Waatea News Column: Dome Valley Shock Decision – Opportunity for Maori Party to outshine Greens
Dome Valley gives the Maori Party nationwide exposure on Chinese influence and local decision making in a way the Greens can’t follow.
New Zealand Politics
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MEDIAWATCH: Stuff wants a pat on the back for burning a book they hadn’t read
You can see why the Right see so much fertile voting possibility in cancel culture.
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GUEST BLOG: Professor Felicity Goodyear-Smith – Faulty assumptions underpin Sexual Violence Bill
The Sexual Violence Bill, currently before Parliament, looks to increase convictions by effectively revoking the defendant’s right to silence, and prohibiting types of evidence tending to indicate innocence. As an academic, qualified forensic physician, and expert witness in sexual cases (for both sides), I am concerned by the rationale for this bill.
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Winston enters the crowded Cancel Culture backlash market & Vance’s latest column
Guess who’s back.
Back again.
Winnie’s back.
Tell a friend.
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The Liberal Agenda – 40th anniversary of the 1981 Springbok Tour
I hope to meet up with a lot of Daily blog readers around the country during this tour.
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MEDIAWATCH: Why Damien Grant’s fears of a Police State in NZ are so well founded
Drug bust was a huge coup – but the surveillance should trouble free citizens This latest huge bust, in a…
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Why do National & ACT MPs want to start violence at gang funerals?
Outlaws burying a fallen Comrade are to be tolerated the way militant cyclists crossing the bridge are tolerated the way Maori rights occupations are tolerated the way environmental protest actions are tolerated etc etc etc BECAUSE the use of State force required to suppress those events far outweighs whatever preservation of pearl clutching public order demands.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Funding Sport
Thanks for your engagement with my America’s Cup post the other day. I saw a couple of comments raising the…
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More neoliberal free market cows to slaughter!
Where’s your God Milton Friedman now?
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This bloody bike bridge is going to be the Phil Twyfordication of poor Michael Wood
When you have 23,687 desperate people on the public housing wait list, a billion dollar vanity project for militant middle class cyclists is outrageous.