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Letter From Elsewhere: Untimely Death
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 10:39 am | Anne Else
Untimely death comes in many forms. Along with thousands of other New Zealanders, I walked through the city on Saturday to protest against its arbitrary, mass infliction on the citizens of Iraq, and on the armed forces now being marshalled to attack them. More >>
Our Nation’s Story - Heritage Or Vandalism?
Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 10:05 am | Anne Else
Reading the available documents, in full, certainly helps. I wonder how many of the people who reacted so furiously to the speech by the Race Relations Commissioner to mark the International Day of Cultural Heritage have actually read the full text ... More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Half The Sky
Wednesday, 13 November 2002, 11:39 am | Anne Else
"I Said To A Woman Can You Sing? She Said What? I said Sing. She said Who? I Said You. She Said Yes. I Said Oh." More >>
The Strange Case of the Vanishing Women
Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 8:30 am | Anne Else
“What do women want?” Freud famously asked. Well, for starters, we would like to be seen to exist. More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Back To The Future?
Wednesday, 14 August 2002, 9:27 am | Anne Else
Where you as bemused as I was by the election? All of sudden, thanks mainly to a media beat-up about the way 100 undecided Auckland voters twiddled their knobs, an virtually unknown little designer party called United Future NZ shot up from almost ... More >>
Letter from Elsewhere: And I Am Marie Of Romania
Wednesday, 10 July 2002, 10:10 am | Anne Else
This week I was able to add some fine new items to my small but growing collection of Breathtaking Idiocies of Our Time. I get them all from the local papers, and my husband knows when I’ve found another one, because I start to shout and wave it about. More >>
Letter from Elsewhere: Socio-Economic Junk
Wednesday, 12 June 2002, 10:23 am | Anne Else
I’m fed up to the back teeth with welfare dependency. It’s an alien term imported, like so much other socio-economic junk, from the far right of the USA. More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Arizona
Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 9:29 am | Anne Else
When the big gas heater broke down just as the southerly hit Wellington this week, I wished I were back in Arizona, where the thermometer is already heading up into the 30s - only they insist on calling it the 90s. More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Pasifika
Wednesday, 13 March 2002, 11:44 am | Anne Else
Three small dark blue flowers sit round the crown of the sunhat. Thin blue cords thread through its finely latticed – what? Flax? I realise I don’t even know exactly what these graceful hats are made of, though I’ve been wearing them in some form ... More >>
Pasifika Festival Funding Auckland City Response
Wednesday, 13 March 2002, 12:08 am | Anne Else
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following correspondence was received today from Auckland City Council’s Manager, Leisure Services. It follows up on questions raised in Anne Else’s Letter From Elsewhere on the subject of funding for the Pasifika festival. More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Bang, Bang, You’re Dead
Wednesday, 13 February 2002, 9:36 am | Anne Else
I’ve just heard a Pentagon spokeswoman say something extraordinary. She was talking about a US missile strike on what was initially claimed to be a group of Al-Qaeda members in the pile of rubble formerly known as Afghanistan. More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Come See The Future!
Wednesday, 12 December 2001, 10:01 am | Anne Else
I don’t know what the recently routed Queenstown council was planning to build when they carved a great chunk out of the green hillside of trees above their town, to make way for a “development” they called the Commonage. But I wouldn’t mind betting ... More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Your Money and Your Life
Wednesday, 31 October 2001, 10:07 am | Anne Else
We learnt a useful double lesson this week. Today’s expert highwaymen don’t believe in giving us a choice. They want both our money and our life. More >>
The Les Mills Pro-GE Advertorial Mystery
Monday, 29 October 2001, 2:59 pm | Anne Else
When is an ad not an ad? And should an advertiser be required to say who they are when they place an advert? More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: I Like Trains
Wednesday, 10 October 2001, 8:17 am | Anne Else
I really like trains. I always used to get sick on long car trips. It wasn’t just the bad ventilation and windy metal roads. Five minutes watching a video shot with a hand-held camera, and I start getting nauseous. Today I still need frequent stops ... More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: McJobs Won’t Buy McKids
Wednesday, 5 September 2001, 8:51 am | Anne Else
We’re supposed to be cheering. The official unemployment rate is now 5.2%, the lowest quarterly rate since March 1988. Job numbers increased by 0.9% this quarter, the strongest growth in five years. That’s good, isn’t it? More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Sky Pie - Pigs Might Fly
Wednesday, 1 August 2001, 8:47 am | Anne Else
“$50 gift voucher” said the piece of cardboard. I was suspicious, but after I read it twice I was convinced it was genuine. Because we hold a certain charge card, a certain well-known chain of department stores would give us $50 worth of goods free. ... More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Inalienable Feminist Rights
Wednesday, 4 July 2001, 10:00 am | Anne Else
As a feminist of thirty years’ standing, I would like to make a short statement. Being able to wear short skirts and long earrings to work is not an inalienable feminist right. It is not even a feminist issue. More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Get Your Embryos Here
Wednesday, 2 May 2001, 10:21 am | Anne Else
Those funky fertility gods are at it again. This week they scored a double bullseye. First they called for spare stored embryos to go to unrelated people who needed them to have a baby. Then they announced that New Zealand’s first official IVF ‘surrogate’ ... More >>
Letter From Elsewhere: Unfinished Business
Wednesday, 11 April 2001, 9:22 am | Anne Else
In 1993, in a book called, prophetically, Unfinished Business, Sandra Coney wrote: “The National Cervical Screening Programme is one of the few tangible outcomes of the Cervical Cancer Inquiry.” More >>
