Giovanni Tiso
Giovanni Tiso is a writer and translator based in Wellington. He is a regular contributor to the Australian literary journal Overland, and his blog Bat Bean Beam earned him a nomination as best blogger at the 2014 Canon Media Awards – won, famously, by Whaleoil. Giovanni was born in Milan in 1971.
Politics
Oct 14, 2016
The Miramar Central scandal lays bare a cavalier culture at the Ministry of Education
A Wellington school's use of a 'seclusion room' to isolate autistic children has been dismissed by officials as a sorry aberration. But the school cell speaks to a much bigger problem with special education in New Zealand, says Giovanni Tiso, the father of two children with autism.
