Ghodsee cites the work of a number of scholars of sexuality before she makes the argument that whatever terrible things were going on in East Germany before the wall came down – the Stasi, the food shortages, and all the brutality and deprivations of that totalitarian regime – East German women enjoyed better sex than West German women.
THE LABOUR-GREEN TECHNOCRATIC LEFT is clearly preparing to die in the very same ditch in which the Right hopes to bury the proposed Capital Gains Tax (CGT). This is unfortunate, since one of the more annoying, if unintended, consequences of such folly is likely to be the fall of the Coalition Government. Assuming, of course, that Winston Peters and NZ First are willing to die alongside their Labour and Green comrades. The sheer improbability of that happening is really the only ray of hope illuminating what is otherwise a pretty dreary situation.
The Good Let’s start with the good stuff, and there is a bit of that, mainly around the environmental tax…
The Tax Working Group recommendations, which include a revenue-neutral Capital Gains Tax, are the absolute bare minimum changes the Government…
The panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand argued for major changes to address pressing environmental issues. Executive Director, Greenpeace NZ, and previous co-leader of the Green Party, Russel Norman, urged us to adopt the identity of global citizens.
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The GCSB’s and the government’s scaremongering about the danger of Huawei spying through 5G can be summed up in two words: gross hypocrisy.
E tū says without key changes to the Equal Pay Amendment bill, few women will be able to successfully pursue…
Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says now is the time for Children to shame adults into climate change action.
The sooner Barry, Heather, Hosking, Fran and Audrey fuck off behind a paywall the better.
