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Today on The Spinoff: Anna Rawhiti-Connell traverses the oceanic divide on Stephen Colbert’s Kate Middleton monologue. Plus: The War for Wellington is won, and the war against sparrows continues.
But first: Five years since the Christchurch terror attacks, are our online spaces any safer?
Anjum Rahman: “How long is five years? It’s enough time for a newborn to grow into a school-aged child, learning language and movement in those intervening years. It’s enough time for a sapling to grow a good canopy, crown and shade. And yet. Not enough time to recover, to forget, to carry on as if nothing had happened. We cannot get over it.
The fifth anniversary of the Christchurch mosques attack is a time to remember, a time to take stock, a time to keep doing the mahi to protect our future.”
Joel MacManus: How housing won the war
Is poisoning pesky sparrows the right way to get rid of them?
The oceanic divide on Stephen Colbert’s Kate Middleton monologue
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