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The Māori Affairs select committee is currently hearing submissions on the Local Electoral (Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill. The intent of the bill is to do away with the discriminatory feature of the Local Electoral Act 2001 which allows electors, with enough signatures,…
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This recent essay from Powerdown author Richard Heinberg, states the dilemma in which we find ourselves in the clearest and most succinct and well argued form I have seen: to prevent global catastrophe from climate change and the concurrent ecological crises, we have to drop…
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Back in May, I wrote a post "Covid-19: may be endemic" in which I said Like measles, covid-19 could become endemic. Never dying out entirely. Needing to be controlled in human denser populations into the indefinite future.The Standard: "Covid-19: may be endemic" and That is…
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There is a group of workers in Aotearoa New Zealand whose jobs are potentially more important than director general of health Ashley Blomfield in terms of keeping us safe from Covid. They are the cleaners of the hotels where managed isolation occurs. Every day their…
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Another day and social media tragics of all political persuasions are watching National's latest efforts and scratching our heads and wondering what they are doing. Two days ago Parliament's Standing Orders Committee met and by a distinct majority decided that the compulsory tie wearing rule for…
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For the past four years, the region of Xinjiang in Northwest China has witnessed the largest forced incarceration of an ethno-religious minority anywhere in the world since the Second World War. Upwards of one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been forced into internment…
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This is a weird issue for the Maori Party to get ready to die in a ditch about. Having one of your two MPs being silenced in the people's chamber for not wearing a decorative strip of material around your neck when all other males…
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No Right Turn wrote last week: The Auckland Council will soon be consulting on a Regional Land Transport Plan, setting their transport priorities (and funding) for the next decade. Obviously, this will have a huge impact on the city's emissions profile. And to make sure…
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There is a particularly brutal war happening in Yemen in the Middle East. Yemen is next door to Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Government has taken a keen interest in doing what it can to affect the result of the war. The Guardian has this…
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