What nonsense. You're the one being anti-democratic for denying the right to protest.
According to the CIA World Fact Book, the median age of New Zealand in 2020 was 37.5 years, while the median age of Canada was 41.8 years.
I know we Pākehā like to tell ourselves it's a partnership, but obviously in a colonised society with an obvious lack of equity, it isn't. We're conquerors that Māori, very graciously by signing the treaty, have acknowledged as "guests" for want of a ...
Just pointing out the obvious. Māori don't need Pākehā tone policing or respectability politics. This protest isn't for you.
I'm sure if Te Pāti Māori wants the nice Pākehā coloniser lady's opinion, they'll ask for it. Fulminating about a divided nation is NACT's line.
I notice you left out the part where the average age was 77 and around 62% of those were cancer related with the rest being equally unpleasant degenerative conditions. In which case it's demographically consistent with the approaching peak of the baby boom...
Unlike a lot of the potential local candidates for head of state, Charles at least cares about the environment
Nearly every socialist, communist and conservative party that has ever taken power? None of which I would call "Nazis". Get back to me when they start building camps and rounding people up.
It's not like she's declared any other preferred pronouns, love.
I think you're misreading toeing the line as vacuity. While it might not be saying much, she's smarter, or at least more cunning, than the likes of Luxon and Bishop, and she'll be seething about not getting the deputy PM job.
Pretty sure we crossed that particular Rubicon under David Lange
Oh, sweetie, no. I think anyone who has engaged in verbal badinage with him knows that qualifications mean little. He has a well-established litany of faux pas and f**kups behind him to prove it. You're just being contrarian now.
Chances are a pre-lawyered version was sent to the Dutch translator
This would be the same French who restored the monarchy four times after the Revolution? And the English tried it, decided they didn't like it very much, and restored Charles II, so there's that.
Quite likely, but it will be because Winston throws his toys 18 months in when he has to hand over to Seymour, not for any other reason. The common wisdom that voters don't do single term governments in this country still holds.
I don't think anyone has ever accused Bishop of being particularly bright or mentally agile, except, perhaps, himself
Was that link in the OP? No. Ergo, it was not evidence offered up. And it's very early days to reading that much into the tealeaves. I have no doubt National et al will make a pig's ear of it, but that's not the same thing as saying they don't care about ...
I was a regular until I got fed up with certain agendas hijacking every issue. I've dipped back in, not that it has anything to do with anything. Even if I was a tighty whitey righty, this platform doesn't exclude people on an ideological basis, and given ...
While it may be true that 59% of people with a landline may not know their arse from their elbow, the assumption that they are also one issue voters is not supported by the actual electoral results.
Given I think the Coalition is a disaster, why wouldn't I? It might be a foreign concept to the woolliest ride or die left, but some of us can manage a bit of objectivity and pragmatism when it comes to Realpolitik. Spare me the paranoid whataboutery.
Although people like you seem to be willfully obtuse about the fact, said funding was administered by NZ on Air, a completely independent body.
How many of them held public office and then publicly apologised for their behaviour?
You know, the need to assume an honest mistake as an intentional lie probably says loads more about you than it does about me.
Are we currently under threat or do the previous government's arrangements suffice in the meantime?
Really? Because I know loads of people, some of whom know him very well indeed, who have seen him on the sauce at the Green Parrot and elsewhere, lighting up will little concern for our public smoking laws. This is not exactly a secret. The main difference...
The special pleading became moot the moment Whanau publicly admitted to having a problem - which is responsible on her part, but not a particularly savvy political move. Once she did that it stopped being gossip and hearsay and became a matter of public ...
The new National coalition cares little about defence. Defence is surprisingly a large and under-appreciated strength for Labour. Well that's a bold assertion without a skerrick of evidence offered to back it up. What is the basis for the notion that the ...
Why would gangs take to knocking over pharmacies again, when the entire operation shifted post 2011 to rely on bulk black market pseudoephedrine from China? There's no point. For one thing it's extra effort for the gangs and invites even more police focus,...
Because debating it implies it has legitimacy.
Exactly. We have zero offensive capability and bugger all defensive capability even in our own EEZ (though I suspect the latter is being rapidly revisited). We are not directly involved, we have no capability to directly involve ourselves, and it is highly...
I greatly fear that even if Putin had a little accident, Russia has backed itself into a corner and the war might very well carry on under new management with only marginally different ambitions.
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