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Reposted from Polity. Over the weekend John Armstrong had a column about youth voter turnout in the upcoming election. Much of the material was familiar – young people don’t vote so much – nobody talks their language, yo! – parties are Trying Very Hard, but they…
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You know the large German Industrialist who gave Auckland $500,000 for a fireworks display and John Banks $50,000 for his Mayoral campaign? The man whose house was raided by helicopter riding armed police for the heinous offence of breaching copyright? The man who the Government has been…
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Reposted from Polity. Last week, new information became public about potential stat-juking by our Police. The practice of reclassifying hundreds of "burglaries", which appear in the crime statistics, as "incidents", which do not, has the effect of artificially reducing the apparent crime rate. This practice…
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This past week has seen both mainstream media and political blogs of all persuasions, opine on the reversal of the burden of proof in sexual offence cases, based primarily on Andrew Little’s sound bites (or somewhat unsound bites) on Labour’s Policy “Eliminating Violence Against Women…
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I am really sorry to see the return of the Worm this election. And even more sorry to see the great institution of Scoop involved in its return. It's bad enough we have way more polling than we need, interfering with democratic process. Now we…
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So Palestine is in the news again. Ever since the end of the second war and the creation of the Israeli state the Middle East has experienced difficulties. The creation of the state of Israel over part of what was previously the state of Palestine has made…
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