Budget this year delivered in ways that many of us have been waiting for. Community groups, Iwi, beneficiaries, environmentalists and more, all agreed on Budget Day that they were quietly pleased to see groups they represent receive funding. For many, that funding is just a…
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A company wants to make a film about the Christchurch mosque massacre on 15 March 2019. It's about time. Both the Prime Minister and the Mayor of Christchurch have proposed that the film should not be made because there are other stories that ought to…
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By Jenny How to get thereThe other week the NZ Herald ran a large full page opinion piece by Simon Wilson calling for, a lane of the Harbour be turned into a bike-way. Complete with an artist's impression of what it would look like.Simon Wilson:…
The America’s Cup competition now looks likely to head offshore. The Minister of Economic Development Stuart Nash was remarkably sanguine: At the end of the day the America’s Cup is a global commercial operation. It is an international business as much as a sporting contest.…
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The Greens put out a press release a few weeks ago, "welcoming the Government’s renewed commitment to safe walking and cycling across the Waitematā Harbour, but warning that new highway investment puts our response to the climate change emergency at risk." Good stuff for where…
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I am pleased the right have moved on from overtly racist attacks on minorities. But I am bemused by the current level of vitriol that has been thrown at a group who apart from wearing lycra is doing nothing wrong. It seems that instead of…
Wonderful news, the Government is going to apologise for the dawn raids in the 1970s that targeted Pacifica. I was a young teenager at the time and I grew up in Mangere. I went to a Catholic School and attended a Catholic Church. My father…
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Part of the difficult delicate job of becoming carbon neutral is the need to fundamentally transform the country's car fleet from gas guzzlers to clean electric vehicles in a fairly quick time. For a while Labour and the Greens have wanted to install a feebate…
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