In some paper somewhere in the last week (sorry, can’t recall where) I read a letter to the editor that started off with the usual letters page rant attacking MMP because it allows MPs who have been booted out of an electorate back in on the Party List. But it ended unusually by advocating STV, […]
Unlike the flying kiddies debate I blogged on earlier, one thing Children’s Commissioner Cindy Kiro does agree with the relevant Green MP on is the repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act.
Sue B’s Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Bill is due before the Justice and Electoral Select Committee […]
The furore today over Air NZ and Qantas’ practice of not allowing men to sit next to unaccompanied children brings the Right’s definition of ‘political correctness’ into question.
National’s PC Eradicator Wayne Mapp has said that the move is “political correctness that had got out of hand” (BTW, should we assume that when PC hasn’t ‘got […]