A fortnight back, Bill Ralston, writing in the New Zealand Herald, took a short-sighted gratuitous swipe at Bishop Tamaki’s assertion that Christchurch’s earthquakes are caused by God’s wrath at homosexuality. Frankly, this sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
INVISIBLE EARNINGS
An extraordinary article in a recent Economist put the foreign exchange revenue yielded from British courts at an amount slightly higher than all of New Zealand’s export earnings from all sources.
GOOD NEWS
New Zealand is experiencing a horrific crime wave with endless news of mainly maori violence, murders and thefts in our cities.
ON LITIGATION
The New Zealand Herald reports how a non-member of the Greymouth Christian community Gloriavale, is seeking a judicial intervention in the community’s managing Trust and the removal of the current trustees.
MINDLESS JACINDAMANIA
A New Zealand Herald correspondent Jon Stafford of Hastings, wrote that “he has nothing but praise for how Jacinda Ardern… handled the White Island explosion”.