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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / January 17, 2019 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, AM-NC, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, CTF, DJF, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, KB, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Consider youself one of us
Column: Barbara Sumner – As a child, my family saw the musical Oliver. For days after, my adopting mother hummed and sang the theme tune: Consider yourself one of us Consider yourself at home Consider yourself one of the family ….etc etc The song is a bit of an earworm. I’d forgotten it and the […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / December 1, 2018 / AM-NC, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, CTF, DJF, EMTV, EMTV News, English, Evening Report, Featured, Human Rights, Investigative journalism, Journalism Education, KB, Media, Media Freedom, MIL OSI, New Zealand, NZ Institute for Pacific Research, Open Source Intel, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Papua New Guinea, PMC Reportage, Reportage, Reports, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Media freedom in Pacific a growing challenge, says journalism academic
By Blessen Tom Pacific media freedom and ignorance of Pacific issues by mainstream media in New Zealand are growing challenges for the region, says a journalism academic “There are so many issues in the Pacific that are simply ignored by the mainstream media,” Pacific Media Centre director Professor Robie bluntly told the two-day Oceans and […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / November 23, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, AM-NC, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, CTF, DJF, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, KB, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Strange fruit
Column: Barbara Sumner – There have always been inconsistencies in my birth story. The dates, the people involved, the actual circumstances. All missing, suspect or manufactured. As an adopted person I have no legal right to know anything other than the story my adopting parents chose to tell. So I decided to challenge that. I […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / November 15, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, AM-NC, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, CTF, DJF, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, KB, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: In the blood
Column: Barbara Sumner – The Gallows Bird is a historical trilogy I have coming out next year. In it, we meet Mr Fingleston, a silk merchant and tailor. Mr Fingleston visited me in the early hours. I described as an ivy bush of a man, small and messy with a moustache drooping below his chin. […]
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