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Sustainable Otakiri has four days left to meet the costs of Sustainable Otakiri taking the Chinese owned company that wants to bottle .1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year (that’s 2,451, 960 bottles each day) to the Environment Court.
Well what a busy last couple of days I’ve had in the House. Yesterday after supporting International Worker’s Day (May Day), I decided to attack the Māori MPs in National in my General Debate.
Yesterday Opposition leader Simon Bridges let forth in parliament with a rant of name calling that would get him banned from my page .
As the heat comes on Simon Bridges, he should be most mindful of lessons passed on by former party leaders.
Five years ago, the Brian Tamaki inspired Man Up programme was born out of a desire from prison inmates themselves to seek positive change in their lives. Its reach and its success have grown in leaps and bounds since then.
“There is no alternative.” That’s what we were told when Labour introduced neoliberal economics into New Zealand back in 1984. It was a lie. There was – and is -always an alternative.
Instead of spending vast amounts of money to make our roads bigger and wider just to clog them up again with more and more cars -why don’t we make public transport free and charge people a premium to taking their car into the city?
If his ISIS Group were responsible for Sri Lanka’s week of terrorist chaos, and if this Group decide that retribution is the key to redemption, it would (in my view) be unwise of NZ Guardians, to ignore the possibility if not probability, that Aotearoa would be an easy target and revenge for the massacre of 50 Muslims in Christchurch.
Tired doctors are more likely to make mistakes so it is in all of our interests to support them as they resist the DHB’s trying to break their collective bargaining power
I totally reject any and all forms of religion. I had enough of that – force fed as a kid at stage of life when one is supposed to believe what the grown-ups say. Today I have no problem with any religion as long as they who subscribe, keep their activity to themselves.