In the City of Sails
I am writing from Auckland on a mild and clear evening...... Did almost nothing today after sleeping thru most of the morning.
My flight (Air New Zealand) was originally scheduled for 9.30am yesterday - and I spent the whole night before packing and watching the tennis. I had prepared for not getting any sleep that night. But when I got to the airport and checked in, fog prevented my flight by running and everyone had to go back into the entry section with our luggage returned when my flight was cancelled and I had to spend three hours queuing to rebook for the evening flight, which was scheduled at 6.30pm and which eventuated an hour late. The service was amongst the most shabby I have ever experienced - a quarter-size portion of bland cold pasta and a pittance of pork was what amounted to dinner after starving for more than an hour after the attendants announced that our meal was about to be served. So I didn't get in to Aotearoa until one in the morning.
I'm travelling by train to the capital tomorrow where I'm meant to have tea with some Young Labour personalities here. NZ is a unicameral parliament of 120 MPs elected on a modified proportional representation - more on that later. Basically seats are allocated on the proportion of votes cast, not by the number of electorates or ridings won.
While at the airport yesterday I was unable to get a copy of Latham's vindictive book, but I was able to get a few snippets in the media. I believe that Latham was unelectable for the beginning; the day where he was chosen as Labor leader was one of the most depressing days of my life. He had no excuse to not make a statement about the tsunami when he was ill: in my first eight weeks of school this year I saw dozens of people with life-threatening pancreatitis. Now he retorts by saying "do you expect me to reverse the waves?". Wanker. And now he seeks to do as much damage to what remains of the ALP as possible. We are lucky that he is gone, even if Sleazeby hasn't done as much as we would like.
As you probably know the dark forces gain control of the Senate tomorrow and it was very good to see 100000+ people march on the streets of Melbourne against the proposed industrial relations "reforms".
In better news, the Canadian parliament has passed legislation to legalize same sex marriages (although already permitted in eight of ten provincs), although the Conservative Party has vowed to use this issue during the next election.
posted by Max Soy @ 11:17 PM
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