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Tamaki’s speech at Waitangi this year where he described immigrants as “parasites” and “termites” betrays yet more of his self-serving version of Christianity. It unashamedly flies in the face of the message of love and tolerance that, as I understand it, most people who call themselves Christians proclaim as the guiding principle of their lives.
The sale of a Rangitikei forest to a Chinese buyer was approved by the Overseas Investment Office last Thursday.
In 2017 the Green Party decided to contravene the iron-clad electoral rule for third parties putting up a candidate aiming to win the electorate vote as well as the party vote, which is Don’t do it unless you have a really, really good chance of winning it.
Ihumātao began as Māori land used for gardening. After British colonisation in the 1840s it also supplied the settlers in Auckland. But the Treaty was a fraud and Māori land presented a barrier to capitalist colonisation. In 1863 it was confiscated and the people driven off the land as the settlers went to war against resistance to land sales. From that point on Ihumātao was swallowed up by Auckland as it burgeoned as the main entry point for Empire. In 1867 the colonial state sold the land to private owners, the Wallace family, who farmed it for generations until recently when it was sold on to Fletcher Building for new housing.
While I’m not a graduate in medical science, I was once Under Secretary in Charge of Bio Security – 1990ies- before Bio Security had its own Minister in charge.
‘First step in right direction’: World reacts to talks between Libya’s warring parties in Moscow.
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.