It is deeply disappointing to see such a lack of real political courage. We can make grand gestures against the oil and roading industry to appease white urban middle class liberals but we can’t protect the weakest, poorest and most brown parts of our community from a cruelty that is being perpetrated by the very Government that is supposed to protect them.
How can NZ have such conservative vested interests that can stop real progress in this country?
In NZ we are always a dollar short and a day late.
As China and America lock horns in a trade war and with the enormous build up of naval hardware in the South China Sea, it is becoming increasingly likely that NZ is going to get dragged into this geopolitical vortex.
Maybe it’s me getting old and seeing looming economic crashes and environmental meltdowns that will demand a level of co-operation amongst our squabbling tribes that is making me so reflective but the entire Israel Folau issue just seemed like a terrible missed opportunity.
The reality is the crippling underfunding of Auckland’s infrastructure will require more than $28billion to seriously get the city moving.
National built a mass surveillance deep state, the supposed checks and balances to that deep state are a joke and mere window dressing.
To date, the National Party have behaved like a spoilt child convinced that somehow they were tricked and robbed into losing the election.
…the NZ cops knew Roberto Conchi Harris was bent, but used his testimony to arrest and send Tamihere down. Harris has gone down for 8 years and 7 months for his role in framing Tamihere, but what about the NZ cops who used him?
…Hosking is criticising Clarke for responding to a fellow Herald’s character assassination as if it’s Clarke’s fault????