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The New Zealand Government has repeatedly offered to take at least 150 of the refugees marooned on Nauru. The Australians have brushed aside all such offers with sneering contempt. After all, what can the Kiwis do about it? What can the Kiwis do about it? Nothing. What could the Kiwis do about it with a radically re-configured and re-equipped NZDF? Plenty.
You know, it is the most curious thing. I opened my newspaper earlier in the week (not in a web-browser,…
This isn’t rocket science, and we don’t need to reinvent the wheel. To get a good medicinal cannabis law, we just need to focus on patients.
It is worrying in the extreme that a situation of unjust imprisonment may be welcomed ‘just because’ it may make somebody else feel a little bit safer – indeed, it is tantamount to starting down the greased incline of asking whether certain segments of the population ought be ‘walled off’ for the general protection of the rest of us even regardless of whether they’ve actually been proven to have committed any crime.
why is it that Netanyahu’s horrific rhetoric toward Iran doesn’t seem to attract nearly as much attention in the media as the disputed statement made some 13 years ago by the former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Last week it became public knowledge that 22 workers from one Warehouse store have made written allegations of bullying against their store manager.
WHY CAN’T WE get public transport right in New Zealand’s largest city? Visit any other world city and you will find buses, trams, light-rail networks and extraordinarily fast and efficient heavy rail services. Literally millions of people avail themselves of these services every day.
When Helen Clark’s Labour government came to power in 1999 there were 14,000 “non-casino” pokie machines in New Zealand. Four years later there were 25,000.
Labour was asleep at the wheel.
The government “couldn’t” borrow directly because they had imposed an arbitrary limit on themselves that belongs in the realm of voodoo economics rather than science.
Thank you for responding to my letter of concern about the behaviour of the NZ Honorary Consul in Israel during my detention in that country for trying to break the siege of Gaza and deliver medical supplies to that part of Palestine.
