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Robson-On-Politics 2 August 2006
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 2:16 pm | Matt Robson
Can Prussians and refugees from non-democracies become fair dinkum Kiwis? More >>
Robson-on-Politics July 26 2006
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 2:44 pm | Matt Robson
The narrative, reported verbatim in deadpan seriousness by the mainstream media, is to promise more government funding for special needs children; more funding to raise teacher-pupil ratios, more on police, more on mental health services, more ... More >>
Robson-on-Politics 20 July 2006
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 2:38 pm | Matt Robson
Lebanon is a state of minorities: Multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religioned. Lebanon is to Israel what Federal Bosnia is to the Serbian and Croatian nationalist militants: An existential threat to racist ideology. More >>
Robson On Politics – Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 2:18 pm | Matt Robson
"Economic progress consists in the rising productivity of labour." wrote Karl Marx in his 19th Century book, Capital: [Vol. 3, p. 261, p. 820]. I'm interested in the efficiency of parties' labour-intensive canvassing and my party's performance ... More >>
Robson-On-Politics 12 July 2006
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 2:22 pm | Matt Robson
The news item on TV3 on Monday, in which MPs spill the beans on the reason why Mr Brash hasn't been rolled yet, is seriously bad news for National for two reasons. First, the MPs' comments indicate there is no consensus on the next leader and, secondly, ... More >>
Robson-on-Politics July 5 2006
Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 12:34 am | Matt Robson
Judging from his accent, the deputy leader of NZ First must have stepped off the aeroplane in the past fortnight. Mr Peter Brown put out a statement "warning" the Lab-Progressive government that any increase in immigration must not be an attempt ... More >>
Robson-on-Politics 28 June 2006
Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 12:00 am | Matt Robson
The first report on the state of the economy in 2006 found that the value of goods and services produced in Aotearoa rose 0.7% in the three months to March 31, a bitter blow to National which had so gleefully predicted recession. More >>
Robson-On-Politics 21 June 2006
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 11:43 am | Matt Robson
I got a taxpayer-funded postcard which told me that a National-led government would borrow in order to deliver $9 billion worth of income tax cuts a year. More >>
Robson-On-Politics - 10 June 2006
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 9:19 am | Matt Robson
Robson-on-Politics got a few disbelieving emails from younger readers after my comment last week that the sale of Telecom, Air NZ, PostBank etc. in 1989-1990 occurred after Roger Douglas had surrendered the finance portfolio. More >>
The States That Failed East Timor
Thursday, 8 June 2006, 2:07 pm | Matt Robson
As East Timor is wracked with crisis and the western media pour into another “failed state” my thoughts turn to the states ( and the media) that failed East Timor when Indonesia seized it in 1975 and over a period of almost a quarter of a century of ... More >>
The Sins Of Venezuelan President Chavez
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 4:44 pm | Matt Robson
The oil rich despots of Saudi Arabia , the Gulf States and Kazakhstan use the oil wealth of their people to enrich themselves and their ruling elites , set up Swiss bank accounts and in the case of the Royal Saud Family,.finance terrorism. Democratic ... More >>
NZ Should Join Call For End To Guantanamo Bay
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 12:51 am | Matt Robson
Journalist David Rose has made an invaluable contribution to the cause of universal human rights for all by this exposure of the grave human rights violations occurring on a daily basis at the United States prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. More >>
