ACCORDING TO PATRICK DUNN, the Catholic Bishop of Auckland, his church is haemorrhaging “New Zealand-born” and “New Zealand-bred” followers. He calls this Pakeha turning away from the church “Kiwi Drift”. Its effects, says the Bishop, have been masked by the recent influx of thousands of Catholic migrants.
Mate, you can’t just not visit the Marae up and down the country who are opening their doors to let the homeless live there. They are doing the job you are so badly mishandling, they are actually housing the homeless, while all you can do is make more homeless and build tax havens.
The ban on zero-hour contracts in NZ attracted real interest from the UK media and an invitation for Unite Union representatives to speak to the growing campaign against these employment agreements in that country.
If you were breathing a sigh of relief that the TPPA may fall to the vagaries of US politics – perhaps the only good thing to come out of either a Clinton or Trump win, if they actually do as they say – I have bad news.
The selection of a gay nightclub in Orlando is an assault on the very freedoms a liberal progressive modern society strives for. It angers in a unique way, the premeditated sophistication to understand how such an attack would resonate within the culture.
He’s famous only for being the son of someone famous, laying claims to authenticity because his parents both once lived in state houses (lucky them), and using the same inane comments as his dad “at the end of the day”; this week, mainstream media’s focus on celebrity went to new lows. And that’s saying something!
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 recognises the Palestinian people’s inalienable right of return. Today there are over five million Palestinian refugees eligible for UNRWA protection.
I don’t hate Max and Stephanie Key because they are spoilt rich brats, I hate the privilege they represent. The vacancy of their existence and the manner in which they garnish success for themselves is a cultural vanity virus that should be avoided rather than celebrated.
Paula’s meltdown is the fault of National’s cruel and farcical social housing privatisation agenda. She’s going to take the fall for Bill English’s idealogical experiment and she’s too dumb to get yet that she’s the patsy. The solo Westie mum from struggle street whose own back story gives her the right to burn the entire Welfare State down in the name of ‘can-do’ tyranny.
Nothing quite spells “success” like a new Food Bank opening in a community near you.