Well said, Tracey. It is a bit difficult to understand how anyone could not see there is a problem with the current nature of the TPPA deal.
Not half as amazed as I am to "you guys'" credulity :???:
Yeah, lol, funny. Am just having a conversation on twitter re why we aren't learning fast enough that putting profit before life isn't working (subject is the Pike River Tragedy) - yet with something like this passport issue, no doubt, the lesson will be ...
Strangely, TVNZ has just reported (on the internet) that he got out of the country using his original birth name: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/convicted-murderer-fled-nz-chile-just-hours-after-temporary-prison-release-6126048
So true **sigh**
That is a very good point, Minarch. Confiscating passports would actually only serve to send the 'problem' underground.
Q. When is a Free Trade Deal not a Free Trade Deal? A. When it is called a Free Trade Deal but it is actually a Corporate Take-Over
+1 Jones
+1 Potato
@Wayne I was not claiming the logic you posit re 'we must be right on this issue as well'. All I am doing is pointing out, how erroneous it is to undermine the role of protest in our system.
@Wayne "It is worth noting the govt only ever listens to protest movements if they look like they are going to spread beyond the usual suspects. The schedule 4 protests were in that category, but deep sea mining and TPPA have not spread out. I would be ...
+1000 KJT
Bad attitudes toward others should not be being encouraged by our government nor by the policies they introduce. Compromising a workers' right for breaks encourages seriously unrealistic and bad attitudes toward workers and is also bad business practice. ...
Yes, very well said RedLogix
Depends if you consider consequences, Gormless Fool. Does an erroneous 1 degree shift in direction, leave you a long way away from where you planned to end up, when long distances are involved?
I don't think the right-wing newspapers should shut up. What they need to do is state their bias and interests transparently This could be a achieved by having a page dedicated to listing who owns the paper and what other business/financial interests they ...
+100 DTB
lol, that sums it up nicely
@ Ed I think it is great to look on the bright side of the leadership contest, and agree..... ...however I do feel the need to mention that if people commenting on the Standard 'appear to have picked up their opinions from the news media' then don't you ...
+1 Stever Exactly
+1 Leftie.
Sounds like it is Mr Bassett who needs to calm down. I suggest he take a few deep breaths prior to writing his next column.
Here is a dodgy article containing some sort of 'insider', who had alot to say: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10287781/Cunliffe-I-work-as-hard-as-anyone This 'insider' quoted in this article may not have been an MP. Did anyone track down who it ...
+1 Ma Rohemo :)
There are a fair few people, now, who realise that NZ's new brand is now "100% Pure Bullshit" (that is why we need a new flag). This shift is because that is what a majority of New Zealander's who vote seem to think is a winning quality. Too bad for those ...
+1
Question and Answer time is a chance that the opposition parties get to question the governments actions and decisions. Incorporating the opposition parties in parliamentary process in this way, is an important aspect of our democracy that helps to keep ...
I thought Ad was referring to the way National uses propaganda to appeal to our worst cultural values. i.e various forms of small-mindedness and bigotry, that, sadly, still appears to be mightily acceptable in this country, and becoming increasingly so ...
No, the best approach is to ensure there are decent jobs that cover costs, first. Then if there is still a problem perhaps you can start doing your Big Bro thing.
Nor is the best option what you suggest. Address the structural problems that are causing poverty. What is occurring is that those who are being most disadvantaged by poor government policies are being expected to have increasingly more of the government ...
@BM It is time to address the important point DoublePlus Good made: The majority of people in New Zealand need to do more research before they buy into that trope. Research into how things way outside of a parent’s control influence poverty – like ...
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