Thank you for this fine piece Micky. May I add that I find the naivety of certain NZ journalists to be surprising. This whole Kiri Allan story is clearly a National Party Dirty Politics beat-up; and clearly part of their tactics of not being able to ...
Heyyyyyy, wheres the pizzaaaa
Why are we not getting inundated with polls ? Do the Nats want to keep the slippery slope secret?
especially sleeping with your eyes closed. Ridiculous!
So it's OK for Tainui to develop the land, but not Fletchers? What am I missing here? Reminds me of when Tainui and local iwi vehemently objected to Watercare placing biosolids on nearby Puketutu Island on the basis that the island was sacred. The ...
Has anyone been able to find out how many letters to the editor in THE NZ HERALD are written by the Nats under false names?
I didn't know what rational wiki was before. Now I do. I don't feel improved for it.
Exactly
Most of the claims of overpopulation I've heard aren't directed at 'poor brown people' but at all of us. Overpopulation is a myth, but but it's not a racist myth it's a homicidal anti-human myth. There is plenty of space in the world, there is plenty of ...
Thanks McFlock and AB. I see now. Still disagree completely with using the 'child' qualifier but I see why they have.
Why 'child' poverty though? Why not just poverty? I honestly don't understand why we place a qualifier on addressing poverty - can someone help me understand?
Labour are planing to increase personal tax aren't they? New lower tax rates have been legislatedoing to take effect next year and Labour would have to pass a law to make them higher again. You're either happy about it or not but that doesn't change the ...
What possible reason would anyone have to 'go after Bennett' for benefit fraud? Just because a bunch of vindictive petitioners with no evidence or admission of fraud from Bennett want to attack her? Come on ...
I hear you. I wasn't really comparing her to the others as much as comparing her to what I thought about her a week ago. She is now little different than the rest to me and I used to think a little more highly of her.
Your 20 year comment is not the way I think about it at all. Todd Barclay is an example from less than a month ago of a person that Turei was criticising for decisions he made in his mid-20's.
Turei is being held to the standards that she has routinely and extremely vocally insisted upon for other MP's.
Hi Jeremy, I don't know Meteria personally but until last week I thought of her as a vocal champion of transparency and accountability in government (whether I agreed with her policies or not). On their own each of the fraud revelations are of little ...
Yes, the police must co-operate with Nats to get their funding - and what about the police investigating the others involved ?
You're absolutely right about incidence vs. reported incidence and it's obvious to anyone who spends even a moment thinking about it. Family violence is massively under-reported. I work in a developing country in a programme to strengthen law and justice ...
Calling Jones anti-environment because he doesn't want to work with the Greens is rubbish. For most people, including Jones I suspect, it's not the Green Party's environmental policies that are unpalatable, it's the other hard left socialist policies that ...
Henry Filth ... I'm starting to think you're trolling now : ) I seriously hope that you understand where tax money comes from - our income. IRD doesn't just magic it out of nowhere. I would ask you the same question based on your take on things.
Henry Filth, I think you have a very different definition of production than me. IRD administers the rules and channels the flow of tax revenue but produces nothing at all. Every person employed at IRD, every software package developed and maintained to ...
IRD produces nothing and only needs so many staff because their systems are so outdated and our tax requirements are so complicated. I take the announced job cuts as a positive sign that they are finally getting their act together. The $105 million dollars...
People are getting confused with the woeful anti- cancer medicines which the pharmaceutical companies have produced up till now; and the new anti -cancer medicines which have an entirely different approach by working with the immune system. I think these ...
'What would the adoption of John Key’s flag symbolise?' It appears that throughout this exercise, we haven't looked carefully at the symbolism of colour. Black and blue. What are the word associations with that? We live in a country with appallingly high ...
Thank you for posting Metiria Turei's speech. I am surprised that, given the opportunity to assert that the Green Party policies are not radical, she didn't make any international comparisons. In a conversation once with Kennedy Graham, Green Party MP and ...
I don't agree. The Green press office is very effective at getting quick press releases out, and it shows when their comments get picked up as the opposition to government policy, at least in news stories. Opinion pieces are different, but there too there ...
Yes, that he is Sabine ... a sexual pervert.. with dubious business dealings in his past
None of the New Zealander's being held on Christmas Island are murder or rapists, The other parties are backing better treatment for those New Zealanders detained. At no time have any of the paries said anything different. Seriously, you must be a Key/...
Yes, and I believe they should be applied to all human beings; without any of the caveats you've included.
It all depends on what you believe I suppose. I think the beliefs stated by Andrew Little during his speech sum up my views on this quite well: "I believe in dignity. The dignity of the person matters most; and every person must have the opportunity to ...
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