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The art of negotiating till you vomit
Being awkward pays off - even after they've cracked open the champagne.
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Cranmer Unmasked
It was always going to happen ...
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New Zealand's Thin Blue Line
The Parliament Protests and the Posie Parker Rally have exposed the extent to which the Police frontline is under-resourced and under-funded.
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New Zealand Politics: The Land of No Consequences
The latest mini-scandal to hit the Labour government only reinforces the need for a comprehensive overhaul of the regulations relating to conflicts…
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Court of Appeal to hear appeals on vaccine mandates in New Zealand this week
It seems that the government did not fully disclose all material facts to the Courts or to mandated workers.
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Hipkins Struggles to Contain Official Information Act Scandal
Whilst it is being portrayed as a one-off innocent mistake by two hardworking and trustworthy civil servants, in truth it reveals a glimpse of the…
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Balancing Free Speech and Protecting Religious Beliefs: The Complexities of Hate Speech Laws
The government's most recent failed attempt to enact hate speech laws shows just how difficult it is to strike the right balance between free speech and…
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Hipkins ditches hate speech laws
Despite the PM ditching the proposed hate speech law, both the Human Rights Commissioner and the Race Relations Commissioner persisted in…
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Labour reintroduces blasphemy laws
The government repealed blasphemous libel laws three years ago but now looks set to re-introduce something remarkably similar. It is an amendment that…
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