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John Minto: The booze barons are at it again
Monday, 10 May 2010, 8:23 pm | John Minto
Last Thursday morning I was driving through Otahuhu in South Auckland and came across a huge billboard for a new RTD (ready-to-drink) of bourbon and cola with the message “Would you prefer to walk in on your parents or have them walk in on you?” More >>
ECan sacking a coup for corporate irrigators
Monday, 3 May 2010, 1:29 pm | John Minto
It’s good to see the fight-back in Canterbury against the sacking of the Environment Canterbury Board. Firing the board was an orchestrated coup conducted by the government on behalf of corporate irrigators. From their overseas offices big agribusiness investors ... More >>
Predator priests in the Catholic Church
Friday, 23 April 2010, 12:06 pm | John Minto
The Catholic Church has a 2000-year history of surviving scandals and it will survive the latest appalling revelations of its cover-up of cases of paedophilia amongst priests. This scandal has been around for several years but has gained new notoriety ... More >>
John Minto: Whanau ora
Friday, 16 April 2010, 12:06 pm | John Minto
The Maori Party has been a huge disappointment and Whanau ora will likely be its biggest failure. The party was formed amid well justified anger and frustration at the Labour government’s panicky move to legislate across Maori rights to have claims ... More >>
John Minto: An apology from the NZRU is in order
Monday, 12 April 2010, 9:55 am | John Minto
Jock Hobbs - where are you? An apology is in order for the families of Maori rugby players excluded from All Black tours to South Africa for nearly 50 years in deference to that country’s racially prejudiced policies. More >>
John Minto: Funerals are for the living
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 6:52 pm | John Minto
Funerals have come a long way since I was a boy. I was often called out of school to perform the role of altar boy at funeral services for local Catholic parishioners in South Dunedin and they were all similar mundane affairs. More >>
Controversial Artist Launches MintoPhone
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 9:12 am | John Minto
Press Release: Controversial Artist Launches MintoPhone Date: 01/04/2010 For immediate release Artist Emil McAvoy is responding to veteran human rights protestor John Minto's recent arrest and the police confiscation of his loudhailer by launching the MintoPhone. ... More >>
Domebusters provide better security than the SAS
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 9:46 am | John Minto
It’s disappointing that despite the events of last week most New Zealanders wouldn’t know of Katharine Gun. I’m not aware of her name appearing anywhere in mainstream newspapers or radio and yet she gave crucial evidence in the Wellington District ... More >>
John Minto: Supercity contracts out democracy
Friday, 19 March 2010, 9:34 am | John Minto
The dangers in the ACT/National coalition agreement are becoming clearer by the day. The agreement goes well past maximising ACT’s 3.5% electoral support. As part of the arrangement ACT Leader Rodney Hide got himself one of the most influential cabinet ... More >>
Death sentence for more New Zealand kids
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 11:35 am | John Minto
Act MP David Garrett’s suggestion the government pay bad parents to be sterilized will resonate with a lot of people. Like all of us Garrett says he’s concerned at the numbers of children abused and killed each year in New Zealand and suggests ... More >>
Telecom - bastard offspring of the market
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 9:26 am | John Minto
I’m not just talking about events of the past month but the tale of the company and the country since Telecom was privatised in 1990. Telecom is struggling for the same reason our national economy is struggling. Market values have replaced the values ... More >>
John Minto: Govt Fails National Honesty Standards
Monday, 15 February 2010, 9:59 am | John Minto
We all expect politicians to bend the truth as they spin their policies to the public but Prime Minister John Key and Education Minister Anne Tolley went a step further last week when they defended the policy of national standards. They told some porkies. More >>
Open Letter from John Minto to Willie Apiata
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 12:04 pm | John Minto
It’s a long way from Te Kaha to Kabul but our newspapers have been full of big photos of you last week emerging from a house in the Afghani capital where three “insurgents” lay dead after a firefight. PM John Key didn’t like the pictures. ... More >>
Tennis Protests Not A Popularity Contest
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 11:19 am | John Minto
If last week's protests directed at Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer were a popularity contest she would have won hands down against the protestors. More >>
Minto: Hone Harawira - Speaking Truth To Power
Friday, 20 November 2009, 9:19 am | John Minto
John Minto writes: None of this should need to be said but the reaction of so many to Harawira's angry email resembles the deeply embedded racism which Don Brash tapped into so successfully a few years back at Orewa. More >>
Infratil puts the boot into low-paid bus drivers
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 10:59 am | John Minto
Last Friday I joined a protest by Auckland bus drivers locked out by their employer, the Infratil-owned NZ Bus company. It was a lively, spirited protest by some 400 drivers and supporters. Many are from the Pacific and an entertaining feast of singing ... More >>
John Minto: Devastation in Samoa and South Africa
Thursday, 8 October 2009, 11:40 am | John Minto
There’s only been one story on New Zealand’s mind this week with devastation in Samoa and Tonga dominating the news with the heart-rending stories of families ripped apart by the tsunami which killed so many and destroyed so much. More >>
John Minto: Sue Bradford a big loss
Friday, 2 October 2009, 1:13 pm | John Minto
Sue Bradford will be a big loss from parliament. Her decision to resign after 10 years as a Green MP removes the strongest voice for the most vulnerable groups in New Zealand. It’s not a case of another MP stepping up to fill her shoes. There ... More >>
John Minto: Déjà vu with Labour
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 11:09 am | John Minto
We’ve seen it all before. In the aftermath of an election defeat Labour apologises to the country for getting its priorities wrong. New leader Phil Goff says it should have put people, families and communities at the centre of its policies but allowed ... More >>
John Minto: Social deniers dominate debate on kids
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 11:50 am | John Minto
It says a lot about how distorted our view of children has become that another report highly critical of how we treat our kids disappeared from the media in just 24 hours last week. The report, Doing Better for Children, was the first time the Organisation ... More >>
