The fundamental problem with Oranga Tamariki’s uplift apology is that it’s not really an apology at all because they still believe they had every right to take the infant and are apologising for the lack of communication.
It is often said that when a politician or other public figure says something disparaging about a particular group, that the weight and impact of their words is not only in what they’ve said … but also what further statements, what further actions it tacitly allows, invites, and encourages.
A day after the Labour Government jaw droopingly suggested enormous Police State powers against anyone ever being around guns, video footage appears proving the very concerns many of us made about roving armed police squads…
If the members of Generation X and the Millennial Generation really want to improve their lifestyles, then they should force up the price of complicity in class oppression by threatening to embrace or, even better, adopt for a generation or two, the precepts of Marx’s class struggle.
The Greens actual economic model is pure free market liberalism in gender neutral drag – all they want to do is include the price of pollution in the cost & let the market do the rest.
My fear is that the Wellington Woke won’t be able to contain themselves and inadvertently hand ACT an enormous political win in the ongoing freedom of speech culture war.
There are 24.5 million Australians.
There are barely 5 million of us.
How are we going to cope politically and culturally if swamped by our larger neighbour?
This isn’t about protecting the public from guns, this is about gaining new means to explore anyone associated with guns.
News reports this week covered the Coronial inquest into the tragic killing of five-year-old Leon Jayet-Cole – beaten to death…
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.