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Last Wednesday, a video went viral of a white woman defending her actions after calling a 5-year-old black boy the N-word because, allegedly, the kid had tried to steal from her son’s diaper bag. Ther ...
Treasury has changed its tune at the last minute and given a handful of organisations the green light to attend next week’s Budget lock-up. The move follows a legal threat and public pressure over why ...
Quite a few interesting things said by David Parker in his valedictory speech: Dame Anne Salmond describes the Treaty as an exchange of gifts—tuku—between the Queen for her subjects and a rangatira on ...
May 2018 - article on Ron Mark calling a female MP a petal Sep 2018 - column by Andrea Vance saying people need to play the ball, not the woman, decrying sexist terms against female MPs Jan 2019 - ...
In what may be the most valuable gift ever extended to the United States from a foreign government, the Trump administration is preparing to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal ...
While bringing up my three wonderful children we had: no TV. no playstation. limited screen time to 30 minutes a day (which was hardly ever used). no cell-phones (I did not even have one until Feb ...
Increase welfare payments by 26% to young unemployed persons to $395 a week Pay $395 a week to students A wealth tax A death tax A tax rate of 39% on income over $120,000 (which with GST will mean you ...
The Police Commissioner says he takes "very seriously" anything that undermines the public's trust and confidence in police. It comes after RNZ revealed pornography found on the work computer of ...
In the days since a senior Stuff journalist published an article calling female Ministers the c word, I've been counting how many staunchly feminist Labour and Green MPs have come out and said somethi ...
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MPs suspended
The Privileges Committee has recommended the following consequences for the MPs who disrupted the House, being Rawiri Waititi 21 days suspension Debbie Ngarewa-Packer 21 days suspension Hana-Rawhiti ...
It is a very rare occurrence for an MP to use the c word in the House, but when female Ministers have had the c word used against them in a column by a Stuff journalist, it is very appropriate.
Treasury has banned from the Budget lockup numerous organisations that have been attending for many years. These include the Taxpayers' Union, the CTU, Business NZ and the NZ Initiative. This is the ...