IHC congratulates new Disability Rights Commissioner
IHC New Zealand warmly welcomes Paula Tesoriero as the country’s new Disability Rights Commissioner. “Paula brings a unique perspective to…
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Inquiry into GCSB’s process for determining its foreign intelligence activity – Inspector General of Intelligence and Security
The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Cheryl Gwyn, released the public report of her inquiry into the Government Communications Security…
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Shine on the Family Violence Death Review Committee findings
The Family Violence Death Review Committee has today released their latest report outlining disturbing findings from the data collated during…
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Time for “diseased” electricity industry overhaul – Greenpeace
Greenpeace has called for an overhaul of the electricity industry after a complaint against a tax on solar was quashed…
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Inquiry into the Government Communications Security Bureau’s process for determining its foreign intelligence activity – Inspector General of Intelligence and Security
The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Cheryl Gwyn, released the public report of her inquiry into the Government Communications Security…
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Female Majority in Supreme Court Valuable Step in Advancing Gender Equity – NZ Bar Association
2017 saw the history-making sitting of the Supreme Court of New Zealand as a female-majority bench. The five-judge Court comprised…
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Todd Barclay Watch: Suddenly Bill English looks vulnerable
This is becoming more damaging than all the far more serious abuses of power because English is mishandling the issue with indecision. When Key got into trouble, he would go stone cold and flatly deny everything. Bill English on the other hand has looked like a possum in the headlights and that along with the hyperventilation tone from the media is what your average voter is picking up on.
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Todd Barclay’s secret taping pales into insignificance when compared to National Party abuses of power
National are a dirty politics political party who will lie, manipulate and twist every possible rule to get the power they want.
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Green Party Refugee Policy – moral, visionary and 100% unrealistic
Green Party have released their new Refugee Policy which is aspirational and righteous but utterly unrealistic.
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Director of Mental Health states DHBs have provisions to allow mental health unit patients to smoke – not followed by Waikato DHB
Dear Waikato DHB Board members – attached is a link to an article published today by Stuff in which the Director of Mental Health at the Ministry of Health, Dr John Crawshaw, made the following points in respect of smoking by inpatients at DHBs’ mental health units: