Labour, the Greens and liberal parts of the media have not adjusted to the fact that liberal and Maori are different things. To start with, the super-liberal state-owned media frame current Maori political representation as within Labour, Greens, or Te Pati Maori. Typically, they do…
The Government is being formed and the coalition agreements are now out for all to see. To be frank I am not only shocked but also amazed. It feels like the policies were formulated by members of a Workingman's club in the 1970s and negotiated…
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Some of the more unusual policies from the National-New Zealand First coalition agreement. - 13 new Roads of National Significant and four major public transport upgrades. - ...boot camps for serious young offenders, and stronger sentencing so New Zealanders can feel safe. - ...an hour…
On Friday, three parties respectively and finally signed agreements to gain a slim majority in parliament. What this means is that some time on Monday Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro will be able to swear in the new ministers of the Executive Council. The current…
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Today may be the day we have a new Government, that is as long as Act and NZ First can resolve their fight over who is to be Deputy Prime Minister. If ever you wanted Lloyd Burr at Newshub has released this 8 minute video…
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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Ivan Savin, ESCP Business School and Lewis King, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals When she took to the floor…
So National Act and NZ First have apparently worked out their policy differences and are now dealing with the important stuff, how to divide up the baubles of office. Clearly Winston is holding out. David Seymour's public campaign that as the leader of the second…
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Hamas is deploying a set of tough ethical calculations as it planned its attack on Israeli civilians to kill, rape, and kidnap as it did. One of them is in the use of human shields for their ongoing operations for those in Hamas in Gaza…
Earlier this week the New Zealand Labour Party made a statement on Palestine and it was a good one. Certainly much better than the positions adopted by its sister Labour parties overseas. UK Labour has refused to call for a ceasefire although 56 Labour MPs…
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RNZ's flagship Morning Report was particularly bad today, especially in this 8-minute item, titled on its website "UN expert on Palestinian rights cries for children killed." The headlined expert is Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Human rights. However the first half of the clip…
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