While they continue to ride forth, pausing in their wild career, to salute with uplifted arms, and uplifted swords, “The Crusaders” cheering fans, deep racial memories, born of the bloody excesses of Pakeha New Zealanders’ ancestors, will stir and rise to the surface. The past has a dangerous way of intruding upon the present.
Here’s my ten picks for how to ensure patients can access medicinal cannabis as soon as possible. These can all be done within the regulations set to be developed this year. There are other measures which could increase the pace of patient access, such as allowing patients to provide for themselves (ie home growing, which I advocated for) and allowing patients with prescriptions to import cannabis medicines for their own use, however these would require changes to legislation and are outside the scope of what I’m proposing here.
Now is the time to be adults, not spoilt children. Changing the name of a rugby team is not ‘letting the terrorist win’, it shows we’ve actually gained some cultural maturity.
I’m guessing the angst ends when you get a Jacket that doesn’t look like it’s part of the Sky City Casino staff uniform?
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Even worse is the realisation that it is not Martyn who is defending himself against criminal charges. It is the Police who are on trial for mis-using their powers by breaching a person’s privacy without due regard to the laws of this country.The police over-stepped and mis-used their powers of search and seizure. It was an illegal action, as Privacy Commissioner John Edwards stated with searing clarity, “that Police had collected his information in an unlawful way”.
Urge the Government’s representative at the United Nations to engage more actively with the United Nations Human Rights Council on the issue of war crimes and genocide of minority Tamils by the Sri Lankan Government.
I am sorry for what has happened to our Muslim fellow kiwis, and I am sorry we did not call out the hate speechers and gun nuts a long time ago, to help prevent this sort of attack. I am not going to keep making that mistake.
In the week of the 2011 election TV3 chose to screen my documentary INSIDE CHILD POVERTY. The immediate reaction from right wing commentators was that I was a baised leftist journalist. I was making making a mountain out of a molehill. There was no such thing as “Child Poverty” the term made no sense.
Who rules this country? The elected representatives or the Bureaucrats?