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I bin thinkin’ (as I sometimes do) as a chief of spies (as I once was for police in Auckland), which can produce WMD out of nothing (such as my predecessors in the police did with Tuhoe).
Gaza is unlivable, as the UN predicted it would be by 2020.
40 years ago somebody put some music and some actions to a Hone TUWHARE poem, No Ordinary Sun, a warning about nuclear explosions and the devastation they leave in their wake.
A group of former Auckland civic leaders* has expressed alarm and dismay at the proposed plan to “move” Auckland’s port to Whangarei.
After 9 years of bitter austerity, how did the Tories turn an entitled, lying clownish toff like Johnson into such…
Why the silence, WHY NO OUTCRY OF ANGER, from our mainstream media?
Chris Trotter writes that the Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr could be a ‘revolutionary’ by forcing the Aussie banks to hold more funds to cover liabilities in a crisis such as that of the big bust of 2008.
Twice in my lifetime the National and Labour parties have had a consensus on housing policy and practice. The first time, when I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s, the consensus was that every New Zealander needed to live, and should live, in a well-built, comfortable, affordable home.
We all know the horrific harm that criminalising cannabis has caused. If the reeferendum is passed the Government’s Bill will at least stop that harm from continuing in the future. However, it seems it will do little to reverse that harm in the worst affected communities.
A white man murders 50 black people in Christchurch; 6 months later the police drop SWAT squads into black communities in South Auckland.