UPDATE: Is the online Flag Referendum easy to hack?
The tipoff line is suggesting that there is an easy way to hack the overseas voting option on the Government’s website…
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What the flag referendum – win or lose – might mean for Key and why the stakes are so high
The results of this vanity project will be out by Thursday this week – for Key, the high stakes game of chicken he is playing with the public will have either two results, he wins his flag choice or he loses it.
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Shortlisted state house buyers dominated by profit
New Zealand needs more state housing, not less. We are in the middle of a housing crisis for low and middle income New Zealanders and only the government has the resources and the capacity to provide the large number of quality, affordable housing so desperately needed.
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Winston Peters, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump
So let’s be clear about this, going forward. Pretty much every “X IS DONALD TRUMP!” comparison you hear going forward is going to be little more than a petty political barb wrapped up in current affairs like takeaway fish and chips. The only substance involved in many of them is hairspray.
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NZs homophobic, anti-disability, anti-solo parent adoption laws
Of late I’ve been trying to get my head around the discriminatory adoption laws the Human Rights Review Tribunal has recently bought to public awareness.
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Interpreting the new Roy Morgan Poll
National’s popularity is kept high due to the property prices going up. Middle class support stops the moment that bubble pops, the Opposition still has some way to go to beat National – but it’s far less pessimistic than the mainstream media or Matthew Hooton are braying.
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Herald bashing of Andrew Little is extraordinary in week PM lies about Jihadi Brides & Police smash Hager’s property
So what would you expect to be the main story of the week that the Political Editor and Editorial of the largest newspaper in NZ focus on?
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – Change in the air for West Papua? Melanesia leads the way.
It is great to watch the Solomon Islands establishing itself as a champion of human rights for West Papua.
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NZ mainstream media surprised corporations have enormous power
I like Matt Nippert, he is one of the best journalists we have, but the surprise so many of his peers seem to have had at his piece on how multi-nationals avoid paying tax says more about them than the corporations.
It’s like some have just discovered Santa Claus isn’t real.
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The real issue is the exploitation of migrant labour by big business
The Labour Party has been trapped into appearing as being opposed to migrant workers in New Zealand.