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It was absolutely stupid of National to deprive post graduates of their allowances and thereby robbing many students of the ability to finish these high level but long duration courses.
The whole of New Zealand was in shock between 15th March and 23rd March.
These eight days were like no other really in recent history, as 50 of us were murdered in cold blood, mowed down in a place of worship and dozens were critically injured, paralysed or maimed.
This included young children.
What better time to ask New Zealanders about the priorities of the government and Business New Zealand saw it’s chance regarding the Capital Gains Tax.
Just a note to say thank you to the readers of my page who collectively contributed $1520 yesterday to the campaign to fight the massive Chinese water bottling plant proposed for Otakiri in the Bay Of Plenty.
These American threats, emanate from the Land of the Free with such banality that few if any, take any notice any more, of the bluster and bullshit emanating from the self-proclaimed World Policeman.
A dedicated team of propaganda writers don’t stop just because they have been censured and fined by the broadcasting standards association.
Creswell NZ sounds like a New Zealand owned company doesn’t it?It’s not. In fact it is owned by Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd a massive Chinese bottling company and last year our Government allowed them to buy the land to build a massive 16,800m2 water bottling mega-plant at Otakiri in the Bay of Plenty .
In the week of the 2011 election TV3 chose to screen my documentary INSIDE CHILD POVERTY. The immediate reaction from right wing commentators was that I was a baised leftist journalist. I was making making a mountain out of a molehill. There was no such thing as “Child Poverty” the term made no sense.
Who rules this country? The elected representatives or the Bureaucrats?
Yesterday I learned that Blogger Martyn Bradbury (pictured) has not only had to contend with his personal bank accounts being searched without a warrant but that the police are now seeking a closed hearing of the Human Rights Tribunal to present evidence it does not want made public.
Of the remaining 108,983 small businesses with between 1 and 19 employees, only a small portion of them employ anyone on the minimum wage at all because many need higher skilled people with experience.