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It would seem to me to be incongruent in the extreme to punish students for having a social conscience on what is the most urgent issue of our times. These brave young New Zealanders are striking to demand adults combat climate change meaningfully and they should be free to embark upon that activism without risk of school retribution.
Marama Davidson has come out claiming that a Capital Gains Tax should be just the start of tax system reform that favours the poor. The trouble is that a Capital Gains Tax excluding the family home actually helps the middle class. It doesn’t help the poor, and will probably even hurt them.
If you rely on mainstream media for your news then you may well have missed the fact that an estimated 5000 Canterbury folk attended a protest march in Christchurch last Saturday against the granting of more water extraction rights to the Chinese owned firm Cloud Ocean Water Ltd
Alison Mau wrote on the same day the Leaving Netherland documentary is about to air that she does not dig MJs music anyway.
What will happen to their economy and, as a consequence,to ours?
Anyone who has attended a Parliamentary Select Committee hearing in recent years will have sensed there is something rotten in the state of our democracy.
Is trial by media in the court of public opinion the new low standard we all should adopt as our sole source of conviction about the guilt or innocence of anyone accused of a crime?
Simon Bridges has a new mantra – that the recently released tax review is “ an assault on the Kiwi way of life.” It’s a piece of political rhetoric that piles one myth on top of another to avoid reality.
A week or so ago I had the chance to sit and talk with him about some of the ethical questions he faces in his work and how he protects his informants.
Hosking marvelled in jaw dropping admiration at the recycled hackneyed phrase first penned by Michael Gerson as a speech writer for G W Bush back in the early 2000s :