National Party speaking out of both sides of their mouth over free speech
Does that mean, according to National, that you get freedom of speech if you are white, but not of you are brown?
Does that mean, according to National, that you get freedom of speech if you are white, but not of you are brown?
What the collapse in business confidence really says is the entire entrepreneur class of NZ relied on mass immigration, low wages and an underfunded social infrastructure – this is why neoliberal capitalism is a failure.
The shocking spike in the number of deaths from synthetic cannabis is a direct result of Parliament scrapping the Psychoactive Substances Act and the continued cannabis prohibition- NZ MPs have blood on their hands!
Latest reports: The IOF takeover of the boat was violent – conducted by armed and masked soldiers – many passengers & crew were assaulted, roughly handled and hit. Three were tasered, including Mike, as they refused move from the wheelhouse. Mike and one other crewman were tightly handcuffed.
Winston was a great Acting Prime Minister, there was nothing to ever worry about and watching those same right wing pundits trying to back peddle from their previous criticisms, even though they were made only 6 weeks ago, is a reminder of the echo chamber of the elite media pundits and just how limited the actual range of opinions the mainstream media provide.
TO HEAR THE National Party and other assorted right-wing beasts tell the story, the Greens have just sold their soul to the Devil. By whom they mean, presumably, that double-breasted Lucifer, Winston Peters, and his attendant pandemonium – NZ First. The Devil’s price, allegedly, is Green Party support for Winston’s “Waka-Jumping Bill”.
What most commentators have failed to grasp is that National didn’t offer any real new policy because they don’t have to.
National desperately want to revive the Hobbit Law victory they had last time against Actors Equity that delivered John Key such an enormous political victory.
Much has been written in scorn of the Greens somehow losing their moral and ethical compass in supporting the waka jumping legislation.
I am not one of them.
In New Zealand, across the world, the cultural response to mental health in the workplace is troubling. Broadly there’s been a lot of progress tackling the mental health stigma in recent years, but workplaces have not caught up to the important discussions happening in wider society.