As a reporter who spent more than a year on the ground covering Katrina’s dreadful aftermath, I witnessed the often heroic and dangerous efforts of human beings to wrest some sense of control in the midst of almighty chaos.
Poll numbers have the former VP at the bottom of the barrel.
With the hotels remaining open, we are now due for yet more protests, yet more anger, and yet more public resentment over this issue. In the long-run this makes a political resolution, in the form of a change of government, much more likely.
Either Palestinians are perpetual refugees, in which case Palestine cannot be recognised as a state, or they are citizens of a state, in which case the refugee designation must end. Both cannot be true.
Will history repeat the Kaikohe KFC collapse?
Judicial restraint is not a partisan demand. It is the condition for legitimacy. Without it, the apex court becomes less a guardian than a threat – and the ecosystem begins to fail.
In this judge’s application of the law, the very clear message the ban is meant to send has been muddied and weakened.
Putting the nation at risk to prop up a dangerous and highly destabilising law that was promoted by a party that is now openly advancing anarchy no longer makes sense.
It’s difficult not to wonder just how much harm this Millennial parenting might be doing.
We, the people, found the surveillance contracts they thought were hidden.
The world media should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
The great author/philosopher Eric Hoffer once said, “Every great cause begins as a movement, then becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
This bill is a threat to not only the vulnerable, but to every member of our community.
On one level, Barnett – the son of British Jews who migrated before the second world war and settled in Auckland – can be seen as the classic show business entrepreneur. But perhaps more important than that, he was also a patriot who believed in telling New Zealand stories to New Zealanders.
If you really must put something after your name then make it useful.
