Cheryl Norrie
@cherylnorrie.bsky.social
Reader, writer, lover of books.
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This day of protest. And now this incredible gathering of voices speaking on behalf of the land: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/23/p...
Poetry Shelf Protest series: ‘Reading Poetry to Rare Lizards’ – Poetry in Defence of the Environment
Summit, Thomson Gorge Road (looking towards Mount Aspiring). Photo: Gregory O’Brien, October 2025 Backcountry Now and everthe mountain river. A fantail flits.Moss over branch,the trees hurry.…
nzpoetryshelf.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This day of protest. And now this incredible gathering of voices speaking on behalf of the land: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/23/p...
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Vaping Product Warning Issued
www.health.govt.nz/news/vaping-...
www.health.govt.nz/news/vaping-...
Vaping product warning issued
The Ministry of Health has issued a public warning about the Suntree - Vanilla Cream (30ml) vaping product as it contains too much of a chemical associated with a lung injury called ‘popcorn lung’.
www.health.govt.nz
July 21, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Vaping Product Warning Issued
www.health.govt.nz/news/vaping-...
www.health.govt.nz/news/vaping-...
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#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...
www.beehive.govt.nz
May 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...
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Just before the author Ryan Holiday was scheduled to deliver a lecture at the U.S. Naval Academy, he was asked not to mention the recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from the campus library. Holiday refused, and the talk was canceled. This is the story he was going to tell.
Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship
How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Just before the author Ryan Holiday was scheduled to deliver a lecture at the U.S. Naval Academy, he was asked not to mention the recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from the campus library. Holiday refused, and the talk was canceled. This is the story he was going to tell.
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A study led by the University of Otago, Wellington – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Pōneke has found the verbal and mental abuse of female Members of Parliament in Aotearoa to be disturbingly commonplace. Read more here: www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...
Abuse of NZ female MPs commonplace, researchers find
Female Members of Parliament in New Zealand are being assaulted with weapons, threatened with rape and subjected to death threats in the course of their work, a study led by the University of Otago, W...
www.otago.ac.nz
April 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A study led by the University of Otago, Wellington – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Pōneke has found the verbal and mental abuse of female Members of Parliament in Aotearoa to be disturbingly commonplace. Read more here: www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...
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Excellent Newsroom commentary from Jude Ball and Janet Hoek of ASPIRE Aotearoa on the wider implications of the highly suspect decision-making process which led to RELX being chosen to supply vapes to cessation services in NZ. newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/14/t...
Tobacco decision transparency a matter of life or death
From Otago University - Opinion: With several lines of evidence pointing to possible tobacco and vape industry interference in Government, alarm bells are ringing, write Dr Jude Ball and Janet Hoek.
newsroom.co.nz
February 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Excellent Newsroom commentary from Jude Ball and Janet Hoek of ASPIRE Aotearoa on the wider implications of the highly suspect decision-making process which led to RELX being chosen to supply vapes to cessation services in NZ. newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/14/t...
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Sam Neill weighs in on the proposed demolition of the City to Sea bridge
wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=166587
wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=166587
Bridge demolition “shameful vandalism”
Open letter from Sam Neill The proposed demolition of the City to Sea bridge would be an utterly shameful piece of vandalism. Civic Square is an invaluable focus, the very heart of perhaps the bes...
wellington.scoop.co.nz
December 16, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Sam Neill weighs in on the proposed demolition of the City to Sea bridge
wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=166587
wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=166587
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Good morning / evening / afternoon - this essay on what it means to dismantle a University and whittle the humanities is both beautifully written and important - please read thespinoff.co.nz/books/14-12-...
Wasteland: A response to a university restructure
'For its purposes we were not people, just dollar amounts representing the salary that might be returned to the university’s coffers once we no longer worked there.'
thespinoff.co.nz
December 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Good morning / evening / afternoon - this essay on what it means to dismantle a University and whittle the humanities is both beautifully written and important - please read thespinoff.co.nz/books/14-12-...
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Employees are being marched back to the office. But why? | Eva Wiseman
Employees are being marched back to the office. But why? | Eva Wiseman
The pandemic gave us a valuable opportunity to change our ways, yet many workplaces have rebuffed the lesson
When I work in the office (the canal flashing down to my left, to my right a desk of conversations that veer between fascinating and deadly, it…
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Employees are being marched back to the office. But why? | Eva Wiseman
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Info for tomorrow's hīkoi in Te Whanganui-a-Tara for anyone who wants it
November 17, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Info for tomorrow's hīkoi in Te Whanganui-a-Tara for anyone who wants it
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My guests and I arrived in Churchill just in time to see Conservation airlift a bear from the polar bear jail. Problem bears are held in the facility until they can be relocated up the coast away from people. The bear is sedated and will wake up in its new home to head out on the bay when it freezes
November 3, 2024 at 2:31 AM
My guests and I arrived in Churchill just in time to see Conservation airlift a bear from the polar bear jail. Problem bears are held in the facility until they can be relocated up the coast away from people. The bear is sedated and will wake up in its new home to head out on the bay when it freezes
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CDN issue. Images affected. Working on it
October 27, 2024 at 12:16 AM
CDN issue. Images affected. Working on it
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March 25, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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Have whānau heading to uni/polytech soon? Make sure they know they can get free meningococcal B and (if it's their first time in halls/flatting) ACWY vaccines. But only til 28 Feb so get in now! Let's boot this awful and potentially fatal disease off our campuses this year
January 24, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Have whānau heading to uni/polytech soon? Make sure they know they can get free meningococcal B and (if it's their first time in halls/flatting) ACWY vaccines. But only til 28 Feb so get in now! Let's boot this awful and potentially fatal disease off our campuses this year
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