Eamon Sloan

  Wrapping Up the Posie Parker case, We hope I’m a regular watcher of Sky News Australia. Not that I watch umpteen hours a day. There is a Sunday morning panel show, named Outsiders, three presenters. Their title is a backhanded compliment to the opposition ABC Australia programme named Insiders. Outsiders covered the issue from both Australian and New Zealand perspectives. They were as appalled as could be over the Auckland nonsense. There was a point raised which some of us might not have fully considered. It was that some sections of the Australian lesbian community at least did not wish to be associated in any way with the trans-activists. Just in passing, I came across a Daily Mail UK article about an employment dispute involving an arts officer who was hounded out of her job after advocating for both freedom of speech and for the rights of an LGB group. Rather a complicated story. The LGB group in the UK does not want to associate with trans-activists. The LGB group was...

  Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull – Auck rally Update In the post previous to this I addressed some remarks to Michael Wood (Minister of Immigration). One of those points was that the language in his press statement would likely encourage more of the type of action seen in Melbourne. That proved to be the case and the Auckland action was worse than ever anticipated. It is out there now for all the world to witness. The very worst of the radical trans-gays was on display as the ugly side of New Zealand, encouraged by many of our politicians. Does New Zealand want to be defined by a group, or groups, which have a serious intellect problem? The public discourse, to use a technical title, is no longer a discourse but a slime covered playground for a rabble of thugs and sex-crazed buffoons. Get that part of the name calling out of the way first. Some of our politicians and others have not covered themselves in glory. In terms of glory though some are positively drooling over the outcome ...

  Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull and Michael Wood Michael Wood (Minister of Immigration) to my mind has struck some very sour notes in his reactions to the Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull affair. I emailed him with a few thoughts regarding his NZ Herald press statement. Those thoughts are below this intro. I relied on Sky News Australia for the “closer to home” or “on the ground” detail about the Melbourne meeting. Local coverage here was mainly a slanted and out of context mish-mash. Here I have fired more than a few shots at Michael Wood and Labour. What do I think of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull? She comes across as being totally genuine but maybe lacking some intellectual heft. A little naïve possibly but committed all the same. She could do with backup from some of women’s better known advocates. I can’t name any myself but I’m sure they are out there. I don’t expect to receive a considered reply from Mr Wood. Apart from the automated email receipt which has already appeared - instantl...