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Ruta Mave: Passport plan leaves Cook Islands vulnerable and isolated

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:11:00 +0000

Prime Minister Mark Brown’s passport proposal presents as more personal than from the people. He sounds like a spoilt teenager who has graduated from his ‘L’ plate to a full driver’s licence, declaring to his parents that he is all grown up now, and wants to be independent, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: A call for peace and justice this Christmas

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:20:28 +0000

It is the eve of Christmas eve, where shopping for last minute Santa presents, food and drinks intensity is creeping to stratospheric proportions, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: The ‘hypocrisy’ of a Christian state

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:52:22 +0000

Hypocrisy is alive and well in the unofficial Christian state of Crook Islands, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: White ribbon day is now

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:00:23 +0000

Anger is a sign of guilt. If you ask your partner if they are cheating on you and they explode in anger yelling, accusations and blaming you as having a problem without a definite reply, it’s often because they are guilty, writes Ruth Mave.

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Ruta Mave: The fading virtue of loyalty

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:22:59 +0000

As I sit down to write this column, I ask myself what is loyalty? What does it really mean to people and do we have any anymore? Ruta Mave writes.

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Ruta Mave: Questioning the legality of another’s belief

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:45:23 +0000

Everyone just wants to live a life of mundane tasks and group socialisation. They want to wake up and interact with family and pets. Go to work or school, complete tasks of growth challenge or wage earning, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: Modern pentathlon, a way to add a cross training aspect

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:43:28 +0000

Salam Alaykum which means peace be upon you all the way from Saudia Arabia. After 35 hours of flights travel and transit times I made it to my destination of Riyadh the site of the original capital city of the first state of Saudia Arabia over three hundred years ago, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: A mixture of mad, sad and glad

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:41:15 +0000

Red White and Blue Americans have voted and there was a mixture of mad sad and glad reactions within and outside of the ‘land of the free’ - unless you are an immigrant, coloured or pregnant or so it appears from the outside looking in.

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Ruta Mave: Call for proper caring for elderly

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:51:34 +0000

Will anyone address the elephant in the room? asks columnist Ruth Mave. And will government tax pensioners again? Mave writes.

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Ruta Mave: Proposed Cook Islands passport and water woes

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:07:48 +0000

My nana used to say people got a brown arm from their elbow down from s#*t stirring, and dangerous expert ones were brown up to their armpits, Ruta Mave writes.

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