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Irredeemably Liberal
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Reported back
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The Local Government and Environment Committee has reported back [PDF] on the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental ...
Back to the polls in Greece
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Its official: Greek coalition talks have failed, and the country will be going back to the polls . On current polling, SYRIZA will likely e...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Submit!
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The Transport and Industrial Relations has called for submissions on the Immigration Amendment Bill . You can submit online at that link, ...
Welfare Working Group appointed to run WINZ
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The Welfare Working Group was one of the more blatant displays of ideology in recent political history, with a pack of hand-picked cronies (...
So much for "closing the gap"
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Currently, there's a marked differential in wage rises between unionised and non-unionised workers . Unionised workers get decent wage ...
Climate change: The Overton window
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Via Paul Krugman , a scary image of the current debate on climate change: This disconnection of reporting from scientific reality matters...
A bitter pill
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The Budget will be delivered next week, and the government is well into the usual pre-announcements, dribbling out Budget programmes to dist...
Monday, May 14, 2012
Deceitful
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Last year, at the height of the "teapot tapes" saga, John Key was eager to claim that the police searches of media organisations a...
A victory for human rights
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The Court of Appeal has ruled in the case of Ministry of Health v Atkinson [PDF], and upheld the Human Rights Review Tribunal's ruling ...
Key on marriage equality
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So, John Key's position on same-sex marriage has evolved from "I'm not personally opposed to it" to "I'll suppor...
New Fisk
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Must we stand idly by while world leaders spout this codswallop?
Labour doesn't lead
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Tomorrow is the International Day of Families , which this year is focused on the issue of work-life balance. So naturally we have a press-...
Friday, May 11, 2012
Winning hearts and minds again
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Since the beginning of the "war on terror", the US government has been at pains to draw a distinction between al-Qaeda, a terroris...
Hoist by his own petard
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Since being elected to Horizons Regional Council in 2010, former Federated Farmers Tararua President John Barrow has been a critic of the co...
The AFFCO Workers’ Appeal
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The CTU have launched an appeal for AFFCO workers , who have been locked out for over two months in an attempt to deunionise their workplace...
I agree with Colin Craig
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Colin Craig on same-sex marriage : “Government needs to get out of the bedrooms of the country”. I agree with this absolutely. The stat...
Time to make some noise for marriage equality
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John Key's response to being questioned about his position on same-sex marriage? He's "not personally opposed" to it and...
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Something to go to in Wellington
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Wellington’s Queer Avengers have organised another "Queer the Night" march for tomorrow evening : When: 19:00, Friday 11 May Wh...
Shameful
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Last night, Campbell Live had one of the most shameful stories I have seen about New Zealand recently: a 4-year old boy kicked out of his lo...
Shearer rises to the challenge
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Obama's declaration of support for same-sex marriage made it inevitable that people would start asking the same question of our local p...
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