All Blacks theme #2: God Defend The All Blacks

Back during the first AoNZ 2020 lockdown Paul Brislen, comms person and NZ Twitter personality, answered a question that a lot were asking. His answer goes a long way to also answering why I ask seemingly simple questions in meetings, especially when asking the the definition of an acronym that I know already As is the nature of Twitter Pauls answer was a thread over 12 tweets, I've pulled them all together. "Why do journalists ask stupid questions?" by @paulbrislen, Apr 8 2020 There's a bit of misunderstanding out there about why journalists ask stupid questions - I think stemming from the press conferences and seeing the sausage get made. I'd like to address that if I may. Sometimes journalists ask stupid questions because they're stupid. This is usually not the case but can happen. Usually they ask stupid questions to get the ANSWER to the stupid question on tape or film or on record. This is important. They need to get it on the record because it often do

Ollie ( @thathumbleman ) camped outside Parliament for months quietly advocating the Aotearoa New Zealand Parliament declare a climate emergency. After 100 days, and setting a record as the longest running protest outside Parliament in New Zealand's history, he moved to Fridays only coz, family! CHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green) : I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek leave to move a motion without notice and without debate to acknowledge 100 days of Ollie Langridge standing on Parliament's lawn, calling on this House to declare a climate emergency. source: Points of Order — Ollie Langridge—Climate Emergency Protest, 100 Days [Hansard (Debates)] On the 23rd of August School Strike NZ will join Ollie Langridge in his 100th day of sitting outside of New Zealand Parliament calling for the government to declare a climate emergency. source: Scoop - School Strike 4 Climate NZ stands with Ollie By: School Strike 4 Climate It was an honour to stand alongside him on the very few lunchtime

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