The ABC's Background Briefing program has a brilliant piece on Monckton and his supporters: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2011/3268730.htm
Just thought I'd draw your attention to this interesting column that appeared in the Bay of Plenty Times yesterday: http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/have-your-say/news/winston-peters-ambulance-needed-up-top/3948567/ Peters' proposal is very similar to ...
The same happened in Christchurch, with a march of approximately 100-150 people, culminating in a speaker from the expat community and a speaker from the Greens.
The selection criteria for the Greens in a by election is that a 5 person panel choses the candidate, where 2 of the people are from the electorate, 1 from the province, and 2 appointed from the national executive. A ballot is held of all members in the ...
Peters refused to explicitly rule out working with National. His public statements, and those of Tau Henare, strongly indicated that NZF would not support a National-led government. But his position in early 1996 was that he would negotiate first with the ...
"To everyone’s astonishment Winston Peters then gave his party’s confidence and supply to a minority Bolger National Government even though the Labour Party had far more votes than the Nats." This is incorrect. In 1996, National got 33.87% of the vote. ...
Hey John: in your responsibility as minister responsibility of the GCSB, do you or your office have any information relating to the use of the Waihopai spybase for spying against the UN? In your responsibility as minister responsibility of the GCSB, do you...
John Key is such a try hard. This is all just self promotion and photo op. The whole farce of a 'secret' trip is yet another tragic attempt by Key to act like he's Obama and that terrorists might actually know who the hell he is.
politics of perception indeed. I love how under this government i can continue to use my 200 year old Edison lightbulb, but i may not keep my DNA, I may not keep my assets if I haven't been charged with anything, and my car will be childishly vindictively ...
i saw on the front page of the christchurch press earlier this week that the lawmakers want to drop the sex education at schools to the age of 9. personally i think thats a bit young to be teaching vonurable children about those sorts of things but i guess...
Correct me if i am wrong, but that was $2.2bn over 4 years? The contributions are $2bn each year, where is the other $18bn going to come from?
The problem with your analysis is that you assume the money invested in the Cullen Fund will be available to draw down over the immediate term as it returns 11-13% per year. By law it cannot, the capital of the Fund cannot be touched until 2027 (2030 after...
This is the secret agenda we were talking about before the election.
"Granted, Pilger's a dick, ..." Pilger is one of the best representatives of our side in a long time. He has dedicated his life to exposing the wrongs of empire in accessible ways without being patronizing. He has embarrassed the ruling classes on every ...
Israel broke the truce. This idea--that Hamas provoked Israel into attacking Gaza, and therefore bears primary responsibility for the bloodshed--serves as the primary justification for the Israeli military's war crimes. But it was Israel that broke the ...
I was wondering why the bottle looked so red white and blue, then I realised it is US initiated group. I think the local version should be called "drinking radically" and have a brown bottle.
"Free trade is basically a good idea." People accuse socialism of being a good idea - I am glad that now "free trade" has achieved this status. The difference I believe is that socialism is possible. Free trade, has been anything but free, even without ...
The headline should have been "Deplorable Auckland principal with longstanding antipathy to NCEA undermines kids' hard work just before exams with annual pile of crap"
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