If your defence of rape requires “like any red-blooded male would”, perhaps you need a new lawyer
The terrible case of a young cricketeer allegedly raping a young woman is as depressing as the defence the lawyers has tried to use today.
Martyn Bradbury
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BREAKING- Allegations of Political interference to twist foreign buyers numbers
Labour have come out with an incredibly serious allegation that Steven Joyce and other Government Ministers manipulated the foreign buyers register to make the numbers appear far smaller than they really are…
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Bain and Pora highlight the emptiness of NZ Justice
Our love of locking people up has been manipulated so much so that we don’t actually care anymore if innocent people are trapped within our prison system. The Government won’t even consider if we have innocent people in prison, which is why a group of academics have had to step in and build an innocence project themselves.
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Why Trump and Clinton are lying about the TPPA
Trump and Clinton are telling American voters that they won’t sign the TPPA because of its impact on the working class.
This is nonsense.
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EU threaten the tax haven that John Key built
John Key built NZ intro a tax haven and had his private lawyer who uses tax havens muscle in on the Revenue Minister to ensure no IRD crack down occurred.
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Of course the Maori Party should turn its back on Helen Clark
The surprise by the mainstream media that the Maori Party won’t support Helen Clark’s bid for the UN says more about them than it does the Maori Party.
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How racist is the Paul Henry Show? Calls Maori Party Treasonous and speculates on bringing back the death penalty
Is the Paul Henry Show the most racist TV3 has? Yes. Yes it is.
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It’s official – the Unitary Plan is a scam
This is a war of privilege between the haves and want mores, this is not a fight between the haves and have nots. In one corner the rich baby boomer property speculators are fighting the Unitary Plan to keep their privilege, in the other corner blue-green millennials who want the privilege they feel they’ve been denied are leading the fight for it.
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New papers show TPPA will threaten climate change laws AND rob Maori sovereignty rights
Dear NZ – you have been conned and lied to about the TPPA from the beginning. The fight back starts now, this is a war as every bit real as any threat NZ has ever faced, except this time most of our own Political system is helping the enemy.
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Another stupid idea to attack State Tenants with
seeing as many of these state tenants are also beneficiaries, moving from Auckland where they can at least conform to National’s draconian work for welfare demands by holding down menial low paying no dignity jobs to just gain the few crumbs in welfare offered, is a nonsense.