Hope you had a great Waitangi Day holiday...

Maori protest during Waitangi Day, national day of New Zealand. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Busby's residence, Waitangi, South West (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Waitangi House, Waitangi, Bay of Islands, Far North, Northland, North Island, New Zealand (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Traditional maori Waitangi Day celebrations at Waitangi, Paihia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A letter from the next prime minister of New Zealand, David Shearer MP.

http://nz.mg261.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.partner=tnz&.rand=eigi135bcpith

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Titiwhai Harawira told to shut her mouth over Waitangi welcoming dispute...

?? and Hone Harawira create some merry mayhem down the corridors of power. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Titiwhai's son, Hone Harawira, 2006 portrait photo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Maori protest during Waitangi Day, national day of New Zealand. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Waitangi House, Waitangi, Bay of Islands, Far North, Northland, North Island, New Zealand (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

http://www.3news.co.nz/Titewhai-told-shut-your-mouth-over-welcoming-dispute/tabid/1607/articleID/285662/Default.aspx

Read John Ansell's post on the word 'Aotearoa'...

http://treatygate.wordpress.com/

Something smelly - Whaleoil's alleged dirty tricks?

WikiWhale Fail (Photo credit: William Joyce)

Frankly Speaking? Read what Frank thinks of Whaleoil's blog. Something smelly. Whaleoil's alleged dirty tricks. He's gone all porno, says Frank.

.Read what Frank thinks about Whaleoil's R

http://fmacskasy.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/whaleoil-goes-porno/

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Renationalise any shares in privatised Kiwi energy companies...

English: Australian Greens logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

Renationalise any shares in privatised Kiwi energy companies...

Labour and the Greens oppose privatisation of our energy companies: They must warn any potential buyers that the incoming left of centre government will renationalise these companies at the original cost price. No interest, no inflation - just what they paid for the shares. Then see if if there are still any potential buyers. They would be crazy to by shares.

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• NZ Politics Daily - 21 June 2012

Protect prisoners rights in so-called working prisons...

English: Concertina razor wire at a prison (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

More prisoners will have to work under the government's corrections policy and the Greens say their rights must be protected.

Prisoners' rights must be protected under the government's policy to make more of them work while they're serving their sentences, the Greens say.

Prime Minister John Key on Tuesday told parliament part of the government's 2013 corrections agenda was turning more prisons into working prisons.

All the inmates in those prisons would be "engaged in a structured 40-hour week of employment and rehabilitation activities", he said.

The Green's corrections spokesman, David Clendon, says their rights must be protected.
"We must make sure that work is not treated as a compulsory or punitive measure," he said.

"Prisoners must be paid for the work they do, and this money could be saved for their release to help with their reintegration into wider society."

Mr Clendon says private businesses shouldn't be undermined by the scheme.

"Goods and services produced for sale outside of prisons by prisoners should be costed at market rates so as not to unfairly disadvantage businesses with overheads that prisoners do not have."

We have to make sure that the prisons are not the beneficiaries of prison work - just how do we do that in private prisons?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10862336

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