Trash Talk

Viewpoint: Trash Talk Katie Monteith Board Member Published June 2018 I want to talk some trash right now. I’m talking about the kind of trash we used to export to China to be recycled. On 1 January of this year, this practice was banned due to the Chinese government...

Mental Health

Viewpoint Teresa Housel Newsletter Editor Published October 2018 When I was a professor at a tertiary institution in Michigan, I lived in a neighbourhood close to the university’s campus. I paused many times in front of our living room window to look out at the...

Gender

Viewpoint Stephanie Brockman Manager Published December 2019 The Lower Hutt Women’s Centre is a women-only centre. People like it being women-only for many reasons. In our last two-yearly surveys, some of the comments supporting the women-only space were: It is a safe...

Institutional Abuse

 Viewpoint Published March 2019 20 Join Us By Stephanie Brockman, LHWC Manager Last week I was looking on the Net for something and a newsflash came up: “Nuns were made to be sex slaves”. Then, as I read further on, the Pope was recorded as saying, “Yes, it is true....

Breastscreening

 By Teresa Heinz Housel, LHWC Newsletter Editor Published December 2018 Having grown up in the United States, one of the benefits that I appreciate most about New Zealand’s health care system is the access to public health services. Some family members have managed...
Institutional Abuse

Institutional Abuse

Written by Stephanie Brockman March  2019 Institutional Abuse   Last week I was looking on the Net for something and a newsflash came up: “Nuns were made to be sex slaves”.  Then, as I read further on, the Pope was recorded as saying, “Yes, it is true. An order in...