I think we need roving para-military Police as an immediate response to white lone gun men, but beyond that, I fear the same old bias and racial profiling will slip in and the usual targets who aren’t armed will get shot.
I have zero time for a death cult like ISIS, but I can’t help but feel this entire fiasco isn’t anyone else’s fault other than America’s to begin with.
After watching the way Oranga Tamariki lied, manipulated, deceived and attempted to trick the family so that they could uplift the infant, why, why, why would any member of their family legitimise this whitewash with their participation?
Gun regulation is happening, accept it.
There is a belief on the Right that Simon Bridges should simply rule Winston out and by denying him his Kingmaker role, blunt NZ First into irrelevance.
There has been a lot of handwringing from Fairfax about MPs passing the buck on Cannabis and Euthanasia to referendums.
Once again it is Māori and indigenous peoples who are leading the war on climate change.
Having the Casino closed for any period of time will be crippling SkyCity and the fire at their conference centre will be setting them up for an enormous money hole as well, so of course they would reopen their Casino with the sort of undue haste a P addict goes right back to their dealer after a heart attack with.
Labour Day became a national holiday in New Zealand in 1899. It was to commemorate and celebrate the rise of worker powers and how the earliest Pakeha settlers coming to New Zealand fought to create a fair balance of power between the boss and the worker.
Look, we are all dreadfully sad that Mediaworks is about to sell TV3 and we all hope that the Government steps in and saves it, but the truth is that there are 5 buyers of TV3 that would make things far worse.