"infantilising" was a very poor word choice when discussing abortion given one of the two people in the equation is not even given the dignity of being treated like an infant.
One per cent please 23 July How much does it take to run our country? Take a look at a website page from the Treasury titled 'Total Crown Expenses by functional classification', and you'll see government spent $92.170 billion in the 2014 financial year. ...
Having the highest rates of reported domestic violence in the world is actually a very good thing. Domestic violence reporting in the particular pacific island country where I work has increased 10 fold in the last year and we are celebrating! This ...
I think people who really need it and can justify why they appreciate and qualify for euthanasia should be allowed to get it. It is such a dense issue and I said there are ramifications that a both positive and negative but I think that most of the impact ...
I would often buy the paper just to read Michele Hewitson's interviews. Won't be doing that anymore.
My view on Euthanasia is that it could be a positive option to those who would appreciate it most. There are plenty of cases in which someone has wanted to decide when they die as opposed to a terminal illness deciding for them. My only crux with this ...
“Housing New Zealand has sufficient cash to invest in new houses and at the level that we’ve specified, and to do its maintenance programmes,” he (Bill English) said. He also directly contradicted himself, saying that the maintenance checks were many ...
Bloody good work from Mahesh Bindra I thought to take the questions that had already been put to Lotu-liga and then nail him to the wall. It was the parliamentary equivalent of the winger scoring in the corner after the ball has gone through many pairs of ...
On a tangent, it's nice to see Maori TV getting stuck into international news: Gaza flotilla participants
If Labour is looking to grab back some of the middle ground an obvious and long neglected area is defence. There is a huge opportunity to revamp and strengthen our defence force in a way that is consistent with the good of all New Zealanders and could ...
This is a fairly common practice by the US. I worked for an NZ online pharmacy that was selling into the US. They were constantly having to find new payment methods as Visa and Mastercard kept blocking payments. There really needs to be a independent ...
No, I believe that there were many other alternatives available. At no time do I say that I'm a supporter of Roger Douglas. What I say is that the economy needed radical overhaul. That reform had to happen. Incremental reforms could have led to a radical ...
Nonsense is it? Always good to be look at thinks through 20/20 hindsight. So please elaborate what your "gradual economic reform process is". So by your term "strategic assets" I am assuming that you would be happy with the sale of hotels, Government Print...
Sorry, in order to condense I used the term bankruptcy. I meant the currency crisis, the lack of financial reserves, the need for Muldoon to have frozen wages, the failure of protectionist economic policies, high inflation, debt from the "Think Big" ...
I am always intrigued by this needing to apologise for the reforms of the Fourth Labour Government. Admittingly, the sequence of the reforms was wrong, (Roger Douglas admits this himself), but something had to be done to fix the NZ economy. The ...
I wonder why people are not so angry at National and the Ruth Richardson "experience" in the 1990s. I would suggest National's social and employment reforms were at the very least the same if not more damaging than Labour's. People are forgetting that in ...
You banned my husband for saying about WFF being $157 per week. read that page you linked again... http://www.ird.govt.nz/wff-tax-credits/entitlement/who-qualifies/tested-benefits/ "If you receive any of these benefits, you are only entitled to family tax ...
Gosman...the paper would go under so fast..not enough people would read it..all negative news..you can only write so many good news stories about David C...Anyway isn't this blog doing the job anyway..
Yes she did, even using union money to do her house up....think about it.
If only he was a good leader they would have less to use against him, in the mean time he invites this type of comment. I guess if we don't like the truth we can censor this blog and put our blinkers on.
Clark would have done the same thing, A PM can't be seen to go round saying "sorry" before a situation has been tried before the courts. Remember this Malaysian guy is innocence until he has had his day in court. I am not defending him, but I do understand...
Please watch 3 news where he in no terms states he made a mistake saying "I sorry for being a man" as well as his red scarf and the holiday. If Labour are to have a chance then he needs to zip his lip, I bet within a week he will have made the same mistake...
Labour have no money...and it looks like they will not be putting their leaders photo on the billboards which sort of tells me that they in a self preservation mode, as we see from Davis, Mallard and O'Connor.
And of course the rockets sent from Hamas mostly are fired from Hospitals and Schools, they wonder why the return Rockets land in exactly the same places.I see fault on both sides but I get tired of the Palestinians on the news every night parading the ...
That was Royce - Davis is above such antics
Haven't we learned our lesson with the Gulf, this self destruction mentality that we have is quite incredible. The worst part is that we have no excuse anymore, the average person now knows the dangers of not taking care of our planet
They don't, but every single answer to a question can end with "But LAAYBOUR thinks its okay to hide offshore bank accounts!!!" Meaning it will make the opposition's job of questioning the govt impossible.
Shearer's tenure is just getting sad to watch.
Well, at least someone in the rugby community has an environmental conscience. Good on Smith for getting behind this campaign, because as you all point out, now the attention and heat will go on him. The other prominent New Zealanders aren't really taking ...
Yes, I know you blog too. Incidentally, The Daily Blog has outstripped my now defunct blog by a factor of about 55000 times the number of views a week. I more meant it as a general question to springboard off yours, if anyone knows, it would be interesting...
If I may, how does that compare to the Standard? I'm guessing TS is a fair way ahead still?
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