Mining fiasco highlights Green Party impotency
Nothing manages to sum up the impotency of the Greens in power quite like any decision by the Ministry captured Minister Sage or this fiasco over mining…
New Zealand Politics
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MEDIAWATCH: Precious Journalists behind Paywalls shouldn’t throw RNZ rocks
Nothing is more gloriously tedious in the schoolyard of life than bitchy media companies playing Mean Girls with one another and then competing to virtue signal their outrage olympics as to who has been hurt the most.
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Remembering Jeanette Fitzsimons, a great Green
The news of Jeanette Fitzsimons’ death is so sad for me as a friend and former parliamentary colleague. She symbolized Green politics and was totally committed to the welfare of the planet and the people on it.
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RIP Jeanette Fitzsimons
She forged a new leadership for women, she defined a completely different set of values for public discourse and humanity between people.
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It’s time to accept the enormity of the pandemic facing us
It’s time to start preparing for a unique one off generation event here.
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Surprise surprise – NZ cops abuse being armed – just like we warned
We trust the Police with this extra power and they can’t help themselves but abuse it.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – MISSION CREEP
The police tell us everything is tickety-boo.
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There’s Method In Shane Jones’s “Racist” Madness.
WHAT IS SHANE JONES trying to do? In speaking so insultingly about the Indian student community he must have known he’d attract the ire of the people he calls “Ngati Woke”. Was he being provocative just for the hell of it, or did he have a more coherent political motive for courting accusations of racism and xenophobia?
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Dow drops 789 points as Fed tries to put out Wall St fire with gasoline – are we allowed to acknowledge Wuhan virus is an enormous threat yet?
The reality is the threat of this pandemic will only abate once we have a vaccination, and that’s 18months away – things are going to get a lot, lot, lot worse public health wise and economically before they can get better.
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Abortion Law reform passes second reading – well done Parliament
Very powerful and raw debates in the second reading of the Abortion Bill last night in Parliament.