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545 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Each year, around this time, millions of women & girls would be preparing to return to their classrooms after the winter break. It remains uncertain if they’ll ever be able to gain formal education in Afghanistan
Love bombing is stage 1 of the narcissist and a tactic used by abusive people. Intensity and declarations of love too fast, followed by sudden withdrawal.
Keep an eye on the skies #Wellington - faulty street lamps could cause serious injury or death, whereabouts of all of them unknown.
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'The Māori text [of the Treaty] simply makes more explicit what was already implicit in the English text and well understood on the British side — that Māori self-government (rangatiratanga) can co-exist with Crown sovereignty (kāwanatanga).' #Waitangi2023
https://t.co/8l5HMUFq0u
'When politicians say that Māori ceded all sovereignty, they’re wrong. They are factually wrong. We must challenge those arguments when people put them forward.' #Waitangi2023
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Some prisoners at New Zealand’s only maximum security prison are being left locked in their cells for up to three days at a time – breaching human rights.
https://t.co/4iH8FKWWQU
Maiden speeches from our leaders tell us a little about who they were before politics.
This from @chrishipkins resonates.
Congrats Chris Hipkins. Big shoes to fill, but I know you’ll fight hard for our kids, our communities & our climate.
Full speech: https://t.co/ZDzIB4FJZ5
Dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs in the past 18 months from a Brighton hotel run by the Home Office in a pattern apparently being repeated across the south coast.
https://t.co/iCsmZjwqZO
'Lots of information isn't secret, it's just hard to find': Nicky Hager on the investigative techniques of one of NZ's most famous whistleblowers
https://t.co/gS44nxm6Zd
'It was as if grief enlarged my heart. I have experienced periods of happiness more than I ever felt before, even though it was the most devastating thing ever to happen to me.' Nick Cave on the death of his son and finding a way back from the abyss.
https://t.co/komfMlA5sX