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By Martin Doyle21 Sept 2012
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After the upheaval of recent years and given the mess the currently dysfunctional Council is in, Wellington needs a Mayor who will stand above petty party politics and give the city unifying, consensual leadership. Little is not yet demonstrating he can do this.
Looking for consistency in all things is said to be the hallmark of a small mind. Duly noted, but the Luxon government’s stance on climate change does seem strikingly inconsistent. For starters, New Zealand claims to still be committed to the emissions targets contained in the Paris Accords, but the current government’s plan for doing so largely relies on scientific methods for reducing emissions
The real question, the burning question each of us must answer is – given there is no middle ground, there is no fence to sit on when it comes to genocide – whose side are you on? And what are you going to do about it? Vive la Resistance. Vive the defenders of the Palestinian cause.
Why haven’t we changed in 45,000 years, and emerged from our self-made darkness? Why are we still projecting darkness the other, and making war, when, as the film concludes, “they aren’t things; they are just like us?”
When the politician pushing a controversial piece of legislation starts accusing his critics of “derangement syndrome” – as David Seymour has done this week – then any chance of a rational debate on the Regulatory Standards Bill has gone
Ian Powell discusses who benefits from the Government’s decision to outsource (privatise) cherry-picked planned surgery in New Zealand’s health system.
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