Soooooo who wants to buy Peter Jackson a new private jet?
We want more film to be filmed here and we want our arts industry to thrive but not at the cost of another propaganda victory for National.
New Zealand Politics
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Why Simeon Brown is the problem
You want to eliminate the synthetic cannabis industry? Legalise the actual cannabis industry!
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Semi-hysterical bosses show government is on the right track
The semi-hysterical response from employers to the Labour government’s mild (Oh so mild!) plans to reform Labour relations show the government is on the right track.
New Zealand is a low-wage economy after the crushing of unions in 1991 through the Employment Contracts Act and that’s the way the bosses love it.
And they are fighting to keep it that way.
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Dave Macpherson – Mental Health Inquiry Panel visiting our towns
Waikato DHB, and the psychiatric profession copped a hammering, again in equal parts, from current and former patients, from families and whanau, and also from a few community mental health sector staff whose frustrations mirrored those coming from the community itself.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – Secret reports – plausible denial: Auckland Council’s Winter of Discontent
It’s certainly proving to be a Winter of Discontent within the Auckland Council. It’s this discontent that was behind the recent letter expressing ‘strong dissatisfaction’ with the ‘secretive and non-inclusive’ leadership style of Mayor Phil Goff, signed by nine councillors including myself
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Why media are lying about gang members in prison
Proof that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Yay – carbon neutral by 2050 – wow, aren’t we great! Pity the polar ice caps will be melted by 2030
…climate change is here, it is now, we have run out of time. We need to be focused on becoming an adaptation culture and economy, proclaiming carbon neutral by 2050 is meaningless sophistry. It will be far too fucking late by 2050.
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David Parker starts moving chess pieces in looming LOTR/Hobbit Law backlash
…by questioning putting more money into Peter Jackson being able to buy a new private jet, the Government are immediately reducing the leverage National might generate by screaming the LOTR series won’t be filmed here as the response from taxpayers will be ‘good’.
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If only the NZDF had put as much effort in not committing war crimes as they do in taking down graffiti accusing them of committing war crimes
This is a military who have smeared journalists, manipulated the truth, told outright falsehoods and have been caught red handed with allegations of war crimes.
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Louise Nicholas, post #MeToo, the sado-masochistic pack rape culture of the 1980s NZ Police & Nashy has a shocker
Unless Louise Nicholas can be brought on board and to publicly support this appointment, Haumaha is going to have to stand down.