John Key has announced an increase in funding on research into the reduction of agricultural emissions of greenhouse gasses of $20 million over four years or $5 million a year. Which is the amount the Government cut from this research two months ago.
Yesterday the police raided the home of a 3 News journalist. This seems to be quite a trend in the Brighter Future.
The Chris Cairns trial verdict seems to have surprised Kiwis. And some people don’t seem to want to accept he is not a match fixer. Are we that fooled by modern media that our usual decency and sense of fair play has deserted us?
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman said there is a voluntary regime in place for the manufacture and sale of high sugar food but where there is is self regulation it is often ignored.
Because of the danger high sugar foods potentially pose it’s important to have a regulatory body and licensing/education regime to ensure manufacturers and retailers only provide food that has healthy outcomes.
New Zealand provides over $80m in production subsidies for fossil fuel industries.
I’ve just finished reading all the comments on the reshuffle thread. It gave me an idea. Post here YOUR rankings of the top […]
Why are the so called leaders meeting at COP21 so afraid of public demonstrations? Let the people have their say…
About time the Police got around to becoming a “very evidence based” service. Building great relationships with academia is a sensible way to start.
Assuming the Russian jet did enter Turkish airspace for 17s, was there really no recourse for Turkey other than using lethal force?
I/S at No Right Turn compares the government’s treatment of two very different schools. “National’s racism and pandering to the rich pervades every aspect of policy.”
The Official Information Act is now moribund and access to information beyond its scope is granted only to a chosen few and under strict conditions.
The answer is at least one.
Police censorship of research is causing widespread outrage today. Well done to Dr Gilbert and The Herald for bringing it all to light.
A recent surge in the level of systemic criminality, thuggery, and general incompetence which now defines the New Zealand Police Force.
If this was not so tragic it would be absurd. Radio New Zealand has reported this morning that CABs are receiving referrals from Housing New Zealand of people requiring emergency housing.
Not exactly light or cheerful Saturday morning reading – but we should all read it anyway. Stuff’s (Katie Kenny & Blair Ensor) excellent special investigation on child abuse in NZ.
The delivery of the ballots in the first first flag referendum is getting a bit of attention from bored journalists. We the people don’t seem to care much though.
Donald Trump won’t rule out “tracking Muslim Americans in a database or giving them “a special form of identification that noted their religion””. Brings to mind an F word.
Cameron Slater and his associates are legal morans. This has been extensively investigated and judged on by the Court of Appeal in a judgement released yesterday. I have a wee look at it and the steaming heap of faecal matter that these idiots tried to get the judges to consume.
Saturday in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
“What differentiates the Left from the Right is the former’s fundamental rejection of the strongest human-beings’ proclivity to dominate, coerce and exploit the weakest. Without this proclivity, none of the economic and social systems elaborated by armed minorities throughout history could have endured.”
Indeed.
Ad provides some thoughts on the death of Jonah Lomu.
RNZ covered a Salvation Army report on housing this morning. These figures are a national disgrace.
Seems Ms Adams is the latest prepared to jump under a bus to save the beloved Honest John. Self interest is strong in this one.
David Slack is on fire this morning with his take on our craven human rights record – in the form of imagined NCEA questions.
The Herald seems to have accidentally deleted the online version of yesterday’s big story from Kirsty Johnson on how the government manipulates media perceptions. However could that have happened?
A National List MP has been snapped trying to heavy the Housing Ministry into funding a lift in her personal profile. Remember John Key’s ‘higher standards in Government’? Nick Smith’s Ministerial office apparently doesn’t care too much about about such trifles. Worse, the Housing Ministry has been caught trying to cover up for the Tories by redacting an OIA request. Here’s your Brighter Future, folks. Enjoy.
This petition at ActionStation is closing in on 5,000 signatures.
Previously posted at Boots Theory. Content note: discussion of sexual violence and the experience of survivors. Yesterday I did a round-up of the […]
Key and Carter have brought NZ international shame yet again. Males in a position of power using rape as a cheap political tactic and then punishing women for speaking up. Brighter Future.
New Zealand’s bloody awful parliamentary debacle.
Anarchism, past and present.
Can’t be many more important campaigns than saving the planet right? Only people power will change the current economic levers which are designed […]
Isn’t it amazing how many Ministers can’t wait to front up to the media when they are selling. But when it comes to after sale service they just don’t want to front?
The question of identity politics and Labour’s direction just never go away. But maybe we’re just thinking about it all wrong.
