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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Lindsay Mitchell: Child sponsorship in NZ

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Variety has started up a scheme for New Zealanders to sponsor a New Zealand child. The money involved is the same as international spo...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Mike Butler: Buying votes at Ratana

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In late January every year, political party leaders join the pilgrimage to festivities at Ratana Pa at Turakina to try to buy votes, and ...
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Mike Butler: Green sub-prime housing

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The latest Green Party policy-for-votes initiative, a rent-to-buy housing scheme, appears to have been created by someone unable to work ...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Ron Smith:Little hope and no prospect of change

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Just after the US election last November I wrote a blog speculating about how Congress and the newly re-elected President would face the ...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Reuben Chapple: Maori Seats

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The Maori Party wants the Maori Parliamentary seats entrenched forever in law. In a manner chillingly redolent of apartheid-era South...
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Kevin Donnelly: A guide to education jargon!

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With schools about to start in a couple of weeks it’s a good time for parents to brush up on education fads and gobbledegook. Every ...
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Matt Ridley: The greening of the planet

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Satellites confirm that green vegetation is increasing . Did you know that the Earth is getting greener, quite literally? Satellites a...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Mike Butler: Waikato greed, double dipping

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A Waikato-Tainui tribal spokesman is demanding a bigger top-up payment than the government has offered and a Waikato clan has secured a f...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Ron Smith: Knowing the Truth

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An anonymous commentator on my 13 January blog concerning the UN expert committee report on the health consequences of the 2011 nuclear...
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David Round: The Hobbit - and Chris Trotter

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You are a very fine person, Mr Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!’ ...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

Kevin Donnelly: Freedom of religion and faith-based schools

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Secular critics argue that religious organisations such as faith-based schools, especially Catholic schools, should not have the right...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Karl du Fresne: Council bureaucracy frustration

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Everyone I know seems to have a story about the frustrations of dealing with council bureaucracies. Try to build a simple garage to ke...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Phil McDermott: Congestion, Density, and Transit– Have we got the mix all wrong?

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The compact city/transit answer to the urban sustainability question Expensive – and usually loss-making – public transit is enjoyin...
Monday, January 7, 2013

Ron Smith: Radiation, Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power

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The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) reported to the General Assembly in December 2012....
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Mike Butler: Picton tribe’s $11.7m queried

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Gone are the days when New Zealanders of Maori ancestry could fax in a claim noting an historical grievance allegedly suffered and wait f...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Ron Smith: On Constitutions

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The proposed constitution for Egypt contains a good deal of contentious material and it will be interesting to see how it fares in the ...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Reuben Chapple: Eyes Wide Open

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The Waitangi Tribunal’s recent finding that Northland’s Ngapuhi tribes did not cede sovereignty to the Crown by signing the Treaty of Wa...
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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Bruce Moon: Ngapuhi did cede sovereignty

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A claim that Far North tribe Ngapuhi never ceded either sovereignty or government is contradicted by the fact that a number of the 27 Ngap...
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Mike Butler: Mokomoko, murder, and money

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The saying "give someone an inch (and they'll take a mile)"used to mean that if you allow some people a small amount of fre...
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Friday, December 7, 2012

Simon Cowan: Will taxes on the super-rich solve budget woes?

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Governments around the world are being dragged, in some cases kicking and screaming, into doing something about their budget deficits. The...
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