NZ Politician Celebrates International Women’s Day by complaining about female MPs clothing
David Seymour, the Leader of the hard right political party ACT, chose to celebrate International Women’s Day in NZs Parliament in an interesting manner…
Year: 2017
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Jan Logie reminds NZ what Parliament can be used for – serving the people
Congratulations to Jan Logie and the Green Party for getting their law to give domestic violence survivors and whanau paid and unpaid leave for domestic violence through to its first stage in Parliament.
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Can we please have a chat about Rachel Stewart and the NZ Herald?
To be honest I bit my tongue at the time and waited for the giants of our media landscape to step forward and say something. Because you know, what happened was terrible and it demanded a response that had all our Journalistic best and brightest lining up to turn attention onto what occurred and to denounce it in no uncertain language.
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How latest CIA Wikileaks impacts NZ as we prepare to give GCSB & SIS even more powers
Surely the NZ Government has to assure us the people that the surveillance powers they are about to grant the GCSB and the SIS can’t be misused by foreign spy powers, otherwise everything they are gathering is effectively intelligence for the Americans.
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A Gut Feeling
AM I GUILTY of wishful thinking, or are the times really a-changing? If I still took any notice of opinion polls, the answers, respectively, would be “Yes” and “No”. There is, as yet no empirical evidence of a major shift in electoral allegiances. Unfortunately, in these times, that sort of data only seems to become available after the electoral picture has been radically defaced.
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First Security to pay Living Wage to PECCS guards – E tū
Prison escort guards employed by First Security are to be paid the living wage of $20.20 per hour as their…
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Who Owns New Zealand? CAFCA Releases Latest Key Facts
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) has uploaded the 2017 edition of its Key Facts.
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DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL REELS IN TOP FILMS FOR THE 2017 PROGRAMME
The Documentary New Zealand Trust presents
Doc Edge International Film Festival (Doc Edge)
Wellington, 10 – 21 May
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Your Voice Election 2017 – Ann Johns* experience of how CYFs killed her son
The CYF workers did absolutely nothing right, I blame them the most for the death of my son. They refused to engage with me on any level and I was, not only his mother, but a guardian. They ignored all that. I have pages and pages of their incompetence and uselessness.
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Petition to save Cadbury goes global – E tū
The petition to save the Dunedin Cadbury factory and the jobs of its workers has gone global. A local petition/open…