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Lot of talk this week that we need to raise the age of retirement to 67. The argument is that we can’t afford Superannuation at 65 for everyone so we should raise it to be ‘fair’. But who exactly is that being ‘fair’ to?
The most recent statistics I have been able to get that compare the reoffending rates of those granted parole with that of those who served their whole sentence relate to the period 1994-1999. Of those granted parole over that period, 15.5% reoffended and 84.5% didn’t. Of those who did not get parole 34.4% reoffended and 67.6% did not.
The move from the Maori Party to have Tainui King Tuheitia endorse their candidate Rahui Papa in the Hauraki-Waikato seat is one of the most selfish and saddest political strategies I have ever witnessed in Maori politics.
I went to last night’s ‘town hall meeting’ with Gareth Morgan with some questions around the viability of his play…
Congratulations to Race Relations commissioner Dame Susan Devoy for her courageous stand challenging the Government to hold an independent inquiry into the abuse of children held in care by the state.
Bill English seems to be as inept at leading the National Party now as he was in 2002, when the Party suffered its worst ever defeat at the polls. So, if John Key is the Keith Holyoake of our modern era, is Bill English the modern version of Holyoake’s hapless deputy, John Marshall?
The Opportunities Party, (TOP), have held a Launch for the release of their Climate Change Policy in Dunedin South.
On International Women’s Day 2017 human rights NGOs reported that 55 Palestinian women and girls, including 12 minors under 18, were being held on Israeli jails. Some of the women are suffering from injuries but not receiving adequate medical help.
Why would your readers outside The King Country want to read about The Lines Companys dodgey pricing? Because the government wants to extend the Peak Load Pricing Model to all lines companys throughout NZ.
Let’s see then…23 years from now …2040AD… 8 General Elections gone, boomers but a memory and all the whiles amidst an endless series of social, political and environmental disasters… a terrible tidal wave… a flood…wars… plagues… famines… hell…even cats and dogs living together in peace and harmony!