Keeping New Zealand and New Zealanders safe is best done by the police under strong democratic oversight through parliament. We should abolish the SIS and GCSB – they contribute only to make New Zealand a target for terrorism.
As I am writing (Thursday, March 10), the New Zealand parliament has unanimously passed a law that will eliminate zero…
It would be an inordinate shame if the message the Indian community took away from this particular imbroglio was that New Zealand First didn’t want them to vote.
The mainstream media pundits just don’t get it. They don’t get it that the Bernie Sanders campaign has never been about “politics as usual”. Rather, it is “the politics of the unusual”.
The Government is considering the recommendations of a former Deputy Prime Minister and lawyer as it embarks on designing a new wave of controversial spy-law reform. And again, it looks certain to drive a wedge into contemporary New Zealand.
…so this Government will pass 3 strike laws for Corporate Hollywood and illegally spy on and arrest Kim Dotcom for copyright but are more than happy to steal music when it suits their interests.
I hope for the latter, I suspect the former.
Sorry to see the putting all our cows in one Beijing paddock strategy has failed abysmally and that we should have focused on producing high end product here instead of once again being a source of raw ingredients.
It is the privilege of historians to pinpoint the causes of an institution’s malaise, even when they have little to offer by way of immediate solutions.
When the history of the 20th and 21st centuries is written by future historians they will remark on the astonishing steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the face of the relentless brutality and oppression they are suffering at the hands of the Israeli army.