EPA: public views sought on persistent organic pollutants – Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority is seeking public views into a proposal that New Zealand ratify international agreements on banning and…
Year: 2018
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Smokefree 2025: An opportunity for big scores by the Govt – University of Otago
A group of tobacco control experts published an open letter this week in the New Zealand Medical Journal calling for…
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“Trade for All” in the EU NZ FTA Offers No New Direction
I urge the coalition parties in government to deliver the genuine change in the model of trade agreements that they promised before the election.
To date the promised review of trade strategy has involved outreach or information-sharing sessions on negotiations already underway, within the anti-democratic shroud of secrecy that shields the negotiations from scrutiny. There is no tangible evidence that the government intends to do anything significantly different.
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‘Successive parliaments have stifled student voice’ – NZUSA
Students have told MPs that they have an opportunity to turn the tide on previous laws which have stifled the…
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Lifewise response to Minister of Children’s vision of fewer children in state care.
Alleluia! Lifewise completely endorses Minister Tracey Martin’s vision of fewer children in state care. In the annual update on Oranga…
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5 Top Online Pastimes In New Zealand
New Zealand is no different from the rest of the world in the respect that more and more parts of…
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Legalising cannabis in Canada is good for public health – NZ Drug Foundation
AnchorCanada’s landmark decision to introduce a strictly regulated legal cannabis market is a public health win, and something the New…
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Protest at US Embassy
If you oppose Donald Trump’s racism against migrants, the best thing you can do is to join the struggle here in Aotearoa against exploitation and deportation. Many church leaders, Unions, cultural groups and MPs of parties now in Government visited sanctuary to support our students before their deportation. Now is the time for them to honour their pledges and bring our students back.
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The Many Mendacities of Mr Bridges – The ‘Claytons’ Apology
When National’s Simon Bridges, fronted up on Radio NZ on 5 June, he apparently apologised for his role in the unjust evictions of 300 state house tenants for meth-testing results that have been shown by Chief Science Advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, as bogus.
Bridges said;
“I’m sorry that the advice we got was wrong and has made this situation what it is.”
Except – it’s not an apology for the wrongful evictions at all. It’s a lamentation that “the advice we got was wrong”.
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Political Caption Competition
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