Good news, long overdue: Big pay rise for women: Deal likely to alarm private sector About 55,000 low-paid workers, mainly women, are about to get one of the biggest pay rises ever after details of a historic pay equity settlement are revealed today. This is…
I hear there are murmurings in National's ranks at the number of fundamentalist christians being selected in winnable seats. One of them is in Pakuranga which is one of the safest of National seats. His name is Simeon Brown. He is aged 24 and is…
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Sonny Bill Williams is someone who has grown on me. My initial impression of him was that he was an overpaid professional footballer who tore up contracts for more money and code jumped just because he could. But he has changed dramatically and improved. He converted…
A little under two weeks ago every major news outlet fell over themselves to report on allegations of a chemical attack in Syria that had killed scores of people. Yesterday our time, over one hundred people, including scores of children, were killed when buses carrying…
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