Government move on electric trains puts Just Transition on the right track – CTU
The Council of Trade Unions today welcomed the Government announcement that Kiwirail would retain 15 electric engines on the Northern…
The Council of Trade Unions today welcomed the Government announcement that Kiwirail would retain 15 electric engines on the Northern…
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the Law Commission’s report outlining three alternative legal models for treating abortion as…
NZ Parliament select committee ‘believe they have no jusrisdiction’ to recommend asylum for Assange in New Zealand Parliament’s Foreign Affairs…
During my .. brief awokenness this afternoon, I happened to peruse the newspaper. And what did I see? Pieces commenting on the recent attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. This is, of course, to be expected. But what was *not*, like *at all* to be expected, was the escalating level of accusations in relation to the attack that Donald Trump… is apparently an anti-semite.
Malcolm Evans – Banning Rodeo
Where’s Wally?
THE MAINSTREAM NEWS media’s constant and effusive praise for Green co-leader, James Shaw, draws into sharp focus the party’s fundamental contradiction. That the supra-political character of the present planetary crisis must doom to failure any attempt to present the Greens as just-another-political-party. Undaunted, Shaw exploits with considerable skill the urgent need of the status-quo’s defenders’ to keep “common-sense solutions” in play. Were in not so tragic, this acquiescence to the short-termism that defines both the intractability of climate change, and of modern politics, would be hugely and comically ironic.
Housing Minister Phil Twyford recently admitted to only becoming aware last week that the compensation planned for tenants who were…
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Malcolm Evans – Royal NZ Visit 2018