Prayer service for Zimbabwe

Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Local Issues, Nationhood, Race Relations | No Comments »

On Sunday afternoon I had the opportunity to attend a prayer service at St Joseph's Hall for the people of Zimbabwe. The service was organised by the Upper Hutt Catholic Church in solidarity with the innocent pro-democracy Zimbabweans who are ...

Peter Brown is just plain wrong

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Election 08, Race Relations | No Comments »

I was simply appalled by the latest diatribe from New Zealand First Deputy Leader Peter Brown about immigration. Mr Brown claims that the latest population projections from Statistics New Zealand show that the number of New Zealanders of Asian descent will ...