Dr Liz Gordon: Schooling for misogyny
The Royal Commission into sexual abuse in state care is tackling some thorny issues, but none more so than the ritual abuse suffered by students at so-called ‘top’ boys schools, both public and private.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Chris Leitch – Govt should buy Westpac
The potential sale of Westpac’s New Zealand banking operations provides a unique opportunity to return a significant slice of the country’s banking business to Kiwi ownership.
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Hey Labour, after bashing property speculators, how about big sugar, big banks, big plastic, big tech, big farts & big booze?
Property speculators are just like Casinos, booze barons and tobacco pimps – they are all necessary evils who require the jackboot of State regulation constantly applied to their throats to keep them in line.
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Dear Green Party – save us from the evil landlords because Labour won’t – demand rent freeze now!
Protect us because Jacinda won’t.
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If only we cared about hungry children and homelessness the way we do about Property Investors pain
This is what the political muscle of Gen X + Gen Y being larger than the Boomer voter block looks like.
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Simeon Brown robs Simon Bridges of his tough on gangs thunder
I love how Simon Brown through shear attrition has risen to be something of a thing in National because I think his Mr Bean awkward foolishness is comedic gold.
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Why We (Don’t) Fight
LIKE THE CELEBRATED DOG that didn’t bark, the New Zealand Left is proving itself a poor protector of the exploited.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Imagination required for transformation of housing.
Yes we have to increase our housing supply but we don’t have to do it by spreading our cities outwards and building over our best arable land.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – If it looks like data cleansing, barks like data cleansing, smells like data cleansing then it’s data cleansing
Last week Radio New Zealand’s ‘Nine to Noon’ programme ran an excellent item based on two quality interviews highlighting the unsavoury outcomes of patient harm data cleansing for those people who require non-acute (elective) surgery but are either severely delayed or miss out.
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Christopher Luxon goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about the great news that his friend Jesus has risen
To date, most criticism of National Party MP Christopher Luxon has been that he is a member of an elite…