The passing of Peter Ellis
Once upon a time, the value of justice was ‘better 10 guilty people walk free than one innocent person jailed’.
New Zealand Politics
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RNZ embarrass themselves over free speech debate
I support free speech because when we limit it, the State always twists it to silence genuine dissidents. Painting that philosophical support as akin to right wing Nazi sympathisers is astonishingly dangerous and short sighted.
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Can National be trusted in China? Really?
by visiting China without chaperones, aren’t National a meth addict being left alone in a dealers house with a fresh glass pipe full of P sitting on the coffee table?
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Imagine the uproar if any other Political Party self censored the way the Greens just did
Instead of breaking free from the intellectual self censorship that is puritan Millennial micro-aggression policing Identity Politics culture, the Greens doubled down and just forced the opinion piece off a platform that is supposedly editorially independent of the Party.
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – Cancer Obsession is More Middle-Class Welfare
Back in 2018 I argued that Labour’s cornerstone policies – Fees Free tertiary, KiwiBuild, and the Families Package – were really for the middle class rather than the poor. They follow a theme continued from Helen Clark’s time in power, where interest-free student loans, Working for Families, and KiwiSaver all achieved similar outcomes.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Let’s REALLY Reset
Yesterday’s announcement by the government to reset Kiwibuild to include lower desposits, rent-to-own and shared equity schemes has welcome echoes of the scheme that allowed my “working class” Mum and Dad to build a new home in Christchurch in the early 1960’s.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Good to see Government moving on Loan Sharks
While this is a step very much in the right direction a rate of the 0.8 per cent per day cap on interest rates and fees over the life of a loan limited to 100 per cent of the amount borrowed, these draconian contracts will still be a poverty trap for many.
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The NZ measles epidemic – where ignorance, middle class cancer privilege, poverty and an underfunded health system and media industry collide
Threatening people with punishment for not vaccinating requires a state that will literally force its citizens to take injections, it’s hilarious that those who would cry nanny state first would cheer this second.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – dismantling Anti-Vaxxer conspiracies
Many people have commented on the last two posts and I would spend all of my day on Facebook answering the issues raised by individuals so let me just cover a few the larger issues and accusations raised.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Private Rights And the Public Good
Some people seem so wrapped up in their private rights these days they overlook the fact that the Public Good can override personal beliefs.