The protesters who successfully shattered the security of the secretive Waihopai spy base are to be congratulated on their not guilty verdicts.

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It appears that the days of open entry to university and tertiary study in New Zealand are numbered.

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Telecom's woes just keep piling up and ordinary customers continue to pay the price.

This week the XT network had another meltdown. And then the 111 emergency call system malfunctioned in Auckland. On top of all this, the company's share price plummeted due to all this bad news.

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About six months ago, I blogged on this site about the release of the Government's National Standards testing plans for primary school children.

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Hands up - who's sick of Telecom? Well, as one of thousands of frustrated XT Mobile customers, I am.

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Over the last few weeks of my stay here in Australia, I have been able to assess the political temperature on the ground here. This year will see a federal (national) election and several state elections.

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Politically, the year 2009 was (to paraphrase an old Bill Clinton campaign adage) all about the economy, stupid!

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Don Brash's 2025 Taskforce Report is purely retro New Right. I can't see how we are going to catch up to Australia in per capita income terms with the policy mix that Brash and his taskforce allies are suggesting.

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This week in 1989 was one of the most historic in recent times. In Berlin, a city divided after the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, the wall came tumbling down. And that made it both a good and a bad time to be a socialist.

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