Comment: Voting for Gladys Berejiklian is not a feminist act l emfarrelly
“As a feminist I’m voting for Gladys,” a friend posted. He was being provocative, of course, but it’s an interesting point. Is voting for a woman an inherently feminist act? Should women feel some moral loyalty to Gladys, even if they repudiate her politics? If not, why not?electrifying run-in with the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust
to George Pell’s establishment defenders to the murder of Muslim worshippers in Christchurch – the white male club is flexing its muscles. Sometimes this reads as a strengthening of the stranglehold, other times as a desperate clawback against slippage; rear-guard for the club. Probably, in truth, it’s both.Sydney is intensely clubby. I know that’s not the official line.
Yes, yes. I’m a foreigner. A kiwi. And I’m sorry to point this out but the difference becomes especially stark when comparing leaders. Scott Morrison’s fudging talk, after the Christchurch shootings, of how major immigration reduction isn’t xenophobic but about “AdvertisementIt was one of those spine-tingling political moments, like Obama’s first election speech.
Did Christchurch even have mosques then? No doubt there was a Muslim community but there would never have been a Boys’ High haka, especially not in their honour. Christchurch had long been New Zealand’s bastion of white male tradition. Christchurch, we joked, was where it still mattered whose family arrived on the first four ships. To be in the club, fifth-generation pakeha, was to be respected. To be foreign, female, Maori or just different was to be distinctly second rate.
Since then, New Zealand has transformed utterly. Now most people I know speak or are learning te reo Maori. The traditions and language are genuinely loved and respected. Maoritanga is cool and the country, on way to becoming bilingual, can genuinely call itself Aotearoa New Zealand.
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