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Written By: r0b - Date published: 1:01 pm, December 19th, 2009 - 17 comments
Back at the start of the month Marty G pointed out that Brash’s useless 2025 Taskforce looked like nothing so much as a pension scheme for retired Tory old boys. Marty wrote:
No more jobs for Nats’ old mates
So far, we’ve paid $400,000 to employ some rightwing old boys for a crap report that the …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 3:50 pm, August 15th, 2009 - 26 comments
Call me old fashioned if you will, but I like the idea that reforms of government activity should be concieved and implemented by experts in the particular field in question. Which makes me wonder, why the hell has Tony Ryall appointed a financial guy, Murray Horn, to lead a ministerial review into the health system? …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:00 am, August 13th, 2009 - 37 comments
Remember the petition to state your opposition to Paula Bennett’s attack on our privacy rights. The idea is it will be tabled in Parliament next week. It’s a chance to take a symbolic stand against this bullying Key Government. You can download the pdf here or by clicking on the image and mail it freepost by …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:32 am, August 7th, 2009 - 21 comments
As you know, when Natasha Fuller and Jennifer Johnston spoke up against the Key government’s cancelling of the Training Incentive Allowance, Paula Bennett tried to silence them by releasing their private information to the media.
That was a flagrant breach of her fiduciary duties as minister and the Privacy Act, and a threat to free speech.
Nonetheless, …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 9:16 am, July 31st, 2009 - 52 comments
Thundering from the pulpit is a fine old editorial tradition, and The Herald has often held forth on the rule of law. Starting with the basics:
The law must be upheld…
The law matters, as The Herald feels perfectly comfortable pointing out to those it feels need the advice:
If the law is enforced impartially and professionally, people …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 5:50 am, July 30th, 2009 - 19 comments
That’s what Bennett is calling the Right’s attacks on the women she released confidential information about.
As if she didn’t know that would happen. As if she didn’t know that releasing this information on what seems like large amounts of money when you don’t have the facts would send every knuckle-dragging redneck, reactionary in the country …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 6:53 am, July 29th, 2009 - 33 comments
‘Beware’ that was Mary Wilson’s conclusion to her interview with Paula Bennett yesterday. The audio is here: Beware of Bully Bennett
- Beware that if you voice any opposition to a government policy and the minister decides it has been going on too long or it’s too damaging, they will release confidental information on you.
- Beware that …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 3:16 pm, July 1st, 2009 - 105 comments
The Foreshore and Seabed review panel have reported back with the recommendation that the law be scrapped and people be allowed to attempt to prove ownership rights over the foreshore and seabed in court as they can with any other land.
Good.
Ever since the Government issued a proclamation in 1872 to stop the Native Land Court …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 5:33 pm, May 26th, 2009 - 86 comments
Collins has given us a little teaser of what’s in her car-crushing law. As any fool could have predicted the fascist in her couldn’t stop just at crushing the cars of repeat traffic offenders who don’t pay their fines.
A new penalty for illegal street racing would allow vehicles to be seized and destroyed.
Vehicles used by …
Written By: the sprout - Date published: 1:14 pm, May 6th, 2009 - 2 comments
Hide and Banks do not strike me as the kind of men you feel safe about having too much power. They never have been and they never will be. Yet so far the ongoing review of the so called ‘Supercity Plan’ has suggested it’s only weakness is that the Lord Mayor wouldn’t have enough power.
Instead, he should …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 10:13 am, April 21st, 2009 - 7 comments
“You know what is in room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in room 101″
The release last week of four memos from the legal team of the George W Bush administration confirmed what many already knew. That they were using torture. Anyone who has read those memos cannot deny that and be taken seriously. The …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 4:25 pm, April 18th, 2009 - 16 comments
Unlike some of the other Standard writers, I don’t usually find Fran O-Sullivan too bad but her reporting of Key’s trip to China has been disappointing. Here’s how she describes Key’s failure to stand up for human rights:
“Key is also quite pragmatic on human rights. He did not seem bothered enough on China’s record to …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 7:38 pm, February 18th, 2009 - 43 comments
The Attorney-General, National’s Chris Finalyson, has declared that the ‘3 strikes and you’re out’ Bill that National/ACT (and Finlayson himself) are about to vote for violates human rights.
From Finlayson’s report:
What does that mean?
Finlayson is saying that giving a life sentence to a person who is on their third strike for an offence that would see another …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 3:55 pm, January 14th, 2009 - 11 comments
It’s good to see Kiwipolitico taking a critical view of the Left from the Left – it’s certainly better than any critiques we see from the Right. And, naturally, within the Left we disagree at times, which is all good and healthy. In that spirit, I thought I would respond to two posts on Kiwipolitico …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 12:30 pm, August 28th, 2008 - 31 comments
MSD released its Social Report today, an annual publication that collates a wide variety of standard of living measures, and produces this awesome graph. The circle represents the status quo in 1995-97 each spoke represents a different measure (income, crimes per capita etc). If the spoke is longer than the circle than the measure has improved between 1995-97 …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 9:18 am, August 13th, 2008 - 12 comments
In December 2006, the United Nations adopted a major new human rights treaty, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance aimed at preventing and punishing ‘enforced disappearance’ – the kidnap and murder of political opponents by governments.
73 countries have signed the convention, 4 have ratified it. 20 ratifications are needed …
Written By: Tane - Date published: 6:28 pm, July 30th, 2008 - 9 comments
Amnesty International does some great campaigning and human rights work around the globe and this week is Freedom Week, their annual fundraising and awareness drive.
Most people will be familiar with Amnesty’s work, especially with the spotlight they’ve helped to shine on China’s appalling human rights record in the leadup to the Olympics. What’s often forgotten …
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