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13 March 2023 by Jan Rivers 5 Comments

An Open Letter about Green Party MPs trying to prevent advocacy for women’s rights.

Down load the article as a pdf. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (aka Posie Parker) is a UK Women’s Rights Activist who provides women with a platform to speak about how their lives have been impacted by gender theory See [i] in their own words. She is being hosted in New Zealand by a group of feminist women […]

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27 November 2022 by Jan Rivers

Should the New Zealand Ministry of Health adopt WPATH’s SOC 8?

Read the full paper here Read the full paper here WPATH is the World Profesional Association for Transgender Health. The organisation recently released new standards of care which our Ministry of Health has said it will rely on. They said Our approach to the provision of gender affirming health care will continue to be guided […]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Democracy, Sex and Gender

13 September 2022 by Jan Rivers

The closure of England’s youth gender medicine clinic and its impacts for New Zealand

Click to open a PDF version with a full table of contents The Closure of England’s Youth Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) How the debate on puberty blockers plays out in New Zealand. Discussion Appendices References The Closure of England’s Youth Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) On 28 July 2022 the National Health Service announced […]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Democracy, Sex and Gender

13 October 2017 by Jan Rivers

Who could be who in the new cabinet?

Everyone is so preoccupied with the diversions of government formation that there’s little talk of the outcome and who might be in the new roles. The lack of informed speculation about the policy accommodations of both options is bizarre and the sight of a media crew waiting in the parliamentary complex lobbies to report on […]

Filed Under: Employment, Government, Health, Housing, The Economy, The Environment Tagged With: Cabinet, Coalition negotiations, Democracy, Green Party, labour government, Ministers, New Zealand First

27 September 2017 by Jan Rivers

PollyAnna politics? The positive possibilities of the Red, Green and Black

    Update 28/2/17 to include policy synergy on Trade Agreements and Employment relations. Printable version of PollyAnna politics All bets are off for the formation of a new government. But everyone seems to want a say. Me too! The Sunday Star Times reiteration at the weekend of National’s “Moral Auhority” (sic) that had been […]

Filed Under: Education, Elections, Employment, Government, Tertiary Education, The Economy, The Environment Tagged With: Democracy

9 November 2015 by Jan Rivers

Conference report back

In all about 60 people attended Information, ethics and the public good. We heard a dozen great speakers and had about 4 hours dedicated to debate and discussion focused on what we had heard. A full conference report is in development and the full content of the presentations will be posted here over the next […]

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19 September 2014 by Jan Rivers

On the cusp of something very special (part two).

So Bill English thinks that welfare is like crack cocaine and the successful National Government has announced its intention to cut the welfare bill significantly. He revealed in June that if re-elected National will bring about the biggest changes to public services that NZ has seen in 50 years.  How will it do this? Here is […]

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17 September 2014 by Jan Rivers

On the cusp of something very special?

Is the National Party keeping some things out of sight in case they frighten the electorate? Here is some worrying evidence that this may be the case. On 20 June this year there was a Wikileaks release on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) and the media coverage internationally was mainly related to its potential […]

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10 September 2014 by Jan Rivers

Speech to the clean politics rally Parliament 10 September

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Several people at the rally asked me to publish this speech. Here it is Tena koutou e hoa ma Ko Jan Rivers toku ingoa We held a conference at St Andrews on the Terrace on Aug 1 and 2. The topic was democracy, ethics and the public good. But the Public Good is really much […]

Filed Under: Privatisation, Public Sector Tagged With: Democracy

9 September 2014 by Jan Rivers

Clean politics rally Wednesday September 10 12.00 Parliament Steps

A ‘washing-line’ of placards with three key ideas for cleaning up politics in the wake of the Dirty Politics saga will be displayed by attenders of a Kiwis for Clean Politics gathering on Wednesday at 12pm. Melinda Gamlen, organiser of the event was so shocked and dismayed at the corrupt activities going on in the […]

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25 August 2014 by Jan Rivers

Lowered enrolment levels – the practical impact of dirty politics?

Media release 15 August 2014 A healthy democracy should be about more than the government being able to enrol voters effectively and run the mechanics of an election. With the historically low levels of voter enrolment this year, including a 5% fall in 18-25 year-olds signing up, it appears that even this minimal requirement of […]

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25 June 2014 by Jan Rivers

Poor quality democracy?

Back in March a number of people from more than about a dozen organisations got together to discuss the quality of New Zealand’s democracy at an informal hui in Wellington.  I was there. We discussed the good, the bad and what needs to happen for people to feel more included and less marginal to the […]

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