Stuff has reported that its opponent, the New Zealand Herald, has via its Chinese version amended stories to make them more acceptable to the Chinese Government. From Henry Cooke and Laura Walters at Stuff: The Chinese edition of the NZ Herald edited translated articles from the NZ Herald to…
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Winston Peters went to Washington last December to see VP Mike Pence and invite the US to engage more in the South-West Pacific without informing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Patrick Smellie described this apparent oversight, if that is what it was, as "deeply worrying." Even…
Imagine for a moment, you're a young person, in charge of a powerful vehicle, driving at speed, with the adrenaline pumping. Are you going to make rational decisions? Well, that's the scenario for patrol cops involved in chases. I can see why a lot of…
Poor old David Seymour and the ACT party. Becoming more and more irrelevant and facing extinction. What is it meant to do? How about being obnoxious on social media? It started off with a simple tweet suggesting that cigarette taxes had increased robberies. https://twitter.com/actparty/status/1082146129028866048 …
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In a typically weird statement this morning, Donald Trump has decided the best name for his controversial border wall is, er, 'peaches'. “This is where I ask the Democrats to come back to Washington and vote for money for the wall, the barrier. I…
Most Kiwis are in favour of legalizing Marijuana, according to a new poll reported on NewsHub.* New Zealand medicinal cannabis company Helius Therapeutics commissioned the poll. Executive director Paul Manning says it will be encouraging for the many New Zealanders who support the liberalisation of…
Answers to written questions in Parliament have a very specific role. Questions are meant to be concise and answers are meant to be provided within 6 working days. But for some time National has engaged in what can only be described as a full scale…
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The Government is in negotiations with National to see if a consensus can be reached on climate change policy. Judging by this recent contribution by Todd Muller published in Stuff the chances are not good. He starts off with a chip at Generation Zero, why I am…
Overnight, Theresa May's Government lost yet another important Brexit vote. This time, the Government failed to defeat an amendment to its own proposed process for next week's Brexit vote. Theresa May will now be required to present MPs with a new Brexit plan within three…
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President Trump is preparing the ground to use the State of the Union address to declare that the Congress delaying funding of the wall on the Mexican-U.S. boundary is a national emergency. The emergency President Trump is facing is the emergency to his own Presidency.…
Donald Trump does not do things by halves. He is now into week 2 of the US Government shut down and if it lasts until the weekend will be the bigliest US Goverment shutdown ever. The reasons for the shut down are pretty strange. Donald…
On the remote chance that Senator Elizabeth Warren makes it to be Presidential contender in 2020, she’s set out some foreign policy thoughts in the respected journal Foreign Affairs. I’m going to pick out some quotes and have a stab at their relevance to New…
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I'm rather fond of Russell Brand. Yes, he can be a bit precious and he overuses the word snide, but mostly he's a good bloke. This video, released a few minutes ago, is about New Year's resolutions and how to turn them into personal revolutions.…
The CTU has released the results of its recent cost of living and income survey and the results are crystal clear. The results are in for the CTU Together 2019 cost of living and income survey and it is clear that urgent change is needed…
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One of the weirdest episodes in the history of Wikileaks is playing out right now. The anti-democracy organisation, who are too chicken to challenge capital but are paid to lower trust in state institutions, have sent a group of media outlets a list of 140…
Summer is the season for music festivals, and kids doing what they have done for ever, experimenting with stuff. Occasionally the results are catastrophic as a young person gets their life traumatically shortened either through a drug overdose or because they have tried a dodgy…
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In the MMP environment friends are all important. John Key knew this. That is why he put so much effort into supporting ACT and the Maori Party. ACT gave and gives the right an extra seat in Parliament. It is now that unpopular it seriously…
Since I got back from scooter laden Singapore in mid-November, I've been looking at the Lime scooter experiment in Auckland. I have to say that it has been interesting seeing their use go deeply into the culture of the central Auckland area that I inhabit.…
