Open letter presented to Sistema CEO today – E tū
At midday today, Sistema workers, together with community leaders and local and national politicians will present Sistema CEO Drew Muirhead…
At midday today, Sistema workers, together with community leaders and local and national politicians will present Sistema CEO Drew Muirhead…
Amnesty International is urging the New Zealand Government to walk the talk on human rights in advance of its four-yearly…
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says that a broad sweep of new housing programmes is required to reduce the reliance…
Now while, to be sure, it is possible that this may have been meant as a direct comment on how National’s two Indian MPs are seen within the party as individuals … I think given the surrounding context of the conversation that it is quite clear the National Party does not see the Indian communities within New Zealand in a particularly positive light.
REDACTED: Well, as REDACTED predicted, SB’s refusal to grant JLR everything he asked for back in February sent him into a black fury and made him extremely receptive to the idea of getting his own back. It really was very clever of you, REDACTED, to identify JLR’s acute sensitivity to even the slightest of slights. I’ve seldom encountered anyone more willing to allow their passion to over-rule their reason.
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WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING inside the National Party Caucus? Are we witnessing a genuine intra-party meltdown or merely the political and personal disintegration of a single individual? When all the dust has settled, will very much have changed?
Our unprecedented protests against the TPPA, from small rural towns to the main cities, moved the political ground on secretly negotiated international treaties that entrench corporate rights, handcuff elected governments and disempower peoples. Politicians were shaken. The Holy Grail of free trade agreements was now a political liability.