I heard Finance Minister Grant Robertson say on Morning Report today that he ” wasn’t expecting another financial crisis any time soon”.
Well, he and his advisors may not be expecting it, but surely one of the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis was that being so locked into maintaining ‘business as usual’ means we often fail to ask whether the usual way of doing business is the BEST way of doing it.
So effectively mediocre white men have been advanced over any actual promotion of ability and charisma which isn’t a criticism of National, it’s more a statement of fact that denotes the very values they stand and sit when their told for.
I’ve seen more dynamic yawns than this reshuffle, it manages to make the term Shadow Cabinet even less substantive. More like a Wraith Cabinet.
5: U.S. CYBERATTACK ON IRAN JUST PUT A TARGET ON AMERICAN BUSINESSES
4: ‘Climate apartheid’: World’s poor to suffer most from disasters
3: SUNRISE MOVEMENT RALLIES OUTSIDE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS OVER CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE FAILURE
2: As Trump Imposes New Sanctions, Iran Says U.S. Has “Permanently Closed Path to Diplomacy”
1: Trump threatens ‘obliteration’ after Iran suggests he has a ‘mental disorder’
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The forced importation of hardened Australian Organised Crime into a crime culture like NZ that has a far less violent nature has led to an explosion of gang related killings and assaults as the imported Crime Gangs immediately set to dominate the local versions.
HOW VERY DIFFERENT the university campuses of 2019 are from the campuses of 1981. Thirty-eight years is a long time. There will be lecturers and tutors on campus today who weren’t even born in the year the Springboks came to tour. To those whose job it is to look back into the darker episodes of our past, New Zealand must seem like another country. Just how much that other country differed from the New Zealand of today was driven home to me while listening to RNZ journalist Katie Scotcher’s story on this morning’s (24/6/19) edition of Morning Report.
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I would argue that Folau’s Instagram post was stupid speech (as opposed to hate speech) and it also seems a little hollow for Qantas to attack Folau, because they are partnered to Qatar Airways and Emirates. Qatar imprisons homosexual acts, and the UAE punishes homosexuality with the death penalty.
It’s easy to scream at a Pacific Island Rugby player over conservative religious opinions on social media but far harder to stand up to actual state sponsored repression against gay communities.
This won’t be about personal freedom, this will be about the State culling the weakest amongst us.
Green politicians are betraying disabled people by pretending their upcoming block vote for the End of Life Choice Bill complies…
