Ummm, what sort of Marriage would require Paula Bennett as celebrant?
I feel like this needs to be a reality TV show or a political satire funded by NZ on Air.
New Zealand Politics
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Get well soon Cameron – the NZ blogosphere isn’t the same without you
I’m sure we will see you on the battlefield again Slater. Best of luck to you, your team and your family in overcoming the challenges ahead.
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GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – Let’s Rethink New Zealand’s Low Cost Tourism Strategy
Not only is cheap tourism degrading our environment and our infrastructure, but it is also contributing to our appalling record over the past ten years of gas emissions increases when they were meant to be decreasing.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Our housing is severely unaffordable
The latest international Demgraphia survey (which looks at house prices vs incomes) tells us what we have known for many years now – that housing in our country is severerly unaffordable.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Simon Bridges outraged at kindness
In December 2013 the proportion of working age New Zealanders receiving job seeker support was 4.8%
A year later in December 2014 this had fallen to 4.5%
Now in December 2018 despite an average 2.1% population growth rate every year the proportion is still 4.5% and Simon Bridges is outraged.
He is outraged because he blames kindness towards people on inadequate incomes.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – The truth behind Corrections public veneer of concern
My High Court claim against the Crown (as agent for Corrections Dept) for numerous abuses in custody and arbitrary withholding of inmates’ mail without lawful grounds and without informing the , begins February 11.
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Cannabis predictions and crystal ball gazing
Last year was an absolute humdinger for cannabis, with legislative changes for hemp foods and medicinal cannabis, confirmation the cannabis referendum will be binding and held at the next election, and so much activity it was hard to keep up. It seems the stars are aligned and, although we must not become complacent, this is finally the moment when cannabis law reform can actually happen in New Zealand. Here are my predictions for what will play out this year.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Patrick Smellie, Matthew Hooton and Fran O’Sullivan order a large plate of ghost wedges
The “Peters is rogue on Foreign policy” wedge theory has no compelling evidence to support it and neither Patrick Smellie, Professor Robert Ayson nor Matthew Hooton have furnished any.
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EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: They Spy With Their Little Eye – NZ Spy Scandal: The Elephants In The Room
The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New Zealand, writes exiled Kiwi journalist Suzie Dawson.
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GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – Latest research shows Antarctica now losing 252 billion tonnes of ice a year – Māori Climate Commissioner calls for urgent climate action now!
Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, has said the latest research from the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows we need urgent climate action now.