Other than providing akin to slave labour mining in the goldfields, the early Chinese immigrants also were among the first to set up provisioning shops, gardens, etc, supplying other miners. Many of them later then went on to set up stores, gardens etc in the burgeoning towns & cities.

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We need to call this patriarchal violence, not family violence. ‘“rigid harmful gender norms”, including deep-seated entitlement to control a female partner, as well as colonisation, were underlying drivers of family violence in NZ’

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you know if a political party were serious, one of the FIRST things a new govt should do, under urgency, is to carve out a portion of the domestically-produced food for the nz market at nz rates.. cost +10%

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And they keep trying to tell us we have to pay what the internation market will pay. And yet we actually pay more than double. Just lazy sales people taking a large overseas order who take an entire shipment in one quick go so they can go and get a game of golf in for the afternoon.

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These must be one guy out there *really* dragging the average up

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