DavidSlack, AucklandFor Bullshit, Backlash and BleedingHearts

A Confused Rosetta Stone software Person's Guide to the Great Race Row. Devonport speech writer and columnist David Slack was theauthor of the Treaty Quiz which achieved wide currency onthe internet earlier this year. On the strength of it,Penguin Books asked him to write a book, which they describeas "At last, the book that digs behind the slogans, myths,mudslinging and misconceptions on ALL sides of the currentTreaty and race debate to explain exactly where we are, howwe got here and where we're heading". It is a racy, easy toread commentary that teases out and backgrounds the mainissues in debate and comes to an overall optimisticconclusion about the underlying state of our racerelations.Wellington Conservancy, Department ofConservationFor the Conservation Week exhibition "GlobalEye - Worldwide Perspectives of Conservation and theEnvironment". The theme of this year's Conservation Week(2-8 August) is Conservation with Communities, and therewill be events throughout New Zealand. The WellingtonConservancy has organised an exhibition at Turnbull House,for which artists from twelve different ethnicities andcultures have been invited to create works that reflect thelinks between their cultural identity, the environment andconservation. Artists' backgrounds include Indonesian,Croatian, Colombian, Pacific, New Zealand, Iranian, Lybian,English, American and Iraqi. For more information onConservation Week activities, visit www.doc.govt.nz doc.govt.nz/ .The Rotary Club of Lincoln, CanterburyFor theinaugural Lincoln Multicultural Festival, 19 June 2004. TheLincoln Rotary Club combined with Lincoln and DistrictCommunity Care, the Lincoln Community Committee and theLincoln Business Association, to organise the festival atthe Lincoln Community Hall. Their reason: "Lincoln and theneighbouring areas house a cross Rosetta Stone Chinese section of New Zealandmulti-ethnicity: the university, research centres, schoolsand businesses bring to us the talent and diversity ofpeople from many nationalities and cultures. What a greatopportunity for Lincoln, Christchurch and Canterbury atlarge to enjoy the arts, crafts and food that many of thosecultures now offer us." There were Japanese, African,Korean, Chinese, Indian, Iranian, South African,Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Scottish stalls and an evenwider variety of entertainment (including a highly populardose of Bollywood). It was opened by Selwyn DistrictCouncil Mayor Michael McEvedy and all rounded off in thegood old Kiwi tradition of a cup of tea, savouries andcakes. The Dominion Post, WellingtonFor Ethnicity:Celebrating Wellington's Cultural Diversity. Following ameeting of ethnic groups facilitated by the WellingtonEthnic Council and Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast inearly 2002, the Dominion Post researched and published aseries of 52 articles on people from different ethnic groupsin the Wellington region. These have been collated into abook, which was launched in Wellington on 25 June.