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Almost as soon as the #MeToo movement was unleashed in 2017, as a result of the accusations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, women like me began to wonder whether this movement would provide the impetus to break the stubborn gender gap in work, status, pay and roles around the western world.
CHRIS LUXON has some explaining to do. He has been identified as an evangelical Christian, which, if you’ll pardon the religious cliché, covers a multitude of sins. That’s why I believe Chris Luxon owes New Zealanders a working definition of evangelical Christianity – and how he intends to practice it.
SHANE JONES may just have come up with a sure-fire MMP threshold-busting election strategy. He has committed NZ First to formulating a comprehensive “population policy”. If handled adroitly, this exercise will likely evoke a strong electoral response from “native” New Zealanders. Almost certainly powerful enough to guarantee the party’s return to Parliament.
When somebody says or does something a bit gauche in politics and then seemingly doubles down upon it, there are two general explanations. Either it’s a genuine error which, out of pride or lack of comprehension of the nature of the sin, they’re refusing to extricate themselves from.
WHERE’S THE PLAN? Across the planet massive protests, like Californian forest fires, rage out of control. In Santiago, Chile, hundreds-of-thousands…
Minutes of an undated caucus meeting in Parliament House
It’s a compelling image – 25 years after the first democratic election in South Africa a black South African captain of the Springboks holds aloft the World Rugby Cup trophy on behalf of his country.
Monday marks the start of a three week hearing in the Auckland High Court over the leak of Winston Peters’ superannuation overpayment to the media. Winston has been greatly offended, to the tune of $1.8 million dollars and wants to get it at the taxpayers’ expense.
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was established as court of last resort for the prosecution of four international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. Whereas Australia, New Zealand and Palestine are States Parties to the Rome Statute, Israel and its close ally, the USA, choose to remain non-signatories.
Not that she didn’t value the job. It wasn’t all that taxing and the pay was great. But is this what a degree in Political Science and English Literature got you? Managing “Paulabots” in a National Party troll farm?