David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill passed it’s second reading yesterday. It now goes to the Committee of the Whole House where all members of Parliament consider it part by part and have the chance to debate it in detail.
Glug, glug, glug” – that’s the sound a sinking battleship makes, according to Paul Keating, who deployed the sound effect to devastating effect on Wednesday to underline his argument that the United States could not expect to dominate China in the South China Sea.
JACINDA ARDERN HAILS her government as the most committed to delivering progressive change since the mid-1970s. In other words, since the Third Labour Government of Norman Kirk and Bill Rowling (1972-1975). Before assessing whether or not the Prime Minister’s claim is true, it is worth considering what on earth possessed her to make it.
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Ummmm, why is the Minister dressed like a Batman villain?
Grant Robertson’s promise however to make sure the Banking Oligarch’s perverse grip on predatory loans & price gouging fees will be more stable than ever is hardly cheery.
Restaurant Brands Ltd (RBL), is asking staff to authorise the deduction of so-called overpayments from the annual leave money they owe their current and former staff.
I heard Finance Minister Grant Robertson say on Morning Report today that he ” wasn’t expecting another financial crisis any time soon”.
Well, he and his advisors may not be expecting it, but surely one of the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis was that being so locked into maintaining ‘business as usual’ means we often fail to ask whether the usual way of doing business is the BEST way of doing it.
So effectively mediocre white men have been advanced over any actual promotion of ability and charisma which isn’t a criticism of National, it’s more a statement of fact that denotes the very values they stand and sit when their told for.
I’ve seen more dynamic yawns than this reshuffle, it manages to make the term Shadow Cabinet even less substantive. More like a Wraith Cabinet.