Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

So... will there be a challenge to the Labour Party leadership or not? With all these damn redundancies, most of my sources have left the building, and the stalwarts of the Wellington rumour mill are as confused as a bunch of headless chooks. They may as well be speaking Klingon.

It was a huge honour to speak with Avery on this podcast a while back. I’m looking forward to listening to this final episode. A huge loss to see the Unsettling Extremism podcast and He Whenua Taurikura close. Mauri ora @averysmith.bsky.social @joannakidman.bsky.social

As He Whenua Taurikura closes its doors, this final episode distils years of research into a narrative about what extremism really threatens: not just physical safety, but the fundamental human need to belong and our ideas of peace. open.spotify.com/episode/3umc... #populism #GRT #islamophobia

67,906 days (or 2,231 months) later... and sovereignty still not ceded. Never ceded.

... Umm, hello? Mr Luxon?...This is Venezuela calling. ... ? Yeah gidday, we can't take your call right now. Please leave your message after the beep. ... Okaay, it's just that the Rules-Based International Order has broken down and... [BEEEEP]

Over-hearing Avis rental car staff at Christchurch airport yesterday charging a price-gouging $4000 for one car for one week to an overseas tourist. Attempting to get us to sign a rental car agreement without providing the actual agreement. Cowboys!

Say what now?! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

"When decisions become contentious, the backstops to resolve conflict tend to be drawn from western practices, and include things like a reliance on centralised authority, closed-door meetings, and formal votes": Sasha McMeeking e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

I've signed our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

"Knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing." Freire calls this the 'banking system of education' This is what Stanford/Seymour are doing to our children

“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed” ― Paulo Freire

“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (It's a Freirean kind of day)

At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Picking a fight with teachers? Good luck with that.

Can any public servants help please (if there are any left): Te Puni Kokiri used to administer Te Pūtake o te Riri fund but its disappeared off the TPK website. Am I right in assuming this funding has been cut? Is there any govt funding for Rā Maumahara now or do iwi carry this entirely on their own

An intriguing take on the libertarian philosophers who run the NZ branch of the Atlas Network www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/op...

This is truly shameful legislation. The government is once again showing contempt for the rule of law. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

(Teacher educators take note>>>) 'Uphold Te Tiriti so that tamariki can learn in their reo, within their tikanga, and on their whenua. Honour Te Tiriti so that whānau, hapū, and iwi see their histories and knowledge valued' e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Advance copy of the new book.

I will be down at Marsden Books, Karori, this Saturday 11 October at 12.30pm to sign books and stuff for Bookshop Day. Come along if you are in the area.

“In this 50th anniversary year, the Tribunal and Te Tiriti are under a sustained attack from perhaps the most anti-Tiriti government that we’ve seen since the Tribunal was established.” — Carwyn Jones.

We went from "ban guns" to "manufacture guns" in six years 🙃

NZ academics... please take a moment to read this. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I have never in my life felt as ashamed of the settler state of New Zealand as I am today. #FreePalestineNow

Well, that didn't fckn last long! Every bastard academic in the country has emailed me to ask how I did it. Inbox full. Again.

For the first time in nearly 3 years... my inbox is empty. What shall I measure myself against now? Is anyone left on earth? Am I alone in the void? What shall I have for dinner? Strange times.

Voting in local body elections when you're on the unpublished Māori roll is a clusterfuck of refusals. Last local body elections I was given the wrong voting form and staff refused to give me the right one, now my local council can't give me any advice about how and where to cast a special vote.FFS!

Srsly can we all just calm down about open plan learning environments before following Minister Stanford into a pearl-clutching frenzy that cleverly distracts from the really big problems facing education, like ya know... child poverty Here's a more balanced POV aecnz.substack.com/p/what-paddy...

At first glance the University Advisory Group's final report is that it's a curate's egg, and Cabinet's response is predictably weak. There's nothing much in any of it for Māori or Pacific scholarship, students or academics. Te Tiriti is notably absent. Perhaps a closer reading will shift my view.

"Misinformation seems to be the name of the anti-Māori game right now" Vini Olssen-Reeder & Corinne Seals on a Ministry of Education making policy based on a series of linguistic fictions e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

This is assimilation era pedagogy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

And yet another cut to the Marsden Fund. $15million gone. Just like that. Cuts to health research. Cuts to the Endeavour Fund.The razor gangs sure are busy.

Ok, anyone have any best guesses what the "major education announcement" from the PM and Minister Stanford on Monday will be? The end of NCEA? Any thoughts?

Controversial viewpoint: I fear this meeting might have been scheduled after the usual bed times of Hobson's Pledge #InternetNZ

Yes! #Internetnz

#InternetNZ and now we get to the pointy part of the hui. Thoughts and prayers everyone

NZ: Can anybody explain to me how a coalition agreement item can take precedence over democracy (i.e. "it's in our agreement, so we *have* to pass it")? If it goes to Select Commitee and the 'No's outnumber the 'Yes's what gives the Govt the right to press ahead regardless? #OIA #RSB #nzpol

As we wind down the work of He Whenua Taurikura, I feel incredibly proud of the team at the Centre and the magnificant community of scholars who shine light into these dark spaces. It's been a blast but it's time to step back into the world of Māori scholarship that has nurtured me over the years

At this stage, the other mayoral candidates can probably stop campaigning now. Ray Chung is doing that job for them.

What an absolutely vile, grubby little man. What a sordid, misogynistic attack.

I've signed! our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...

On not reading the room: 'One person recalls [Neil Quigley] working the phones before a critical meeting and turning up confident he’d carry the day then being blindsided when nobody supported him “He’s a very political operator but he’s not very good at it, at times” newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/13/d...

On top of humanities and social sciences being cut from eligibility for the Marsden Fund, changes to 're-balance' the histories curriculum, attacks on the Waitangi Tribunal, etc, it seems clear the government would prefer we remain in ignorance about our history. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Great to see the first 20 years of the NZ Listener (1939-59) now available on Papers past. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...