Foreign Affairs Officials sell us out on human rights
We should speak clearly against human rights abuses wherever they occur. Ethics and morality should be the guiding principles we follow rather than sycophancy to the biggest schoolyard bullies.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
I found myself looking up this famous quote, attributed the Danish existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, the other day because I…
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The slow path to wage justice
Writing ironically, Anatole France said there’s a ‘majestic equality’ in the law that prohibits both the rich and the poor…
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Where does an ACT Party backbench nobody get off attacking Willie Jackson?
Where does this nothing nobody from the tail end of the ACT Party cavalcade of political circus freaks get off claiming there isn’t institutional racism?
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Why Jacinda will win 2023 despite housing, poverty, inequality & mental health crisis
Jacinda and Grant are heroic when it comes to big calls in the midst of crisis, but when it comes to actual progressive reform, they are as Bernard Hickey points out, still peddling tinkering rather than transformative change…
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GUEST BLOG: Nadine McDonnell – The new gold rush…. housing in the 21st Century?
A hundred or so years ago the discovery of gold somewhere in the ‘new’ world triggered a new disease of…
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GUEST BLOG: Patrick John O’Dea – Meet the bullet trains of the sea
On the news that the Government has extended $600 million extra in credit to keep Air New Zealand in the air.
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New Roy Morgan Poll shows TDB theory on ACT cannibalising National
TDB has been a lone political voice warning that ACT’s extraordinary election result was no fluke and represents a new seismic shift on the Right.
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Waatea News Column: More Maori men will be found guilty of sexual assault thanks to law change
Lady Heeni Phillips-Williams was scathing of Jan Logie and the Greens for pursuing such an enormous change in the law.
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Golriz Ghahraman insinuates Jacinda is racist – cue eye-rolling now
Jacinda isn’t racist, she’s trying to protect NZ.