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Bill English pleased negotiations on how Paula Bennett will be sacrificed to Winston Peters are going well
Bill English pleased negotiations on how Paula Bennett will be sacrificed to Winston Peters are going well
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Generation Zero calls on new parliament to heed call of business leaders, take bold action on climate change Delegates attending…
Prison abolitionist organisation People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) is launching its campaign against solitary confinement this Saturday in Auckland. The…
Peaceful protests against the weapons industry continued today with a walking tour and picnic. The walking tour showed Wellingtonians the…
In her final week as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright will call on the incoming Parliament to…
Many moons ago – back when the notion of replacing Andrew Little with Jacinda Ardern was the sort of pie-in-the-sky idea dismissed by almost all serious commentators as almost assuredly fatal to both her party and her person, rather than some form of titanic/cthonic masterstroke capable of apparently singlehandedly reshaping the political landscape upon a whim – I sat down to pen a piece entitled “The Golden Path”.
“THESE TALKS ARE ABOUT A CHANGE in the way this country is run. Both economically and socially.” That is how Winston Peters characterised the government formation negotiations currently drawing to a close in Wellington. But, what could his words possibly mean, in practical terms?
Let’s make the next decade about solutions, not about problems. Let’s apply more new thinking to what we are for, less to what we are against. It doesn’t matter who is Prime Minister. We can have a twenty-first century multi-party democracy, through which all good ideas can be placed on the table, and considered on their merits.
Malcolm Evans – The truth about American gun violence