NZ can only trade with China while it remains Internationally benign – what happens if that changes?
Becoming economically reliant on China is not a position we want to remain in.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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The neoliberal welfare state is refusing to pay the politics of kindness anything other than lip service
The only way to force reform is shaming. The Government must look to the many, many NGOs and Community organisations that are forced to interact with the neoliberal welfare state and fund them to act as service support for beneficiaries and to produce public reports on counter productive policy.
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Royal Commission of Inquiry into white supremacist atrocity will ask hard questions
This Inquiry may well be the most important examination of domestic intelligence ever conducted and it will be overseen by a Government who have clearly shown they will take direct action for change.
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Gun nuts should be under surveillance now
The more & more I read of the irrational, wilfully ignorant & down right malicious crap spouted by the NZ Gun Lobby…
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Why Shane Jones must be destroyed
Shane Jones is being publicly flogged in the media in todays Political Roundup.
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The true extent of the malicious evil that is Whaleoil
Every major news outlet had Slater on speed dial and he won the Cannon Media award! So much venom is spat at Slater for what we now know about him – but how quick we are to forget how the vast majority of the NZ mainstream empowered him.
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Does Duncan Garner want to rename the Crusaders ‘The Canterbury Snowflakes’?
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.
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MEDIA WATCH: Are we sure Leighton Smith isn’t a hoax?
I say until we can definitively prove that Leighton Smith exists, we should refuse to include him in a debate as pressing as global warming.
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How many acronyms does it take to catch a white supremacist?
The solution here is not more vast surveillance powers, it’s the intelligence agencies using the existing powers they already have against real threats, not the reds under the bed who they’ve focused on so far.
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Ummm, so what National are asking for is the right to storm brown people’s homes anytime the Police want???
It wasn’t a gang who shot & killed 100 Muslims – it was a white supremacist – demanding Police gain the power to storm brown people’s homes to seize guns as a response to that terrorism is ethically bankrupt.