Cameron Slater is wanting to land a blow for justice and the freedom of expression by protecting the right of people to receive money from American Corporations while advocating for the mass murder of others who hold a certain religious belief. Yep the crazy is especially strong…
If you have had an OIA experience with any of the following agencies take the time now to complete this online survey Survey 1 - Review agencies This survey asks about your experiences of making requests to the 12 agencies that the Chief Ombudsman…
A series of stories in this morning's media suggests that the brighter future we were promised by National is only happening for the few. Radio New Zealand has reported that the police are dealing with 100 mental health patients a day and the time required…
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Friday night's headline on One News - Defence force may be in talks to allow nuclear ship visit - was obviously wrong with respect to the explosive "nuclear" claim. The headline now reads - Defence force may be in talks to allow US ship visit.…
As at right now (08:30 NZST 2nd November 2015 1), we passed having more than a million approved and published comments. Many years ago when we had just 500,000 comments when Eddie made this graphed prediction based on the steady growth of the site. As I said…
Stuart Nash has burst into print over at the Daily Blog. It is an interesting post. He talks about how the Labour Party is now more united and disciplined. Fair call. I am pleased to see that this is happening. He talks about how winning…
New Zealand is a beautiful country, and tourism is our second biggest earner of foreign exchange. We'd be stupid to trash the place, right? But last week: Swathes of native forest in collapse, say conservation groups Swathes of native forest are in collapse, conservation groups…
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