Reflecting on ANZAC Day #1
I will be up early on Sunday, and like many New Zealanders will be at a number of different events marking ANZAC Day. It is a great day to honour servicemen and women and remember people who have...
View ArticleTo fight, or not
In our short history we have seen our fair share of battlefield carnage. Arguably it has helped make us one of the most peace-seeking of nations. The popular support for our nuclear-free policy, our...
View ArticleJK Rowling speaks from the heart at Harvard
I was so heartened by the debate engendered by my post “JK Rowling telling it like it is to the Tories” that I now share the amazing speech she gave to Harvard Students in 2008. It’s about 20 minutes...
View ArticlePerhaps China needs to chill?
Predictably, there are different responses emerging to the Russel Scuffle outside parliament on Friday. John Key says it’s “disappointing”. Murray McCully on Q & A this morning blamed Russel...
View ArticleWikileaks: the balance between security and civil liberty
Wikileaks is an extraordinary event. It started off as a not for profit media organisation and a website which published leaked information and has now become an evolving situation which throws into...
View ArticleFlossie le Mar could change lives…..
Don’t often do plugs on Red Alert but this is an issue we still haven’t got our heads around. Self defence for women and especially for girls is an important part of a process that is much more than...
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Chopper Key – it wasn’t the flight it was the cover-up
My view is that Key is not going to be caught by the use of the helicopter but by the hamfisted attempt on his part and that of Bill English to cover it up. They knew it looked awful as they were...
View ArticleApparently blokes need more security
TVNZ reported this evening that John Key’s jaunts to his holiday home in Hawaii are costing the taxpayer even more than we thought, with the Diplomatic Protection Service picking up an extra $30,000...
View ArticleSavings Policy-Details
For those looking for the details around today’s announcements on savings, here is the link. Also here is a link to Phil Goff’s interview on Close Up tonight, worth a watch too. Some important elements...
View ArticleThe chilling effect of TICs
Update: The second reading of TICs is tomorrow. It seems likely the Govt will try to rush through the committee stages and third reading this week.If so, this is an extraordinary abuse of process,...
View ArticleNZ and the disarmament agenda – where are we?
The nuclear disarmament agenda has been gathering pace internationally in 2013 but our government has been ignoring, or just missing, every opportunity to do anything to advance it. We had a great...
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