Select Committee Report Nov 10 2010

Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 6:37 pm
Article: ParliamentToday.co.nz

Select Committee Report Nov 10 2010

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Binoy Kampmark: The Australian Defence Formula, Spend! Spend! Spend!

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Ian Powell discusses how New Zealand’s vertically centralised health system led to a new hospital surgical building without staff and its similarity with the ‘Yes Minister’ comedy and the hospital with no patients.

Mike Treen: Prices Are Still Rising - It's A Cost Of Living Crisis

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Gordon Campbell: On When Racism Comes Disguised As Anti-racism

The meaning of the word “racism” is being deliberately blurred, for political reasons. Lets re-state the obvious: when people are chronically experiencing worse social outcomes and lower life expectancy due to the colour of their skin, that’s racism. But the targeting of measures to redress those wrongs is not racism – it is justice, long overdue.

Peter Dunne: Newshub And TVNZ Tip Of Media Iceberg

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Harry Finch: Austerity – For And Against

It’s a word that politicians love to hate and as much as the current government is telling us that the measures they are taking don’t amount to austerity, by definition, they do. And as other commentators have noted, New Zealand has elected a government of austerity, so let’s weigh up the pros and cons.

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Select Committee Report Nov 10 2010