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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.
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Grant Robertson, the former finance minister, expressed regret for not borrowing more.
In this judge’s application of the law, the very clear message the ban is meant to send has been muddied and weakened.
Sometimes it feels as though we’re no longer in charge of our own country.
