Having the Casino closed for any period of time will be crippling SkyCity and the fire at their conference centre will be setting them up for an enormous money hole as well, so of course they would reopen their Casino with the sort of undue haste a P addict goes right back to their dealer after a heart attack with.
Labour Day became a national holiday in New Zealand in 1899. It was to commemorate and celebrate the rise of worker powers and how the earliest Pakeha settlers coming to New Zealand fought to create a fair balance of power between the boss and the worker.
Look, we are all dreadfully sad that Mediaworks is about to sell TV3 and we all hope that the Government steps in and saves it, but the truth is that there are 5 buyers of TV3 that would make things far worse.
…without any real plans to reform the neoliberal welfare state and without any political courage, this Government have utterly failed beneficiaries.
Surprise, surprise, the Government have once again capitulated to the angry Farming Gods of NZ and left them out of any obligation to do anything meaningful about climate change…
The changes the Greens have managed to get Labour to adopt are great, but surely the fact the entire thing hangs on the evidential threshold of balance of probabilities is the true civil rights issue here?
There are three things that make you a Nu Zilinder.
For the sleepy hobbits, there are only 3 true heroes to ever worship in Nu Zilind.
What Rio Tinto is really saying to the Government is that before MediaWorks gets any corporate welfare, they would like to get back in line and demand more.
Herald incompetence aside, and all the Nu Zilind basic bitch sensibilities that we never criticise anything because it’s so untoward (remember how that played out at Pike River Mine?) does it concern anyone else that the entire fucking CBD can be shut down and poisoned because of a bloody unattended blowtorch?