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Naomi Levin aijac.org.au Australia’s foreign aid to the Palestinian Territories has been cut by 25% over the past year, with funding redirected and long-running programs brought to an end. The cuts – from $44.1 million in 2019/20 to $29.8 million in 2020/21 – are
Over the past decade, gay marriage moved from a fringe issue that not even most gays took seriously to supposedly being the great Civil Rights crusade of our times. More recently, transgenderism went from a marginal fetish for men in dresses to being the biggest fad for teenage girls since
rt.com Walt Disney Co. has reportedly joined corporate America’s rush toward critical race theory, teaching staff that America is rooted in “systemic racism” and that white employees must show special deference to their black colleagues. Disney training materials obtained by journalist Christopher Rufo include a program called “Reimagine
Roger Partridge nzinitiative.org.nz The Government’s proposal announced Friday, May 7th to impose compulsory industry-wide collective bargaining on employees and employers without their agreement or even their participation will harm everyone but unions,” said Roger Partridge, chair of The New Zealand Initiative. Partridge said The New Zealand
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Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Is Labour supposed to be the party of labour or of capital? It’s often hard to tell these
9th May 2021 I scratched around for a suitable responsible heading for today’s second update but in the end, I can’t think of a better one than the one I have used. By closing down the internet and mobile phone services the military put great pressure on a
The government last week made two announcements that sent two completely different messages about workers’ rights. Their first announcement was a pay freeze across the public service. It was an announcement that most would expect to come from a conservative government. The only sign that it wasn’t from a
9th May 2021 First of all, my apologies for missing a couple of days of updates. Two of my sources have had section 505 orders issued against them and have gone into hiding. I just wanted to make sure they were ok and not push too hard for further information
The Labour Party and Jacinda Ardern in particular have developed a rather poor habit of announcing big things and delivering either nothing at all, or nothing that can in any way be described as even remotely approaching success. And so, after much fanfare, a promise of 3,000 jobs, and
Good morning, delegates. It’s an absolute privilege to be speaking to you all here today as your leader. I’d like to acknowledge National Party President Peter Goodfellow, my fellow board members, my lower North Island colleagues and all of you, the members of the National Party. It is
Public sector pay freeze Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: The Public sector worker backlash against Labour Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why Jacinda Ardern needs to make a John Key-style u-turn on pay sector freeze Alexia Russell (RNZ): Pay freezing out your traditional voter base Liam Dann (Herald): Muldoon
The media aren’t sticking up for Trevor Mallard at all: Barry Soper: He was told time and time again he’d ruined this man’s life, destroying his career and making him fight a case Mallard knew from the beginning he himself could never win. The only concession he
Hobson’s Pledge Trust Sixty-nine per cent oppose a plan for two governments under a tribal compliance committee while 20 per cent said news of the plan would change the way they voted, according to a poll that finished on Friday Researchers Pure Profile did an internet survey of
Coffey said he believed Rotorua had the capacity to welcome tourists “while showing that same manaakitanga to families and children in need of a warm, secure dry home during a global pandemic”. “If Australians choose not to come here, it will be because of incorrect information that some of our
