Written By: - Date published: 9:02 am, December 4th, 2015 - 12 comments
It was suggested in Parliament that SERCO’s first place position on the Prison Performance Table had been the result of Lotu-Iiga and his department having had the wool pulled over their eyes.
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, December 3rd, 2015 - 156 comments
The Salvation Army, and not the Government, has pointed out some very worrying trends relating to home ownership in New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, December 3rd, 2015 - 17 comments
McClay said he could not answer the specific question because he had “been advised” no such data exists.
How convenient.
Written By: - Date published: 12:48 pm, December 2nd, 2015 - 103 comments
Standard Exclusive:
Te Reo Putake interviews one of the first batch of deportees from Australia under the Liberal Government’s hardline approach to Kiwis who serve jail time in the lucky country.
Written By: - Date published: 9:23 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 17 comments
Some time today, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, John Key, will be wandering around the hallways of his Paris hotel in his underpants. Or maybe his swimming togs.
Written By: - Date published: 7:56 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 19 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 7:03 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 132 comments
Yesterday the police raided the home of a 3 News journalist. This seems to be quite a trend in the Brighter Future.
Written By: - Date published: 10:12 am, December 1st, 2015 - 111 comments
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?
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, December 1st, 2015 - 32 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 8:24 am, December 1st, 2015 - 67 comments
New Zealand provides over $80m in production subsidies for fossil fuel industries.
Written By: - Date published: 7:39 am, December 1st, 2015 - 61 comments
I’ve just finished reading all the comments on the reshuffle thread. It gave me an idea. Post here YOUR rankings of the top 20 Labour Party MPs, the role you would give them and WHY. So that is 3 criteria for posting Rank the top 20 of current Labour Party MPs; and The Role […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:24 am, November 29th, 2015 - 21 comments
Why are the so called leaders meeting at COP21 so afraid of public demonstrations? Let the people have their say…
Written By: - Date published: 7:09 am, November 29th, 2015 - 22 comments
About time the Police got around to becoming a “very evidence based” service. Building great relationships with academia is a sensible way to start.
Written By: - Date published: 8:49 pm, November 27th, 2015 - 117 comments
Assuming the Russian jet did enter Turkish airspace for 17s, was there really no recourse for Turkey other than using lethal force?
Written By: - Date published: 2:16 pm, November 27th, 2015 - 2 comments
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.”
Written By: - Date published: 7:33 am, November 27th, 2015 - 38 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, November 26th, 2015 - 46 comments
The answer is at least one.
Written By: - Date published: 1:17 pm, November 25th, 2015 - 25 comments
Police censorship of research is causing widespread outrage today. Well done to Dr Gilbert and The Herald for bringing it all to light.
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, November 25th, 2015 - 91 comments
A recent surge in the level of systemic criminality, thuggery, and general incompetence which now defines the New Zealand Police Force.
Written By: - Date published: 1:30 pm, November 24th, 2015 - 28 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 12:32 pm, November 21st, 2015 - 123 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 7:34 am, November 21st, 2015 - 135 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 11:56 am, November 20th, 2015 - 27 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, November 20th, 2015 - 43 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 9:45 am, November 20th, 2015 - 12 comments
Saturday in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Written By: - Date published: 8:32 am, November 19th, 2015 - 160 comments
“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.
Written By: - Date published: 4:10 pm, November 18th, 2015 - 26 comments
Ad provides some thoughts on the death of Jonah Lomu.
Written By: - Date published: 12:55 pm, November 18th, 2015 - 75 comments
RNZ covered a Salvation Army report on housing this morning. These figures are a national disgrace.
Written By: - Date published: 9:10 am, November 18th, 2015 - 53 comments
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.
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, November 15th, 2015 - 24 comments
David Slack is on fire this morning with his take on our craven human rights record – in the form of imagined NCEA questions.
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