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My personal history of Portobello Marine Laboratory

My personal history based on spending time at Portobello Marine Laboratory near Dunedin as a teenager in the 1970’s. Continue reading

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Aramoana to Dunedin Railway Station – forty plus years of the protest movement in Aotearoa

We used to have a successful protest movement in New Zealand. Why don’t we have one anymore? Continue reading

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What’s my Name? Tagging Culture and Law Enforcement in Wellington, New Zealand (2016)

The old male bear reared up on its hind legs and sank its claws deep into the pine tree. Then he raked them sharply down the trunk with a loud splintering noise. Next he sat on his haunches and sniffed … Continue reading

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Graffiti to Street Art – A Short History

There seems to be a strong impulse in human beings to leave their mark. To tell the world you were here. Unlike other animals we know we’re going to die and leaving some sort of physical mark behind  is one … Continue reading

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