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A quarter of a century ago today a young(ish) senior lecturer from the University of Canterbury was elected as a neophyte MP in the first MMP election. It is fair to say she was totally surprised, not to say shocked, by this turn of events.
LET’S PLAY A GAME. Let’s pretend we’re half-way through 2022.
It occurs that Judith Collins’ attack on Jacinda for being “missing in action” yesterday due to not being inside the…
Maybe down here in the South Island we are some kind of neanderthal beasts, unable to comprehend all the clever arguments for letting the Covid virus have its way.
It is the Ardern-led Government’s unwillingness to follow the Ciceronian legal principle of “sulus populi suprema lex esto” – the safety of the people shall be the highest law – that lies at the heart of New Zealand’s rapidly deepening Covid-19 crisis.
https://youtu.be/npscKqNp0Rc https://eveningreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AVFA_October_07_2021.m4a LIVE PODCST: In this episode of A View from Afar political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss…
MATTHEW HOOTON has raised the possibility of Jacinda Ardern being gone by Christmas.
IF EVER Labour’s Māori Caucus had a duty to speak up for the people they represent, it was this past week.
The Government’s medical cannabis scheme is now in full effect, but strict rules have taken away products that are used by thousands of patients, letting billionaires corner the market and no obvious path for smaller growers. The solution may lie in applying the Commerce Commission’s thinking for supermarkets to the medicinal cannabis sector, with five small changes that could make a big difference.
Many of the great civil rights movements of the postwar period stemmed from the desire of populations to be freed…