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I could choose to live anywhere in the world. 14 years ago I chose to settle in NZ for the rest of my life. There was one very considered reason: the future. I take as guidance 1 law: the law of requisite variety. The larger the variety of actions available to a control system, the larger the variety of…
This was awesome! https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360487380/haka-interrupts-vote-treaty-principles-bill Dear Barry Soper, fuck off with your pearl clutching. ACT introduced the hatred into parliament – those people are responding to it. As per usual… crickets from Labour
We now live in a downwardly mobile society (not as bad as the US… but bad). You are an organization full of career politicians. They are so grossly of touch with reality that you’re not even in the same Venn diagram. You actively loathe the working class and elevate people who appear on the US…
The great German industrialists of the 1930s found Adolf Hitler crude. But they disliked democracy and taxes and regulation far more. … Those who are with Trump often reveal a harder ideological edge. Sometimes this is about the belief that Trump will be more resolute in supporting Israel. Sometimes it is openly anti-democratic. “I no…
… a massive win for property and contract law: Iwi from the top of Te Waipounamu are entitled to thousands of hectares of land and millions of dollars in compensation for a land deal struck in the 1830s which the government did not honour. In interim High Court findings released this afternoon, Justice Rebecca Edwards…
The reason for Seymour’s rating came through loud and clear in some savage commentary. “This divisive approach needs to end,” said one respondent, who believed he was “losing support from many of those who may have voted for him in his electorate”. A legal firm leader said “I worry they are not focusing on the biggest issues…
Fuck yeah! Fifteen minutes. That’s how quickly one manager of an Auckland Warehouse Extra said te Wiki o te Reo Māori merchandise, which the Warehouse created in collaboration with Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori, sold out in the weekend. But the man behind the collaboration said the sight of the merch selling out…
Your confirmation that the National Party will not support the Treaty Principles Bill beyond the select committee stage provides no comfort that the divisive and misinformed nature of the conversation will stop. Māori will bear the brunt of that misinformation now and for generations to come. The repeated reliance on the coalition agreement with the…
While there is discontent with the current political system, many New Zealanders are wary of the extreme positions Act is pushing. The rise of global indigenous rights movements, alongside a growing understanding of New Zealand’s colonial past, means the public is more aware of the nuances of te Tiriti than Act might have expected. By…
The Ministry of Justice has warned the proposed Treaty Principles Bill isn’t “grounded in the Treaty” and relies on a “novel reading” of the founding document that isn’t supported by the “available evidence”. Advice provided to Cabinet on the proposed Treaty Principles Bill recommends the coalition continue the status quo – rather than redefining the principles. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/527682/treaty-principles-bill-officials-advise-government-against-redefining-principles…
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