Clare Curran has done the right thing for the Government by removing herself from being used as a way to undermine its credibility – she has shown grace and should be congratulated for thinking of the movement and not her ego.
GEORGE LIFTED HIS HAND in greeting as Martyn entered the bar. At two o’clock on a rainy afternoon in early September the place was virtually empty.
MFAT played this new Government over the TPPA and they played them at Nauru, Jacinda and Winston should demand explanations as to how and why this became a fiasco.
The NZ Left, Woke Twitter, the Emerald Stormtroopers, anyone who works at the Spinoff, micro aggression policing Millennials, PSA Staff, cyclists, vegans, subscribers to ActionStation, most of the Green Party Caucus, Fourth Wave Feminists, gender binary activists and the Wellington Twitterati desperately need to see this video.
The New Zealand Government has repeatedly offered to take at least 150 of the refugees marooned on Nauru. The Australians have brushed aside all such offers with sneering contempt. After all, what can the Kiwis do about it? What can the Kiwis do about it? Nothing. What could the Kiwis do about it with a radically re-configured and re-equipped NZDF? Plenty.
You know, it is the most curious thing. I opened my newspaper earlier in the week (not in a web-browser,…
…I had figuratively compared what was going on to the Salam Witch trials of the late 1600s because that was the last time we allowed allegation to be the evidential threshold, but it’s actually literal here when you consider the role of a person who claims to have magical powers in being the accuser.
This isn’t rocket science, and we don’t need to reinvent the wheel. To get a good medicinal cannabis law, we just need to focus on patients.
These public servants who suddenly find the ability to treat the most vulnerable with dignity without any change to policy should be sacked not celebrated, what the fuck were you doing in the first place?
It is worrying in the extreme that a situation of unjust imprisonment may be welcomed ‘just because’ it may make somebody else feel a little bit safer – indeed, it is tantamount to starting down the greased incline of asking whether certain segments of the population ought be ‘walled off’ for the general protection of the rest of us even regardless of whether they’ve actually been proven to have committed any crime.