The Day In Parliament August 16

Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 5:38 pm
Article: ParliamentToday.co.nz

The Day In Parliament August 16

Tom Frewen: Tributes to Sir Paul Reeves. Government pressed on it's policies to alleviate on poverty. Trevor Mallard ejected from chamber for calling John Key a chicken. House due to move into urgency.

Press Link To Download MP3….

PLAY HERE

**
ParliamentToday.co.nz is a breaking news source for New Zealand parliamentary business featuring broadcast daily news reports.

Advertisement - scroll to continue reading

Are you licensed for Scoop?

Scoop is free for personal use, but you’ll need a licence for work use. This is part of our Ethical Paywall and how we fund Scoop without a regular paywall. Join today with plans starting from just $11 per month, and start using Scoop like a Pro.

Join Pro Individual Find out more

Find more from ParliamentToday.co.nz on InfoPages.

Top Scoops Headlines

COMMENT

Gordon Campbell: On ACT’s Plans To Strip Away The Rights Of Gig Economy Workers

The ways the ACT Party are aiming to redraw the lines between being an employee and being a contractor will set back the clock, and reduce the ability of workers to organise collectively.

Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Hipkins' Risky Overseas Trip

If there is a move afoot within the Caucus for change, Hipkins’ absence will give any challengers the opportunity to quietly canvass Caucus support and then to assess the mood of the Party overall.

Binoy Kampmark: Peter Doherty - Public Science Communicator

Having made his name in a field, Doherty has every right to be dull. Instead, he is self-deprecating and mocking. In a sense, he assumes a role more popularly associated with the celluloid astrophysicist, the species of character that has colonised television and screen with their searching, almost scolding gazes (Neil deGrasse Tyson), or drawn out walks upon the earth’s surface (Brian Cox).

Binoy Kampmark: Beyond Irritation - Bali’s Tourism Scourge

In its modern form, Bali’s tourism industry has become a plague of monumental proportion. A group calling itself Responsible Travel is not shy in calling the Indonesian island “one of the world’s most high-profile victims of mass tourism.”

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Sunday Morning In California As The Season Changes

Behind the impossibility of finding freedom in man’s theological contortions is a refusal to face the human condition as it is, and do the spadework of finding out for oneself what is true and what is false.

Ramzy Baroud: Abbas ‘Postponed’ Democracy - So, Who Speaks On Behalf Of The Palestinian People?

Only those who truly reflect the wider collective Palestinian experience and aspiration deserved to be centered, listened to or engaged with. Doing so would help protect the Palestinian cause of the self-seeking few, who use the Palestinian struggle as an opportunity for personal or factional gains.

Join Scoop Pro

Submit News

Become a Member