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You Leave Your Free Speech at the Boss’s Door
Winston Peter’s heckler voided his free speech rights the moment he put the company lanyard around his neck.
A Steadily Deranged World Makes Lushy a Malcontent
Dispatches from the edge of a temporarily unbalanced Aussie mind.
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Damned if We Do... Or Don’t111
Some men have learned. They have done the work of unlearning the old rules: man up, harden up, don’t be soft. But some men are still learning. Not because they don’t feel deeply, but because they were taught to lock it down, praised for being tough and rewarded for being silent.
This Could Be a Trap
The law makes it clear: parliament could abolish the Māori seats tomorrow with a simple majority – no referendum needed, no special entrenchment – yet a politically convenient referendum is being offered instead.