The Christchurch Civic Creche Case
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	The Press May 14 2007 Name in history Letter to the Editor by John Blumsky, Waikuku Beach The name of Joe Karam, alongside that of Pat Booth, will be forever etched in the social history of this country. That no champion has arrived for Peter Ellis is due, I suggest, to our immaturity in coping with creche circumstances, our immaturity in coping with Ellis himself and the realisation that ultimately the challenge lies against the State. We should never forget Joe Karam’s ironic comment: “We trumpet that we live in the least corrupt society in the world.”