The Life Story of Anne Frank “Let Me Be Myself”

The Life Story of Anne Frank – “Let Me Be Myself” is an exhibition showing at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts Galleries from 12 January 2023.

There’s more to know about the story of Anne Frank!

The new Anne Frank exhibition is particularly moving. Photos, objects, and text and film are used to inform you about the life of Anne Frank and the Holocaust.

There are new and revealing stories in this exhibition!

You will come away with a much better understanding of this aspiring young woman. From the entries in the Anne Frank diary you will see Anne Frank as she saw herself. You will also see her in the context of the larger tragedy that was the Holocaust. This international touring exhibition reaches out to young people especially, encouraging them to explore broader issues of prejudice and discrimination that still permeate societies today.

The Academy thanks the Embassy of France, the Delegation of the European Union to New Zealand, and the Federal German Republic for supporting this exhibition.

Tickets available through Eventbrite or at the door:

Entry per person: $7.50

(Children under 12 years $5) NZAFA members: $5

[The Academy is offering a 25% discount off the annual subscription to be a Friend of the Academy Galleries to all attendees of Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank. Receive notices of upcoming events and exhibitions, and opportunities to join exclusive viewings and workshops] especially child poverty and youth offending, there has been improvement. It’s still not rosy reading, but what it does show is that we can make a difference if we focus on improving things, and resource these initiatives. runoff and other material ending up in our harbours, especially the Porirua harbour in the case of development north of Johnsonville and Newlands. The Wellington City Council are concerned that the existing infrastructure cannot handle the pressure it comes under when new housing areas are developed. Existing infrastructure is aging and needs upgrading across our city, as evidenced by recent pipe failures. An advantage of intensification of existing areas means more people, therefore more ratepayers to pay for those upgrades.

As we watch our fellow New Zealanders coping with yet another major weather event of the sort never experienced before, I think that even the most ardent climate change deniers will now be agreeing we need to take meaningful action to mitigate and reverse it.

I recently hosted a meeting which included local property developers and representatives from the City and Regional Councils. The background for the meeting was the need to ensure all people involved in providing more housing in our electorate, whether it be those building them or those regulating and permitting that building, understand the issues which govern the ability to build the houses everyone agrees we need.

There are essentially two types of development; greenfields and brownfields. Greenfields means building on currently undeveloped land, typically ex farmland on the edges of current urban areas, where infrastructure like sewers, water supply and other essential services don’t exist are usually built by the developer.

Arguments that New Zealand is too small to make a difference didn’t stop us participating in the World Wars and being part of all sorts of international aid efforts, as we are currently in Turkey and Syria following that devastating earthquake. We all need to do our bit, and every bit helps. It is a similar case with child poverty and other factors which impact heavily on those in the lower socio-economic sector.

Brownfields development means rebuilding on existing sites, and there has been considerable discussion in recent times around how much intensification should be allowed in existing suburbs, especially changing of height limits to allow for more apartments.

Developers of course need to make a profit, and wish to keep their compliance costs as low as possible. Many believe the Resource Management Act is too cumbersome. We as government for our part have undertaken to rewrite that act.

I mention both this report and climate change together, to show that if we accept something is an issue, like housing, like climate, like child poverty, and we set about doing something about it, we can make improvements. The report notes housing availability has improved due to the large numbers of houses being built.

The feedback was good, but the success will be when there are sufficient affordable houses to meetdemand. That is certainly my goal as your MP.

The Salvation Army annually produces a report on the state of the nation socially, and I was fortunate to attend this year’s launch. Their evidence shows that on many measures,

Both have their advantages and disadvantages; the Regional Council in particular see their role to prevent more

So when we hear commentators pooh-poohing plans to reduce emissions, or poverty, know that it is possible to make a difference. We can’t just do nothing, either about the causes of the problems, or the effects of them.

That, and of course having a vibrant and functioning Johnsonville Shopping Centre we can all be proud of.

That’s why we will be pulling out all stops to help the victims of the latest storms in the North Island.

There’s plenty to be getting on with.