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This Is Why They Shouldn’t Be in Women’s Spaces
If you want people to think you’re normal and harmless, demented death threats are not the way to go.
The Legacy Media Never Learn: Good
Kicking a disabled candidate is low by even their standards.
Government reins in new co-governance while Tainui settlement rights remain
Parliament’s “supreme law-making power” supersedes “any Treaty of Waitangi settlement”.
AT parking cars ‘videoing everything they see’ on streets and private property
“What I received was video footage of pretty much everything going on in Parnell.”
Social housing subsidy hits $2.07b as fastest-growing providers become harder to scrutinise
“The fastest-growing part of public housing is the part we can see least of.”
Airbnb owners face new consent hurdle despite earlier council advice
The unit was deemed “transient, rotational and commercial in character”.
Election workers told to learn Te Tiriti as Electoral Commission neutrality questioned
“Embed a Māori worldview throughout the Commission.”
If TPM games MMP, it could spell the end of the Māori seats
Summarised by Centrist Te Pāti Māori is campaigning for electorate votes rather than party votes, a strategy that could create an overhang Parliament...
Carbon forestry making supermarket beef prices more expensive
“Driving a wave of land use change to carbon forestry.”
Unread report warned lives were at risk; seven months later, six people were dead
“Received, filed, discussed, forwarded – and then left.”
Another One That’s Forever Five Years Away
Quantum computing is facing its own replication crisis.
Quick Hit: Hipkins Sold Seven. Jackson Just Sold Two.
The campaign manager will not sell the leader’s line.
The Country Said Yes. The Majors Said Sit Down.
A country that lets non-citizens vote in a general election is not being kind – it is being sloppy. Most countries do not do it.
