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November 28, 2018 by Jan Rivers Leave a Comment

Royal Commission on Social Policy Research Project

This page contains the work of the Victoria University Summer Scholarship project Revealing the Royal Commission on Social Policy. The Royal Commision Potted History including links to the authors and commission staff The Royal Commission Table of Contents and List of Authors Outline of the project.

November 13, 2018 by Jan Rivers 1 Comment

Invitation to Education and Political Literacy in New Zealand: Civics and Citizenship Summit

This one day conference is presented by the New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA) / Te Kāhui Tātai Tōrangapū o Aotearoa Civics and Citizenship Working Group, to discuss Civics and Citizenship. It is being held the same week as the NZPSA annual conference. Canterbury University’s Bronwyn Hayward has extended an invitation to Public Good newsletter […]

November 13, 2018 by Jan Rivers 1 Comment

Submission to the consultation on the State Sector Act legislation.

Introduction My name is Jan Rivers. I am a librarian and information management specialist and I have an interest in the public good – meaning issues pertaining to good quality public services and good quality democracy. I live in Wellington. I attended the Institution of Public Administration of NZ (IPANZ) seminar at which Minister Hipkins […]

@matroked @NewshubNZ Conduct unbecoming from @NewshubNZ and Tova O'Brien. It was after all the public servants who let down their Minister and @NZNationalParty who had the inside story to leak.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Having said all that I do think there is room for accommodation, compromise and debate (although too late for NZ's law). I've been meeting with & putting out feelers to people but many are terrified of the blow back.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Of which the undebated & anti-democratic NZ BDRRM Bill is just one example. So I have full empathy (& quite some personal familiarity & understanding) of people with dysphoria. But my political priorities are the rights of lesbians, natal women and they also extend to gay men.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Or the explicit & covert work to replace sex with gender & give preference to trans over gay people in international & national law through the Jogjakarta principles and other related initiatives. tandfonline.com/doi/…

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman Or this well funded UK survey & research project. The survey is impossible to answer as a woman or man. It only makes "sense" to people who believe that sex is malleable & gender exists. futureoflegalgender.… It is flawed "research" where only one conclusion is possible.

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@greenjaneNZ @golrizghahraman When I looked more closely at where this is heading politically - the extinguishment of natal women as a distinct class of people - I decided to speak and write about it. Like this UK Professor Gender Studies for example mobile.twitter.com/s…

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@golrizghahraman You are an MP. You have accused a specific, named young woman of causing hate & violence. That I imagine is at least technically a defamation. You are also flat out saying that by not believing men can become women a person is hateful. Nothing to see here?

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The defamatory comments directed at Gender Critical commentators by Jan Logie, @golrizghahraman Louisa Wall & others is a new & deeply worrying trend in politics. They are saying that freedom of belief no longer applies to some people. #endofpluralism

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The review of government algorithms is an area of particular interest and there is a chance for civil society representation in that review. You can contact @ogpnz to request to be kept up to date with this or any of the goals.

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A few days ago the third Open Government Partnership Action Plan was launched. Its been pretty well consulted on & has some pretty decent goals. :-) ogp.org.nz/new-zeala… @ogpnz

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