Basic benefit values were cut from 40% to 30 percent of the average wage in the early-1990s. Those cuts were dubbed Ruthenasia in recognition of the role of the then Minister of Finance of the newly-elected National Party Ruth Richardson who delivered the budget with the cuts.
Why should an industry that takes and takes and takes and seems to give so little back be allowed a free ride for so long? If the planet is running out of pristine places, than what we have should be set at a premium price.
Since when did a company that benefits from destroying rainforests while using child labour get to lecture the rest of us about masculinity?
If we are finished misidentifying annoying British tourists as Irish and chasing them out of town for littering – the planet is melting…
…after being busted as a self censoring propaganda outlet for China, the advert should look like this…
We simply can not juggle multiple ideas that social policy must protect life over property, that teenagers do stupid things and that changing our chase policy – AS MANY OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE – to only chasing violent offenders is too much for your ordinary Kiwi to comprehend all at the same time.
When a teenager runs from NZ cops – they deserve to die. Respect my authority.
Schools shouldn’t feed hungry kids, it’s the parents fault.
You only have something to fear if you have something to hide mass surveillance justifications.
This is the age of Millennial micro-aggression policing where subjective rage trumps all other realities…
..I’ve often said the only moment this insanity of allowing cops to chase kids to death will ever change is if the victims are white middle class kids, because when it’s brown poor teenagers dying, middle NZ doesn’t give two shits, but the millisecond it’s kids they recognise and can identify with, well then brothers and sisters SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!
How many times does the NZ Herald have to be caught promoting manipulative and secret interests before you write it off as a legitimate source?
