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Alfred Ngaro and Brian Tamaki’s recent announcements that they intend to form right-wing Christian conservative parties should give us all pause for thought. Shit, already we are fighting the modern Puritanism of ‘woke’ Millennials. Now we have to sound the drums to battle an older foe, one we thought had long since collapsed under Reason’s onslaught.
I am hosting New Zealand Public Television’s first Budget and Economy Event at the Otahuhu Town Hall Friday May 31st @ 6.15 pm
Twenty- two years ago I made a documentary about mass murder in which I had the harrowing experience of interviewing the families of the mass murder victims. Back then (1997) I recommended banning military style semi automatic weapons and registering ALL guns, as did Justice Thorp in his report published around that time.
We have the highest rate of teenage suicide in the developed world. According to Stephen Bell (Director of Youthline ) In a average week two teenagers kill themselves and about 20 young people will be hospitalised for self-harm each week, he estimated.
There is no question our Prime Minister is a truly remarkable person.
The trouble with schoolyard bullies is; sooner or later the smaller kids catch up. And as Great Britain and France found out: EMPIRES DIE.
The latest offer of 2200 square kilometres of land around Taranaki for the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, or ‘fracking’ deserves attention. Green MP Chloe Swarbrick explained to her followers that this under the current law this was an administrative decision, while Energy Minister Megan Woods was quick to note that among the offer’s benefits was that it didn’t include offshore oil and gas. But why frack now?
Is our government serious about Climate Change or not?
As a former teacher let me be clear I’m 100% behind our educators in their efforts to get better pay and conditions.
So even at the time of announcing the death of neoliberalism the Prime Minister knew her Party was going to keep the economic philosophy it had introduced in 1984 on life support