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Raw Video: National Party leader Don Brash today announced his taxation policy.
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Now that the formalities of saying goodbye to Pope Francis are over, the process of selecting his successor can begin in earnest.
What is well worth celebrating, however, is that Vietnam successfully got the imperial powers off its back and out of its country. It is well-placed to play an increasingly prosperous and positive role in the emerging multipolar world. It is part of the WTO, and the ASEAN network, and borders China, giving Vietnam the opportunity to weather any storms coming from the continent of America.
The legacy of colonial domination and erasure of te reo Māori and culture is being stealthily reenacted in this attempt to remove the acknowledgement of “the unique place of Māori as tangata whenua” from Te Whāriki.
The freshly reconstituted New Zealand String Quartet inaugurated Wellington Chamber Music’s 2025 season at St Andrew’s On The Terrace with an intriguing programme.
Perhaps we need to treat Trump II as a pandemic/climate change scale of convulsion that offers as much of an opportunity as it does a threat.
This profaning of protest in a university setting is a convenient trick, using the popular weasel words of “offensive” and “unsafe” while deploying, more generically, the pitiful policy inventory that makes freedom of expression an impossibility.
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