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Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “Democratic government can accommodate Maori political aspiration in many ways. It can allocate resources in ways which reflect the particular interests of Maori people. It can delegate authority, and allow the exercise of degrees of Maori autonomy. What it cannot do is acknowledge the existence
Public sector pay freeze Stuff: Editorial – Pay freeze stretches public sector loyalty Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Pay freeze shows Government can’t manage the books Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Pay freeze controversy enters second day, with Greens and National pressing Labour Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Do people really earn more
Labour watered down Act deputy leader Brooke van Velden‘s resolution about Uighur genocide in a futile exercise of CCP bootlicking. The much-weakened statement, however, has still managed to enrage the CCP: China has lashed out after New Zealand’s Parliament declared “severe human rights abuses” are occurring there
It’s disappointing the Government has chosen to block an inquiry into the increasing violence being experienced in our prisons, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. Mr Brown says that since Kelvin Davis became Minister of Corrections there has been a 92 per cent increase in prisoner assaults on
David Seymour ACT Leader A slush fund of taxpayers’ money announced less than two weeks before the election has created just five per cent of the jobs promised and New Zealanders are owed an explanation. Information revealed by the ACT Party shows that 158 full time jobs have been created
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she retains confidence in the Speaker, but has expressed “serious concerns” to him about his conduct. What a complete joke! The PM says that her concerns about Speaker Trevor Mallard are “serious”, yet she hasn’t taken them seriously at all. Her only action on
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John Blaxland Australian National University John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies, and was recently appointed Official Historian of the Australian Signals Directorate and commissioned to write a two-volume history of ASD. Talk of war has become louder in recent days, but the “drumbeat” has been
In a key scene in Orson Welles’s classic Citizen Kane, an outraged trustee confronts Kane at a party celebrating his purchase of a newspaper. The newspaper is a bad investment, he warns: it lost a million dollars in just the last year. Far from being chastened, Kane replies: “You’
If there’s been one constant in the Wuhan plague, it’s been the utter incompetence of so many governments and bureaucracies. The almost-unbroken rule is that the more authoritarian they’ve been, the more completely, disastrously, useless they’ve been. Every time, “COVID dictators” have pursued policies that
Louise Humpage University of Auckland Louise Humpage is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Auckland. After receiving a doctorate in Sociology from Massey University in 2003, she held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, Melbourne for 2.5 years. She
rt.com Former US President Donald Trump is back online – sort of. Months after being banned by most social media giants, he is now using a “desk” run through his campaign website to post content resembling his trademark tweets. “From the desk of Donald J. Trump,” revealed Tuesday, is a
The Government is putting regional roading projects and important safety improvements across the country at risk by raiding the National Land Transport Fund to invest more in rail, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. “Kiwis across the country have been paying more at the pump in fuel taxes they
The idea that the best person to catch a thief is a thief has been explored in countless stories and films, from The Stainless Steel Rat to To Catch a Thief. It even has real-life counterparts: hackers have been recruited to participate in anti-hacking initiatives. Still, those are
John Rofe Experienced Private Fraud Investigator 2 August 2020 Dear Superintendant, Following many years of investigation and supported by both empirical scientific evidence and having diligently and independently pursued the empirical observations to back up my allegations, I wish to register three complaints of fraud. They are as follows: FORMAL
