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Andrews did the right thing but an explanation, not an apology, should be forthcoming.
The debacle for Victoria started with the meeting chaired by the prime minister and attended by the premiers. After the meeting no one knew whose responsibility it was to organise the quarantine arrangements.
In the case of the quarantine arrangements, Scott Morrison was the chairman and clearly he did not seek agreement about who was responsible for what and have the matter recorded in the minutes.
Bill Nighy as Billy Mack in Love Actually
Credit: Peter Mountain
It regularly tops the nation’s favourite Christmas movie polls. It’s packed with some of the country’s most adored actors – Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley – all falling in love with each other in a winding series of interconnected stories, rolled out in scenes that have become iconic.
So why have I always hated Love Actually?
During lockdown, my publisher finally gave me the green light to explain and explore my problems with it in a book. And now, having examined the film afresh, do you know what? I’ve realised I was absolutely right. Here are just some of the reasons why Love Actually is a terrible film.
A person nurtured in the community
contributes strongly to society.
Learn the
colonial history of your country. Recognise the strength and
resilience of whānau. Understand how privilege and racism
operates within health care systems and be open to naming
it. Promote the use of te reo and tikanga Māori in
workplaces.
These are some of the recommendations for
paediatricians in Aotearoa NZ and Australia in a landmark
publication released today by the Royal Australasian College
of Physicians (RACP).
Its inaugural Statement on
Indigenous Child Health is unequivocal: the gaps between the
health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Aotearoa
The Mail s music critic ADRIAN THRILLS rounds up this year s best.
Joni Mitchell has always bristled at the notion that she is a folk singer.
Given that her music has encompassed pop, jazz and world beats as well as the acoustic songs with which she made her name that s no surprise.
But listening to a new box set that charts her formative years, that folk tag is hard to escape, and she knows it. I didn t think folk was a good description of what I was, she says in the liner notes. And then I listened, and it was beautiful. I had this realisation . . . I was a folk singer!
‘I was trying simultaneously to numb the grief I felt and to burrow into that grief, so I could stand in it.’
I wasn’t in LA because of Joni Mitchell, but that was what I had told my Lyft driver and it felt good to have a story.
‘Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell,’ he said. ‘I’m just thinking if I know someone who knows Joni.’
I didn’t say anything.
‘Hmm, wait I think I do. I’ve known Gillian Welch for like twenty years, I’ll give her a call. Maybe Gillian can hook you up, get you five minutes on the phone with her or something. Here, take my number.’