Peter Willcox was captain of the bombed Rainbow Warrior in Auckland in 1985. Now he has a new book out next week that tells his agenda-setting story over three decades from the Rainbow Warrior sabotage to being thrown into Russian jails for two months and charged with piracy as skipper of the Arctic Sunrise in an oil drilling rig protest.
The disconnect between the Left and middle NZ has grown even more wide with the latest TVNZ Poll showing Labour tumble 4 points and National jump 3 points.
Beyond the sycophantic praise of the CYFs report from pundits who have been won over by Anne Tolley’s spin lines, the reality is that this latest CYFs whitewash reform will begin the next stolen generation of Maori and Pacific Island children.
Staff subsequently have spread rumours that if inmates contact the League , it will go against them at their Parole hearing .
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The hypocrisy is absolutely breathtaking and shows the lack of moral compass of this “government”.
THAT THE SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SIS) has failed to protect the privacy of the people it has “vetted” is no surprise. Information is power, and what is the SIS if not the official gatherer of the information by which the power of the state is protected?
Labour inspectors have found that every one of the 20 employers they have looked at so far were found to have breached the 2003 Holidays Act.
After all the ‘everyone will get to have a say on the TPPA’ promises, the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee have decided to cut the time to consider submissions against the TPPA from a month to 5 days