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HOME GONE AWAY

Could you please find out what TVNZ is doing with the scheduling of Home and Away? It is usually a half-hour Monday to Friday at 5.30pm, but disappears after April 3. Some clarification would be much appreciated. I am tired of random changes to programming without any explanations.

Jocelyn Neutze

Talkback responds: TVNZ informs us that Home and Away is taking a break in Australia for the Commonwealth Games, and as we are close behind, we follow suit.

MOVING DOCO

Thank you to Stan Walker, his whānau and the team who recorded his battle with cancer caused by the mutant CDH1 gene ( Stan, Three, March 25). The documentary was moving and informative.

As I write this, I am listening to Stan’s first album following his achievements on Australian Idol 10 years ago. His voice is God-given and he shares his talent with all of us. May he fully recover and continue to give us

pleasure with his songs.

Diana Simpson (Great Barrier Island)

Talkback responds: Stan is available online at tinyurl. com/NZLStan.

SKY’S THE LIMIT

I agree with Tim Brown and Greer Robertson-Brown ( Talkback, March 31) about Sky’s new packages. The basic package includes Freeview channels TVNZ 1 and 2, Three and Prime, etc; you have to pay for this to get sport.

If Sky wishes to retain customers, it needs to learn the meaning of service. In trying to contact it, I could not speak to a person as promised. I was told to go to a website, then cut off.

This happened 12 times.

The next day I got through, but had to wait 30 minutes to speak to someone. No wonder it is losing customers.

John Bray (Howick) OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING

I read with disbelief Sheryl White trying to justify the objectification of males by presenting an argument based on power structures and partriarchy ( Talkback, April 7).

You can’t have it both ways: either the objectification of all people, regardless of gender, is acceptable or it is not.

To suggest men can be objectified because of their perceived power within society and that this is an acceptable part of satire is disingenuous in the extreme and devalues the conversations about how to reduce harassment and improve safety for all of us.

Ray Calver (Grey Lynn, Auckland)