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The government’s decision to allow Japanese-owned Pan Pac Forest Products to bypass the Overseas Investment Office and make up to 25 purchases totalling 20,000 hectares of land for forestry for the next three years tells you how deeply embedded neoliberal thinking is entrenched in our government.
More years ago than I now care to remember I was the editor of CANTA, the Canterbury University Student Newspaper. One edition caused a problem because I and a couple of my reporters had done an investigation into aged care in Christchurch and found a couple of residential homes where the standards of hygiene and over -crowded conditions were frankly appalling.
If you’re not interested in politics or rugby then you probably got more sleep than I did last night.
Evening Report looks into the separation of Kiwibank from New Zealand Post, and considers the impact on the public’s access to banking services in their communities. Kiwibank. What’s going on?
For once in a long list of condemnations by me of police shooting people and avoiding the Courts where their culpability for killing should be determined – rather than the IPCA aka “Boys Club”.
F*** all: that’s the amount of effect you can have on the volume of plastic coming into the system and our environment by getting your toilet paper delivered in a cardboard carton, switching to a bamboo toothbrush, taking hemp tote-bags to the supermarket and getting all retro with glass milk bottles
This siren call, I suggest, is another clarion for more resources.
Rachel Stewart is a Canon Media Award winning columnist and former writer at the NZ Herald.
The day after the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw announced that he had appointed Rod Carr to be Chair of the non-existent* Climate Change Commission, my partner Martin received a begging letter from Shaw asking him to donate $80 today to Shaw’s party to “show that the fight against climate change will be won through people power and not by corporate interests.”
Instead of looking to the past, TOP will hold the balance of power and force career politicians to face up to the future. We stand for fundamental change. I understand change is scary for a lot of people. But as they say if you don’t like change, you are going like irrelevance even less.