The Hand Mirror

As a little girl growing up I briefly hated Helen Clark because I realised she would likely be NZ's first female prime minister and beat...

Last night I was excited to go and see Helen Clark speak at the University of Auckland on the Role of the Rule of Law and Access to Justic...

as i wrote on my own blog yesterday, i spent the late afternoon/evening watching the US election results come in with a group of friends, al...

for those following the presidential elections in america, you will know that the big thing this year (well ok, the second biggest thing, th...

via the ever-wonderful ruth desouza , this is really worth listening to.  while i wouldn't agree with everything she says, i think she ...

Minister of Women's Affairs Jo Goodhew has been giving a "report card" over the last few days to the United Nations on how we...

i know this is an old story now, but i just haven't managed to get around to writing about it til now.  there was a bit of a furore when...

i've been meaning to write a post about mona eltahawy's article published in foreign policy , entitled " why do they hate us ...

a must-read piece , via blue milk, on the value of work: When performed by married women in their own homes, domestic labor is work—diffi...

What are "boat people"? A.  People who like boats (in the manner of "cat people" or "dog people") B.  Peop...

I'm super happy to be able to kill two birds with one stone and write a post that serves as not only a suffrage day post but also part o...

it's september the 11th again, and ten years on from the attack on the various targets in the unites states. every year we have the rem...

generally i tend not to write about indian politics, because i don't follow what's happening there and don't even really underst...

On the outskirts of Honiara, quite a drive off the main road, through abandoned cacao plantations and out by the ocean sits the Christian Ca...

as with everyone else, i'm absolutely gutted about the news in norway. it's appalling attack and a terrible tragedy for the people ...

I had known that Slutwalk is an international movement but it made me happy the other day when I saw a friend's comments on Facebook abo...

got this via email about developments in saudi arabia: As election centers across Saudi Arabia opened on April 23 for voters to register f...

Sarah nursed her daughter’s child on an empty breast as we sat together in a grubby hospital consulting room. Her daughter looked on with ex...

here is a link to the video of my spot on Q & A. i don't know how to embed it so you'll have to watch on the tvnz site. here...

as per a request from deborah, i'm cross-posting this piece from my own blog. i feel a little nervous about putting up certain issues ...