The best protective barrier is awareness. This is what International False Awareness Day provides: Awareness. And a sense of hope. Lies and mistakes in the application of justice harm men, women, and children who deserve to grow up in a just society.
Charles Bannerman only played three tests for Australia, but it’s he who still holds the record. Charles Bannerman passed away in 1930, at the age of 79.
We will not settle the arguments of our age until we are honest about the question beneath them: What is a human being? And what is a human being for?
Opposition communications spokesperson Sarah Henderson calls it a “serious threat to free speech”, while coalition leader Angus Taylor says he is “deeply skeptical” and that he fears it is going to be an attempt to “censor social media”.
The really bad ideas never go away. They simply reappear in new clothing – each time promising justice while delivering the same familiar results.
A press that is trusted less than the government cannot hold the government to account. It can only lecture. People who have already decided you are not straight with them do not take your word on the prime minister.
Councillors chose to hold the plant at arm’s length. They then behaved as though that put the politics of it out of their reach too, which was never true.
MP accommodation, ACC’s investments, Māori tax, child poverty, public servants, overhangs, and the small matter of several billion dollars for the Paris Agreement...
