Month: November 2005

The controversy over Qantas’ ban on banning men from sitting next to unaccompanied children on flights has highlighted some very important human rights issues. Firstly,…

Excerpts from a press release on today’s “Scoop” by Unite organisor and Socialist Workers Organisation member, Joe Carolan. “Unite’s Supersizemypay.com campaign to unionise young workers…

In 1997 the Green Party left the Alliance. Though not a Green Party member, Keith Locke went with them. he quickly became the Greens Foreign…

Wayne Mapp, National’s PC eradicator has been getting stuck into Canterbury University for reqiring library staff to attend “Treaty Awareness” courses run by Bob Consedine….

Between 27th November and 2nd December, Hamilton will host over 3000 indigenous educators, researchers and students for the 7th World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education….

Political Correctness lunacy from yestrday’s Newstalk ZB “Teachers are being ticked off for dishing out lines to teach students a lesson. The Education Review Office…

“If National was intelligent, it would recognise that by fostering the growth of smaller parties to the right and left of it, it could conceivably…

Rodney Hide’s former right hand man, Brian Nicolle wrote a very interesting piece in Saturday’s Dominion Post.”Contrary to popular opinion, a Holyoakean Helen Clark is…

One person to welcome UN “rapporteur” Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s UN report is Race Relations Commissioner, Joris De Bres.De Bres says he is “hoping that when the…

Congratulations to Christchurch City councillor, Gail Sheriff for standing up for her constituents. Ms Sheriff was invited to a meeting of Britannia St residents concerned…

Mexican Marxist and United Nations “rapporteur” Rodolfo Stavenhagen has been rebuked by National’s Maori Affair spokesman, Gerry Brownlee. Commenting on Red Rodolfo’s critical statement on…

Here’s Matt McCarten writing in the Australian paper, Green Left Weekly, in November 1992. He was marking the death of his friend, Democratic Socialist Party…

In 1990 Keith Locke stood as NLP candidate for Mt Eden. He was openly backed by “Left Currents”, the new name for a revamped Workers…

From this morning’s Christchurch PressSelau Ifopo-Sumner and Mandy Karatau-Keightley live in Brittania Street, Christchuch. Upon hearing a rumour that twice convicted child sex offender, Colin…

My wife asked one of our our local creche workers yesterday if it was OK to send our little feller in with some 2 minute…