Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:22 am, December 5th, 2017 - 30 comments
The Australian Parliament voted yesterday, against the Government’s wishes, to accept New Zealand’s offer to take refugees from Manus Island. At least for a short time.
Written By: Bill - Date published: 8:01 pm, November 23rd, 2017 - 155 comments
Frigate. Send one. Now.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:14 am, November 22nd, 2017 - 82 comments
Gerry Brownlee has surfaced on Radio New Zealand to criticise Labour’s handling of the Manus Island refugee issue. But he seems to have forgotten that the proposal offered by Labour is the proposal originally offered by National.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:36 am, November 18th, 2017 - 298 comments
The Australian Government has this week been attempting to undermine Jacinda Ardern’s humanitarian request that the refugees on Nauru Island should be treated humanely.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:35 am, November 6th, 2017 - 139 comments
Australia has refused New Zealand’s very generous offer to take 150 Manus Island refugees.
Written By: Matthew Whitehead - Date published: 6:20 am, November 2nd, 2017 - 229 comments
Jacinda Ardern faces a test of her claim she can handle Australia better than the last two Prime Ministers. How will she react?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:31 am, June 29th, 2017 - 27 comments
The Government is seeking to sell 2,500 Christchurch Housing Corporation homes. The shortlist of potential purchasers includes an Australian company recently successfully sued for human rights breaches of refugees on Manus Island.
Written By: Bill - Date published: 12:04 pm, September 9th, 2015 - 12 comments
As the photo claims, refugees are human beings. We can tell this from general expressions of resignation, desperation and misery.
But what about our own expressions of humanity?
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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