Waatea News Column: Armed Police & Cannabis prohibition – 2 examples of bias against Maori
The stats when it comes to Māori cannabis convictions and shootings by armed Police make for sobering reading.
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MEDIA WATCH: The irony of refugees fleeing to NZ only to become beneficiaries and realising NZers hate beneficiaries
Terrible story in the ODT about the lived experiences of refugees felling to NZ to live as beneficiaries, only to realise that NZers fucking hate beneficiaries…
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Greenpeace: Dangerous nitrous oxide emissions rising fast – New study
An international team of scientists have just found that nitrous oxide emissions are rising much faster than had been previously…
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Crown must honor Te Tiriti with Cannabis Law Reform
Today leading Māori health and public health organisations called on the Crown to meet its obligations under Te Tiriti o…
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Amnesty International, Chester Borrows and JustSpeak call for action on Universal Children’s Day
It’s Universal Children’s Day 2019 and Amnesty International, along with Chester Borrows and JustSpeak are drawing attention to the issue of children being…
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Monitoring report suggests progress, but worst-off children need next steps urgently
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E tū Aviation to mark Erebus tragedy 40th anniversary
Every year E tū organises a commemoration service on 28 November to mark the anniversary of the Erebus tragedy. This…
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Many NZers fail basic general knowledge test – are we stupid or getting cleverly set up?
I was genuinely shocked at the low level of General Knowledge we seem to collectively have – I didn’t even think any of this was ‘knowledge’, just basic basic basic facts – “Is Winston Churchill a real person’ – I mean, WTF?
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So Labour’s response to our neoliberal public service is MORE neoliberalism?
I think I’m done with Labour.
Their response to our neoliberal public service is MORE neoliberalism???
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Labour must get Ihumātao off the political agenda before Christmas
There are two issues with Ihumātao, one is a wider existential issue and the other is Realpolitik.