by Stella Coram | Sep 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
This post was intended to include documentation of evidence in support of the Waitangi (Wai) Claim 2197. Unfortunately, the file is way too big and could not be uploaded to the website. In light of this, I can only offer to send you file on request.
by Stella Coram | Sep 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Stones of 'Reti' and Toa' is in essence about the relationship between bloodlines and boundaries and how this was established going back to mythology of the cosmos. The Stones of Reti and Toa 1
by Stella Coram | Sep 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
This will be the last post on my website. It represents the culmination of years of thinking around what constitutes justice or redress in the aftermath of breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi for Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand. I argue that the Waitangi Tribunal, which is tasked with preparing claimants to go to [...]
by Stella Coram | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s quite simply really. Harry does not like playing second fiddle to his brother William and neither does Meghan Markle to Kate Middleton. They have a score of grievances – imagined or real – to justify airing their accusations publicly of which they must surely appreciate could be damaging to the reputation of the British [...]
by Stella Coram | Oct 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
To know and not do, is to not yet know (Confucius) Race-ism is the elephant in the room few of western mainstream culture or society dare to mention except perhaps when speaking of the past – of history – not the present. To speak of race nowadays is okay when celebrating black achievements in sport [...]
by Stella Coram | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Chip Le Grand writes “While lockdowns were aimed to protect at-risk sectors of the community, they also created new vulnerabilities as shown by the spike in eating disorders among young people” (Running on empty, The Age Weekend Magazine, August 20 2022, an edited extract from his book Lockdown (published by Monash, 2022). He continues: “young people have missed [...]
by Stella Coram | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Race, racism, racialisation and denialism within Australian culture and society To talk about race and racism is fraught because it invariably means to risk getting peoples’ shackles up warranting a quick rebuke. As prickly subject matter, they touch a nerve to trigger denial, which I know from experience. In 2008, I submitted a letter to [...]
by Stella Coram | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Ideas do not exist separately from language…” Grundrisse, Karl Marx. Is it just me? In public discourse on employment matters, members of the workforce are typically or increasingly referred to as workers. Why the simplification? Is it too hard to find another turn of phrase to describe people who undertake paid work? Where did this [...]
by Stella Coram | Jan 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
To my one or two 'followers'! Hello for the last time in 2021 and the first time in 2022. Another bummer year. Never mind, on we go... Since I have been banging on all year (last year) about the perils of not getting health measures right in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, why stop now [...]
by Stella Coram | Sep 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Stella Coram August 28, 2021 I begin by declaring my bias if not gleaned by the heading. I agree on the need for lockdown. One could be forgiven for thinking that ‘living with Covid-19’ is the only option available. As a key policy framework for nations with vaccination rates in the order of 70%, and [...]
