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Does New Zealand – despite our claims to egalitarianism and everyone being equal before the law – treat the people engaged in tax evasion more […]

Well, it does seem that about $30 million is the kind of pocket money that the government has readily at hand to throw at foreign […]

The Fonterra tainted milk powder scandal is at risk of becoming the export equivalent of foot and mouth disease, and needs expert management now to […]

Pity the poor Prime Minister. The phone records of Fairfax reporter Andrea Vance? Don’t look at him. Once again, John Key has been let down […]

So, in a US kangaroo court, the sole presiding judge has found Bradley Manning guilty of espionage, theft and fraud under the US Espionage Act […]

If the thousands of people who marched on the weekend against the GCSB Bill wanted further justification for their concerns, the Defence Force has just […]

Everyone likes the new-ish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right? Why, his so called “Abe-nomics” promises to deliver Japan from two decades of economic malaise, […]

Tomorrow, the parliamentary committee that heard submissions on the GCSB Bill will report back. Few will be expecting significant changes to this egregious betrayal of […]

In a week that will see nationwide protests against the GCSB, the politics of the passage of the agency’s governing legislation remain as polarized as […]

Remember the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, and those scary stories last year about how it would give foreign multinationals the right to sue the […]

At what point did the SIS lose the technological ability to fulfil its statutory duty, which is to detect and to counter threats to our […]

Gambling, for all the social evils that it can bring in its wake, is a legal activity enjoyed by many. And during night’s debate in […]

Hope you’ve got it straight now. Treasury said $100 million from the Mighty River Power sales proceeds had been earmarked to prop up Solid Energy’s […]

Clearly we – and that includes Kim Dotcom – have been giving Prime Minister John Key too much credit. Everyone assumed that a smart guy […]

While Kim Dotcom’s appearance was the highlight of yesterday’s hearings by the Intelligence and Security Committee, his commentary on the GCSB Bill was in sync […]

Since the Arab Spring began, the rebellion in Syria has been the only one to evolve into full scale civil war, and still is the […]

Whatever wiggle room exists under Standing Orders, yesterday’s ruling by Speaker David Carter on the Peter Dunne funding scandal will have done nothing for the […]

Poor lambs. They were led astray by shockingly poor advice from their officials. All of it was an operational failure within the Education Ministry and […]

Interesting how quickly the debate on Al Nisbet’s cartoons has shifted from the actual content – and the implications if, as claimed, Nisbet has said […]

The school closures in Christchurch really are a perfect storm – the most stressed community in New Zealand is being led by the most accident […]

On the weekend at one of those gatherings of the National party faithful that seem to occur every other week – as a party the […]

Hard to imagine a more disturbing insight into the treatment of the vulnerable than the Health Ministry report on Te Roopu Taurima o Manukau. The […]

Don’t want to be unduly alarmist about this, but we seem to have an outlaw government on our hands – if by that we mean […]

The Budget lockup retains a symbolic value these days, but little more than that. This is the government’s best annual opportunity to bury its usual […]

This week has seen two examples of turkeys refusing to vote for an early Christmas – while busily denying the evident self interest involved. First, […]

Unfortunately, the buying and selling of ghost-written university essays has been part of academic culture for decades. In the mid 1980s for instance, to cite […]

Comes the time, comes the man. Aaron Gilmore has become the poster child for everything that is loathsome about politicians and the political process. However, […]

Abuse directed at anyone opposed to what you’re wanting to do. Repeated mis-representations of what you said, and did. Not to mention the flat denials […]