyone has different ways of processing, and this is the way I do it.' Pip Adam in the paper today. 💛 stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350240…’

#BHN Why comparing NZ to other countries successes is bumper sticker nonsense. You only get those outcomes if you were to replicate the whole of that countries society's rules, laws, conditions and history #nzpol

There is seemingly no bar low enough for these men

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This is one of the nastiest government's we've ever had.

No cause evictions are gutter politics, and anyone buying their bs trying to reframe it as 'pro tenant' should be ashamed.

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An entire newsroom is being shut down. Heritage TV current affairs shows holding power to account - gone.

Fewer voices to tell Zealanders' stories.

Here's Minister of Broadcasting Melissa Lee.

I thought Melissa Lee's interview with Lisa Owen was the worst, and then I heard the one with Heather du Plessis-Allan. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-04…

This isn't about 'soft' or 'tough' approaches to justice. This is about the government choosing boot camps that see children abused and traumatised over evidence-based approaches to changing behaviour, reducing harm and restoring healthy relationships. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

new animals sighting in san franscisco's citylights bookshop. the book is following me Pip Adam