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Today’s comment was written by Whathever. Thank you Whathever for taking the time to craft such an interesting comment.
So it is against human rights for 16 year old’s not to vote, but not against human rights to force an experimental medicine on to people so says the courts?
Perhaps the Wellington-centred media, who have been promulgating the idea that New Zealand is stuck in a slough of despond, need to get out more. The world’s always going to look miserable from a dyspeptic capital that is itself mired in the doldrums.
As anyone who has used public transport knows, it’s a bit of a horror show. Hence it’s refreshing to see a journalist, a senior writer for the New Zealand Herald, no less, in agreement. Did you hear? Auckland has invented train travel. Last month, the new City Rail
The victory has secured her place at the 75th Miss Universe competition in Puerto Rico in November, 43 years after Lorraine Downes won the international title in 1983.
Sánchez has been in power for almost a decade – plenty of time, one might have thought, to improve a railway network fast approaching its 40th birthday.
Instead of fixing real problems, she left behind failed local projects like KiwiBuild and a country completely divided by race and unforgiving, officious, lockdowns.
Labour has paid the price for failing to replace Chris Hipkins. National’s failure is even more extraordinary.
