John Key and drugs
Every time Key is challenged on poverty or inequality, his default position seems to be to blame it on drugs.
politics
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Jordan Williams vs Colin Craig Defamation Case Week 1
It was fascinating watching the media response and the social media response at the same time. The mainstream media ran huge headlines for the supposed sexts and juicy details, yet there were no similar headlines when it turned out that Williams hadn’t actually seen this sext message.
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2016 – The Year of Political Spin
Unfortunately the dildo collection of a rich woman on Real Housewives of Auckland can generate more media attention than a Government’s continuos manipulations.
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60% Of Migrants Not On Skill-Shortages List – Why John Key REALLY Wants More Immigration
About a month ago, I lodged an Official Information Act request with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The object of my inquiry was to attempt to discover just how many of the people applying for New Zealand Residency were actually on the long-term skill shortages list.
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The new laws to make protestors terrorists
The speed with which the National Party have conned the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind to just hand over their civil rights is truly astonishing.
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Waitakere Licensing Trust could regulate cannabis like alcohol
New Zealand’s Liquor Licensing Trusts are a hangover from the days of prohibition and the temperance movement but provide a possible template for cannabis law reform.
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EXCLUSIVE: Why you must rally against the TPPA this Saturday
Rallies for Democracy that will be held around this country on Saturday 10th September, which link the TPPA to climate action, te Tiriti o Waitangi, social justice and workers’ rights, are the latest manifestation of that disquiet.
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Why leaving Chlöe Swarbrick out of the Mayoralty debates robs media of any credibility
If all RNZ and The Nation can muster is a regurgitation of vested interests from a bunch of candidates whose positions are well entrenched, then what’s the point of doing the debates in the first place?
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I stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
The grim brutality of America’s genocidal war against Native American’s has been thrust into the spotlight this week by the violent protests in Dakota on behalf of an Oil giant against the local Standing Rock Sioux Tribe…
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Dropping the Ball, or Saving the Game? A Response to Fran O’Sullivan
THE DEEP ANXIETY of the “Free Trade” lobby was on full display in this morning’s NZ Herald (7/9/16). Fran O’Sullivan, that most indefatigable of the Herald’s free trade advocates, was so moved by the uncertainty currently surrounding the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that she devoted a good chunk of her business column to the global fight against protectionism.