SAFE demands this be the last rodeo season, as a horse is killed at Rodeo National Finals
A horse has been killed at the Rodeo National Finals in North Canterbury today, renewing demands from SAFE for the…
Year: 2019
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Government Correct to Abolish Blasphemy Laws – Free Speech Coalition
The Government has made New Zealand freer by abolishing outdated blasphemy laws prohibiting speech critical of religion, says the Free…
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A Hikoi To Parliament on 12 March 2019 – Save Our Unique Landscape
Following a hugely successful Reclamation Festival at Ihumaatao on the weekend, supporters of the Auckland-based Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL)…
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Primary teachers and principals to consider new offers from the Ministry of Education – NZEI Te Riu Roa
Primary teachers and principals to consider new offers from the Ministry of Education NZEI Te Riu Roa will take new…
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Senior doctors urge Government to address chronic pain burden – Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The Government needs to make sure the public health system has enough specialists to treat chronic pain to relieve the…
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Investment in alternative milk product a positive step – SAFE
Fonterra’s investment in alternative milk product company is a positive step for the future according to SAFE Fonterra has acquired…
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Jamie Lee Ross Battleship: He’s hit National hard
If the cloud of SFO investigation hangs over a leader who is tanking in the polls, it is only a matter of time before a nervous National Party turn to the Winter Queen of Doom, Judith Collins.
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Geoff Simmons – Davidson is Wrong: Capital Gains Tax Will Hurt the Poor
Marama Davidson has come out claiming that a Capital Gains Tax should be just the start of tax system reform that favours the poor. The trouble is that a Capital Gains Tax excluding the family home actually helps the middle class. It doesn’t help the poor, and will probably even hurt them.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Climbing Everest: gender equality
Ever since Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the ‘Vindication of the Rights of Women’ in 1793, there has been a women’s movement in the English -speaking world. Mary, you will remember, was famous for arguing that women’s apparent inferiority to men stemmed from their lack of education, not their nature. She argued for a social order founded on reason, not gender.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Thousands protest water bottling in Christchurch
If you rely on mainstream media for your news then you may well have missed the fact that an estimated 5000 Canterbury folk attended a protest march in Christchurch last Saturday against the granting of more water extraction rights to the Chinese owned firm Cloud Ocean Water Ltd