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Shaneel Lal: 'Soul-crushing' plight of Gaza's queer people

OPINION: Queer Palestinians are defying the old trope that queer people do not exist in Gaza with their fight not only to live but also to be remembered....

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Shaneel Lal: Government tampering with the rights of employees with 90-day trials

OPINION The Government extended 90-day trial periods to all employers under urgency before Christmas. An employer with fewer than 20 employees can use a...

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Shaneel Lal: Te reo Māori makes us richer in so many ways

OPINION The Government is making several moves that, in my view, will suppress the use of te reo Māori. It will require all public service departments to...

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Tertiary fees-free policy: Shaneel Lal on how the change could put off potential uni students

OPINION The new Government will change Labour’s first-year fees-free tertiary education policy to fees-free for the last year. This policy change is perhaps...

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Shaneel Lal: Forcing students to attend lectures in person creates barriers

OPINION Last year, Victoria University of Wellington announced all second-year law students would have to attend lectures in person. Students who could not...

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Israel-Hamas war: I can't believe we are still begging our Government to call for a ceasefire in Gaza - Shaneel Lal

OPINION The images and videos I have seen on news sites and social media – showing the horrors inflicted by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on innocent...

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Shaneel Lal: Anti-gay hate crimes are a wake-up call for us all

OPINION A group of teenagers have allegedly brutally attacked at least nine gay men in apparent hate crimes in Christchurch in six weeks. The details of...

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Shaneel Lal: What's so offensive about the prefix 'cis'?

OPINION The real horror of Halloween wasn’t the ghosts. It was Elon Musk tweeting that the prefix cis “is a heterosexual slur”. This is the second time the...

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Shaneel Lal: Weighing the coalition options

OPINION Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins conceded the election on election night, but did he make the call too soon? For most of the election night, it...

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Shaneel Lal: Vote splitting was death knell for Labour as government

OPINION Labour and Greens were each other’s worst enemies this election. The second most frustrating thing after the left lost was watching Labour and Greens...

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