Why MMP Is Still The Best Option
MMP has flaws, but the alternatives to the current voting system are much worse
by Gordon Campbell| October 20 2011 |
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Why MMP Is Still The Best OptionMMP has flaws, but the alternatives to the current voting system are much worse by Gordon Campbell |
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Amnesty International, After 9/11AI’s director Salil Shetty, and the threats to human rights posed by Western governments… by Gordon Campbell |
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100% Pure Business OpportunitiesIs DOC’s zeal for commercial ventures with the private sector an environmental hazard ? by Josh Gale |
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Life As A Death SentenceThe understated horror of Never Let Me Go by Philip Matthews |
Left Coasting : Hunger for JusticeCalifornia’s prison inmates go on hunger strike for better conditions by Rosalea Barker |
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The Dissing of David Foster WallaceDealing in the tics of sincerity… by Gordon Campbell |
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Classics : Madeline (1939)Ludwig Bemelmans had a few childhood scars of his own by Gordon Campbell |
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Evil Genius Finds Virtue in VinylAnd lo, a new record shop is born by Gordon Campbell |
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From The Hood: Dining With The BaronAn extraordinary tale of marine vicissitude by Lyndon Hood |
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The Complicatist : The sounds of summer…and Bert Jansch, R.I.PLaneways beats the Big Day Out, hands down by Gordon Campbell |
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Ten Myths About Asset SalesSelling down the public’s stake in energy companies and Air NZ makes little sense, socially or economically by Gordon Campbell |
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Cricket and DepressionIs there something about cricket that puts its top players at greater risk of mental illness? by Gordon Campbell |
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Too Old To Vote?As the population ages, will senile voters decide the election outcome in future? by Gordon Campbell |
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Classics : Lady and the Tramp (1955) and Benji (1974)How Disney (and others) teach children that living in a nice suburban home beats living free in the city by Grace C. Russell |
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Left Coasting : Barricading the Information SuperplazaBART starts a free speech firestorm by Rosalea Barker |
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Touching the VoidIn Melancholia Lars von Trier hives off serenely into the cosmos by Philip Matthews |
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From the Hood: The Inspector ProtectorInspection is my life by Lyndon Hood |
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Milestone Movies : Cave of Forgotten Dreams ( 2010)This time, Werner Herzog’s process of turning obsession into art begins with art by Brannavan Gnanalingham |
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The Complicatist : Retromania ( yet again)We’re all busy making plans for the past by Gordon Campbell |
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Imagining WarThe ethical and stylistic issues in using real-life war zones as a basis for contemporary fiction by Mark P. Williams |
Cartoon Alley : Mat Tait & Mike BrownMat Tait is a South Island based cartoonist and illustrator. Mike Brown lives in Wellington and is currently writing a PhD thesis on New Zealand vernacular musics. by Mike Brown & Mat Tait |
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Train Wreck at KiwirailBehind the job losses at Hillside and Woburn… by Gordon Campbell |
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Losing Student MediaTracing one likely effect of voluntary student membership by Sarah Robson |
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Slutwalk and HijabAn interview Professor Leila Ahmed of Harvard Divinity School by Gordon Campbell |
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Why The Long Face ?Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse, and the controversy about slow cinema by Philip Matthews |
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Left Coasting: Robbin’ the HoodCalifornia’s latest attempt to escape from its low tax / no revenue straightjacket by Rosalea Barker |
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From the Hood: Sestina SIStina BarcelonaThe art of spying, dying and versifying by Lyndon Hood |
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The Complicatist: Love and Mining DisastersThe Complicatist : Love and Mining Disasters by Gordon Campbell |