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  More rushed legislation under urgency

  
  
  
  Yesterday, the government decided that once again, it was important to run rough shod over parliamentary scrutiny by passing a motion for urgency and introducing new Bills and asking for debate before anyone had even seen the legislation. The Clerk of the House advises that urgency be accorded the introduction and first reading of [...] read more
  February 11, 2009 1:06 pm - 48 Comments
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  Is the Murupara killing the tip of the iceberg?

  
  
  
  Given the main stream media’s love of over-reporting violent crime in New Zealand, I find it strange that yesterday’s killing of a 16 year old boy in Murupara barely made the papers today. There is a complex confluence of issues at work here so I am asking questions rather than offering firm opinions. TV3’s Sunrise programme [...] read more
  January 29, 2009 12:48 pm - 47 Comments
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  Michael Law’s jackboot nanny state (fashion police gone mad)

  
  
  
  Picture a world where the state tells you what you can and cannot wear in public. Where the state tells you who you can and cannot associate with. Where the civil liberties you get are based on the lottery of your demographics. This is the world that the self-proclaimed nemesis of the nanny state, Michael [...] read more
  August 3, 2008 10:56 am - 81 Comments
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  Bankers, like gangs, just get carried away

  
  
  
  It was such a delicious editorial to stumble upon that I had to share it. John Kay’s Financial Times article from February 13th. Now that you’ve read it, I have to ask: Could you vote for investment banker John Key and his gang in the next election? It’s not that the Greens would be exempt from [...] read more
  February 19, 2008 4:30 pm - 25 Comments