Middle class drug safety, low hanging sick pay fruit and meaningless climate change emergencies – but no houses sorry
Not the transformation we were all hoping for.
New Zealand Politics
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On National’s Unsafe Attitude Towards Drug Testing
Earlier this week, the Government announced that it was going to pick up one of the loose threads from the previous Parliamentary term – and pass measures to allow the testing of drugs at music festivals and the like, so as to reduce the risk of … well, serious harm occurring.
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Waterstone 2020 Political Review podcast with special guest Simon Bridges
Best politician 2020
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GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Stuff’s apology to Māori
The editorial stand taken by Stuff over future Māori issues and its historic Māori reporting must be applauded and acknowledged.
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Temporary migration system is broken – time for a reset with a path to residency
Employers in the agriculture sector who are screaming for help to pick their crops deserve to suffer a bit of pain.
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Palestinian rights and the IHRA definition of antisemitism
I don’t include the full text of anything in a blogpost but I’m making an exception here
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China ratcheting up tension with Australia
Well, that escalated quickly…
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GUEST BOG: Chris Leitch – Banks, Borrowing, Bonds, Silly Statements and Raging House Fires
Former NZ Prime Minister, John Key, while touring an engineering factory shortly after the Christchurch earthquake said ”If printing money…
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – The lengths corrections will go to keep prisoners ignorant of their rights
Was going through some old records from Pare looking for stuff for my book when I came across this…how Corrections used to do its utmost to restrict my contact with other prisoners so I couldn’t educate them.
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To Apologise For Your Country’s History, Is To Admit You Do Not Understand It.
THE DECISION BY STUFF to publish an all-purpose mea culpa for its racism towards Maori will be regretted.