Syndey Morning Herald: "one of the invited guests got really carried away, especially after Italy troubled the Wallabies early on. ''He booed and abused the Wallabies all game,'' Jeeves said. ''He was yelling out, 'f---ing cheats' and other offensive remarks, and then when the Wallabies…
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The Herald thought it appropriate to publish this vile little gem from Damien Grant yesterday. In it Mr Grant lays out why you don't give the low paid any quarter: Economically, the unskilled are irrelevant. They are a commodity. Only talent matters and a progressive…
Which minister will John Key fire this week? Bill 'Double Dipton' English, who is embroiled in yet another personal corruption scandal following the revelations on his housing expenses in 2009 and the PEDA money in 2010. This time for an unadvertised, big-money contracting job has…
I heard John Key talking at the Auckland North Shore Business awards a little over a week ago, and he was talking about how important R&D was to New Zealand, and how we needed to increase it. It was one of a number of comments…
On Saturday Stuff carried a piece (by Adam Dudding) on John Key. In most respects it was the usual kind of puffy profile, but it was definitely a cut above the kind of drivel we have seen from some star-struck writers. In places Dudding made…
Ten years after the September 11th 2001 attacks, the world is sitting in a fragile state. International media are awash with stories of a possible ‘car bomb’ attack on American soil, with sources citing intelligence of three possible terrorists entering the country. It’s very hard…
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