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Christchurch, laments
Christ! Shake September shocking major lives, unscathed by timing favour February jolts disaster struck amassed in grief suburbs amuck June strikes again more damage done hearts in despair beneath...
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Russel Norman: tax all to save some Christchurch assets
Russel Norman is critical of suggestions that Christchurch sell some of it’s assets to help fund earthquake recovery. Greens against sales for Christchurch “It’s really reprehensible that central...
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Chris Hipkins versus Hekia Parata
Chris Hipkins may not come across as a hard hitting political heavyweight, but he showed yesterday that probing, persistent questions can be far more effective at exposing inadequacies in parliament...
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Garner Drive – send young to Christchurch
Duncan Garner thinks young people should be sent to Christchurch. @Garner_Live 50,000 unemployed young Kiwis not in work, training or education. Send them to Chch to help rebuild the city. Why not?...
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Lianne Dalziel – MP or mayoral candidate?
Now that Lianne Dalziel has officially announced she will stand for the Christichurch maoyralty she is in an interesting position. She is still an MP until she resigns and ceases to be that role. 3...
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Dalziel resigning regardless of mayoralty bid
Liane Dalziel has indicated that she will resign from Parliament before she knows the result of her Christchurch mayoralty bid. She is timing her resignation from Parliament to keep as much time...
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Office sex
The office sex story is getting a huge amount of attention. It was a very silly thing to do. A brightly lit room and dark outside can give an illusion of privacy, or perhaps they were just very...
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Shame on office sex perv purveyors
The silliest of sexual encounters ws overshadowed by the sleaziest of reactions – photographing it and spreading it around the Internet. And the media joined in by promoting the story to a huge...
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Office sex, ‘smart’ phones and users with a few apps short
After the ogling and smirking has abated over the office sex exposure in Christchurch last weekend NZ Herald claims that the main issue ‘is one of decency with digital technology’. I agree. But it’s...
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TPP and a lack of democracy
There were a number of TPP protests around the country today. Some protesters need to learn what democracy means. In Christchurch their stunt was to have a burial for democracy. ‘Democracy buried’ at...
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More Christchurch earthquakes
Hopes in Christchurch that their earthquake horrors were over came crashing down to a shaky earth yesterday with another large quake rattling homes and nerves, followed by many smaller quakes. A 5.7...
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Five years on and quakes continue
There was an awful reminder for Cantabrians last week that although a very damaging quake was five years ago it wasn’t a one off event and the after effects still dominate Christchurch. There have been...
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Another ‘dirty protester’ attack
There was another incident today of something been thrown at an MP, this time some brown substance at Gerry Brownlee. At least this time media made the point that it was highly inappropriate at an...
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Butler and Trotter versus TPP
Christ Trotter has based his latest column on the word of anti-TPP activist Josie Butler – Protecting the TPP The heavily guarded Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) travelling roadshow came to...
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Risks of rising sea levels
In Question Time in Parliament yesterday Green MP Eugenie Sage asked Bill English questions about the fiscal risk of rising sea levels. Sage tabled a Ministry of Transport report obtained under the...
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Dunedin, Wellington ‘best cities to live in’
‘Best city’ surveys give a bit of an indication of what people think but there are many factors to consider, like family, work, weather, education, health and what you are familiar with. The ‘Quality...
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South Island highways update
It’s fairly obvious that State Highway 1 along the Kaikoura Coast is severely munted and will be closed for some time – this is just one of a number of slips… …and there are many fault line cracks and...
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Local bodies try political activism
The new Dunedin City Council has continued it’s predecessor in political activism, influenced by a new intake of councillors and ongoing activist pressure and lobbying. The council voted by 9 to 4 to...
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‘God deeply frustrated with Auckland’s gay people’
This is the best response I’ve seen. God is reportedly feeling “extraordinarily” frustrated that the gay people of Auckland – estimated to be the large bulk of New Zealand’s gays – are located nowhere...
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First Public Protection Order
The Christchurch High Court has issued the first Public Protection Order the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014. The respondent 25 year old Glen Anthony Douglas was deemed to be at...
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