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Friday, November 29, 2019

New Fisk

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The remembrance poppy is becoming a weapon against immigrants to Canada. We need to remember everyone’s contribution to the war I talked to...

Climate Change: Europe declares an emergency

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The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to declare a climate emergency : The European parliament has declared a global “climate an...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Leaving us with the bill

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Two weeks ago, Malaysian-owned oil company Tamarind declared it was insolvent and went into administration after a failed offshore drilling...

Climate Change: The task before us

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Two weeks ago, the Zero Carbon Act became law. Right this moment, the Climate Change Commisison will be working on its initial budgets for 2...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Giving the finger to Beijing

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Hong Kong has been protesting for six months for, demanding democracy, human rights, and an end to police violence. Today, they went to the ...

National supports slavery

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Meanwhile, while the government is planning to restore voting rights to prisoners, National is promising to turn our prisons into US-style s...

Erasing the infamy

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Last year, the Supreme Court confirmed that National's prisoner voting ban - a law so shoddily passed that it brought Parliament into d...
Friday, November 22, 2019

New Fisk

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I witnessed my first real battles and saw my first corpses in Belfast. It prepared me for the Middle East Mike Pompeo scorns the law becaus...

Climate Change: Submit!

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The Environment Committee has called for submissions on the Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Reform) Amendment Bill . Submissions...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

If Shane Jones isn't corrupt, he is trying very hard to look it

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Last week we learned that New Zealand First had apparently tried to enrich itself from public office , with a dodgy forestry company linked ...

Climate Change: We need to end fossil fuels

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Finally, governments seem slowly to be beginning to act on climate change. But its not enough. While they're publicly signing up to targ...

As bad as we expected

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Stuff has begun interviewing NZ First's secret donors , and it turns out that its as bad as we expected. They start with racing industr...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Winston is the PM's problem

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In Question Time today the Prime Minister was naturally facing questions about Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and his dubious party fi...

Australia's secret prisoner

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A prisoner stripped of their name, imprisoned for a secret crime after a secret trial, with all details legally suppressed for secret reason...

Bridges should put his money where his mouth is

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Stuff has more details on what New Zealand First's slush-fund has been funding , with much of the spending directly benefiting the part...

The APEC police state enabling bill

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I've joked before about how hosting international summits effectively turns part of your country into a police state for the duration. W...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Still denying responsibility

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Stuff 's story on NZDF's negligence around its Afghan firing ranges has produced a result, with a commitment from the Prime Ministe...

A corrupt practice

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Last week RNZ broke the news on NZ First's mysterious "foundation" and its dodgy-looking loans . The arrangement seemed to be ...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Corruption as usual

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Next year is an election year, and Labour needs money to fund its campaign. So naturally, they're selling access : Labour is charging w...

Fairer rentals

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Yesterday the government announced its changes to tenancy laws , including an end to no-cause evictions, limits on rent increases, and anony...
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