Waatea News Column – The new stolen generation of Māori children
Where is the outcry over this ramping up of seizing children and what extra resource has been put in place to protect those children once they have been taken?
Where is the outcry over this ramping up of seizing children and what extra resource has been put in place to protect those children once they have been taken?
Do our Chinese Overlords really have the power to simply stop evidence being heard in a New Zealand select committee? It would appear they do.Labour should hang its head in shame.
BACK IN THE DAYS when I boasted much more hair and carried far fewer kilos, I was right into (as we said back then) writing songs. One of those songs, The Other Side of Town, opened like this:
Well, the street has been my teacher
And poverty my nurse
Oh dear, how my family and friends chortled. “You wouldn’t know how to live out on the street if your life depended on it!”, snorted one.
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“…No ifs, no buts, no caveats, I will repeal this CGT as Prime Minister of New Zealand ” – a statement so categorical that it made John Key’s 2008 commitment never to raise GST, look timid;
“National is not going to be raising GST.National wants to cut taxes not raise taxes.”
Except, he did.
In October 2010, Key’s National government increased GST from 12.5% to 15%.
This is what Labor need to do, actually argue their values and stand up for them rather than looking like frightened children.
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