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Articles by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne
OPINION: Foreign values misunderstood, misrepresented as our own
Sunday 28 March 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Mata kite Mata, kanohi kite kanohi – nothing comes as intimate or as powerful as the face to face meetings between, families, friends, or foes, and that moment when you greet. Be it a shaking of hands and pat on the back or high five hand slap, or the powerfully moving gesture of the hongi.
The trial of public opinion
Saturday 20 March 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Ultimately, we stand before the judgement of public opinion and ultimately a Judge that will judge us on our life, our thoughts and our decisions and then it won’t matter how much money we have or the position we hold.
The will of the people ‘should drive change’
Saturday 13 March 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Tolerance is like a gate that swings open and closed and through that gate we allow people, behaviours, actions, thoughts and ideas, writes Thomas Wynne.
As you sow so shall you reap
Saturday 6 March 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Unless someone like you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.
Defining moments
Saturday 27 February 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
We should know by now that life is defined by moments and especially those we didn’t see coming.
‘Our greatest export shouldn’t be our people’
Saturday 20 February 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Our people should not be our greatest export and a government that wants to change this will have to address minimum wage and the rights of employees.
United we stand, divided we fall
Saturday 13 February 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The tools of unity are not leverage or self-interest, nor are they arrogance and pride, because all of these will split a country, a family, a region into parts they may never heal again or come together.
Silence in the face of evil
Saturday 6 February 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Do we have a stomach for horrific crimes committed by someone in leadership, be it civil society, government or the church, asks Thomas Wynne in his weekly column.
Reaching our destinations
Saturday 30 January 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
With now a month of sailing into 2021 behind us, we can look back at 2020 with differing eyes as it fades across the horizon of life’s experiences, slowly slipping out of view but its experiences challenges and memories we take with us.
‘Our reliance on New Zealand’
Saturday 16 January 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
It is a watershed moment for both New Zealand and the Cook Islands that one-way quarantine free travel will begin, writes Thomas Wynne.
OPINION: Silence in unhealthy democracies
Saturday 9 January 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Public scrutiny of public decisions that involve the public’s wellbeing and are paid for by the public purse should be welcomed and not defended as if the scrutiny of this decision was a personal attack, Thomas Wynne writes.
OPINION: Adapting to a changing world
Saturday 2 January 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Cook Islanders are survivors and the innate ability to adapt to any situation, is what will get us through, writes Thomas Wynne.
OPINION: From the crib to the cross
Saturday 26 December 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Jesus understood that leadership was not a position or a title, that in fact it was an action and an example, writes Thomas Wynne
OPINION: The season of change is coming
Saturday 19 December 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
We should be concerned with the sound of good capable people resigning and leaving our shores not to return, and of the call for us all to tighten our belts, while the few fill their bellies, writes Thomas Wynne.
Living away from home
Saturday 5 December 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
To say I have missed home is an understatement, in fact I don’t think there are words in the English language that capture the emptiness we all feel, those 80,000 of us who live in New Zealand but call the Cook Islands home. By Thomas Wynne.
OPINION ‘Corruption is never bold; it is always subtle’
Saturday 28 November 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
We should never be silent when those in power abuse that power for their own benefit, writes Thomas Wynne.
OPINION: The perils of political appointments
Saturday 21 November 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Political appointments damage not only the integrity of our democracy but also the integrity of whichever Ministry they work in, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
