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Scorn has been poured on ACT MP David Garrett’s suggestion that bad parents should be offered a $5000 incentive to get sterilised.
The list MP expressed the personal view on a blogsite after reports yesterday into family violence deaths and into measures to tackle abusive parents.
“If – say – $5000 was paid to the...
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ACT MP wants to offer sterilisation incentive
Abusive mums may be tracked through life
A panel of experts has recommended an alert system for all abusive mothers so officials know when they have more children.
The Experts Forum on Child Abuse report, due to be released today, said it was concerned that in some serious cases officials...
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Wage gap with Australia set to widen
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A new survey indicates the wage gap between this country and Australia appears set to widen, with accounting firm Grant Thornton warning the figures could indicate the start of another brain drain from New Zealand.
Its survey of 250 Australian and 180 New...
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The Disposable Citizen! Nationals Benefit Bashers!
So, today, John Key addressed a Grey Power meeting and said that those on superannuation would be compensated “immediately” … this, to me, implies that those on other benefits...
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Gordon Brown: “No injustice should last forever”
We applaud the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, for saying sorry to the child “migrants” shipped out to Canada, Australia and New Zealand from the 1920’s to the...
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Hone Given Indian Name…
On a recent trip to the U.S.A. Hone Harawira was invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nations in Kitimat, B.C. due...
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Baby died after agencies ‘failed to see signs’
(From The Manawatu Standard)
Signals that baby Cohen Parker wasn’t in an ideal foster home weren’t picked up in the weeks before his death in Palmerston North last March.
His...
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Frustration behind ACT’s review of Hide’s leadership
By MARTIN KAY – The Dominion Post
ACT leader Rodney Hide says frustration at National’s refusal to undertake sweeping economic reforms was a factor in questions being raised...
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Welcome to 2010, John Key!
John Key and his henchmen have held the first cabinet meeting of the year, and they say there isn’t much money for new initiatives BUT, maybe tax cuts.
There...
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A bloggers code of ethics.
"It's not what you write, or how you write; it's not even the content," he says. "It's about getting
attention." Cameron Slater to the Sunday Star Times.
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Cameron Slater Is INSANE!
So sue me, Cameron. I read you twaddle on Whaleoil, and I’ll take a leaf out of your book, and say that I do not believe you. You have...
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Some people never learn
One aspect critical to the evolution of a species is its ability to learn. Today’s NZ Dompost reveals the lack of intellegence of one such member of the human...
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