The AM Show’s spluttering surprise at Andrew Little’s position on cutting immigration by tens of thousands
The AM Show has become a wiggly tooth that I can’t stop rubbing and touching.
I think I’m a news masochist.
Year: 2017
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Wanted: Better urban planning to reduce Fiji’s climate change impact
More than a year on from Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston — which devastated Fiji early last year, leaving 44 people dead and 45,000 displaced — a Fijian planning researcher offers his scenario around climate change. His message is good for much of the Pacific.
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More tinkering, no leadership from Nats on immigration – Andrew Little
National’s latest tinkering with the immigration system is another attempt to create the appearance of action without actually doing anything…
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The mental health system is broken – a full independent inquiry is way overdue
The family of Nicky Stevens, the young man who died in 2015 while in the compulsory care of Waikato DHB’s…
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Prisons need a rethink if they are to be less racist
We all understand the anger anyone of us would feel when a loved one is hurt by someone. You wouldn’t be a human being if you didn’t want to punish a person for doing something criminal or cruel to someone you identify with, but allowing anger and fear to dominate our thinking has created more problems than solutions within our prison system and it’s time we all acknowledged that.
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Courts finally give the poorest workers what the Government wouldn’t and the Unions couldn’t
Congratulations to Kristine Bartlett and the mostly female 55,000 care workers who have finally been shown the dignity and respect they are so long overdue. The work they perform is critical to our social infrastructure and they deserve to be treated far better than they have.
It is a day they should celebrate.
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Sorry
Although it’s beginning to fade from the newscycle, I have a few opinions about the recent injurious removal of a passenger Dr. David Dao from a United flight. As reported on Fortune.com, United released first-quarter earnings, and apologized for the second time.
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GUEST BLOG: Julie Carter – When the one-liner isn’t a joke
Whenever simple solutions are proposed to address complex questions, alarm bells should start ringing. In the last year, the likes of Trump in the U.S. and Nigel Farage in the UK have successfully wooed electorates with populist messages that are big on rhetoric, but scant on detail.
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Political Caption Competition
Donald Trump introduces his new Secretary of State
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UK Snap Election Called
New Zealanders will wake up this morning to news that the UK Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a snap election.