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No Right Turn: No Place For Maori Under National
Monday, 29 August 2005, 5:24 pm | No Right Turn
Don Brash has rehashed his Orewa speech in laying out National's treaty policy, and in doing so made it crystal clear that there is no place for Maori under a National government. Instead, he wants to disband Te Puni Kokiri and Te Mangai Paho , expunge ... More >>
No Right Turn: Behaviour Miss-Management Regime
Monday, 29 August 2005, 3:37 pm | No Right Turn
Last year, the High Court entered a landmark judgement against the Department of Corrections, ruling that the department's Behaviour Management Regime (BMR) was unlawful and inhumane, and awarding compensation to five current and former inmates for their ... More >>
No Right Turn: Iran - No Military Solution
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 10:29 am | No Right Turn
Last week, in a scene strikingly reminiscent of the lead-up to America's current foreign policy disaster in Iraq, we saw President Bush blustering against Iran, threatenin g to use force unless that country ended its nuclear program. More >>
No Right Turn: Failed policies
Monday, 25 July 2005, 3:29 pm | No Right Turn
National looks set to try and revive the failed policies of the 1990's with a vengeance, with Judith Collins announcing that a National government would reintroduce work-for-the-dole . More >>
No Right Turn: Reducing Emissions
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 11:59 am | No Right Turn
The Press had a story this morning about our skyrocketing greenhouse emissions , based on the National Inventory Report . Overall emissions have grown 22% since 1990, with significant growth in both the transport and energy sectors. And while much ... More >>
No Right Turn: G8 - Disappointing
Monday, 11 July 2005, 9:07 am | No Right Turn
The G8 has produced its final communique , promising to boost aid to Africa by US$50 billion and forgive some third world debt. But while this will make a real difference, overall it is disappointing. According to Make Poverty History , only 40% of that ... More >>
No Right Turn: F**k Iraq, Part IV
Monday, 4 July 2005, 12:51 am | No Right Turn
Why did America invade Iraq? With the WMD pretext thoroughly discredited, Bush and Blair have increasingly relied on humanitarian reasons. Saddam's government had to be overthrown to end oppression, torture, and human rights abuses in Iraq. The problem? ... More >>
No Right Turn: Don Brash &The Politics Of Division
Monday, 27 June 2005, 6:10 pm | No Right Turn
So it's settled then. Having initially sold himself as "socially liberal but fiscally conservative", someone who would run a balanced budget while supporting liberal social legislation, Don Brash has decided to run an election campaign based on the politics ... More >>
Asset forfeiture: sacrificing justice
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 5:59 pm | No Right Turn
The bill allows the crown to seize assets from suspected criminals on a civil ("balance of probabilities") standard of proof. But the crown does not have to link the assets to any specific criminal activity; all it has to prove is that the target has engaged ... More >>
No Right Turn: Zaoui Judgement - It's Enough
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 2:01 pm | No Right Turn
Initial reaction to the Supreme Court's judgement in the Zaoui case has been pessimistic. I'm not so sure. While the Court has delivered a mixed judgement, upholding in part and overturning in part the prior judgement of the Court of Appeal , I think that ... More >>
No Right Turn: Some Guidance Re. Specific Abuses
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 4:49 pm | No Right Turn
I'm writing to you in your functions as Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs repsectively, about the upcoming visit of President Pervez Musharaf of Pakistan. More >>
No Right Turn: Asylum for Chen Yonglin
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 12:28 am | No Right Turn
Eleven days ago, Chinese diplomat Chen Yonglin walked out of the Chinese consulate in Sydney and requested political asylum. He is currently in hiding somewhere in Australia, but in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald [Reg Req], he said ... More >>
No Right Turn: The Return Of Dawn Raids
Thursday, 5 May 2005, 1:31 pm | No Right Turn
The New Zealand Immigration Service has started a major blitz on Arab visitors and residents, even those who have been granted permanent residency or refugee status, investigating their backgrounds, and aiming to cancel the permits and deport anyone ... More >>
No Right Turn: The Winston Veto
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 12:56 am | No Right Turn
As much as I love to see the Department of Immigration squirm in the glare the public spotlight, I can't help but be more than a little uncomfortable at Winston Peters' latest scandalmongering over visitors from Iraq. Firstly, there's the racism angle; ... More >>
No Right Turn Launches Candidate Survey
Friday, 15 April 2005, 10:20 am | No Right Turn
No Right Turn, one of New Zealand's largest left-wing blogs, has launched its 2005 election candidate survey. More >>
No Right Turn: Gearing Up For Privatisation
Thursday, 14 April 2005, 12:16 am | No Right Turn
So, National has a "new" education policy , and what is it? A return to the same tired old policies that were tried - and failed - in the 80's. Bulk funding, so the government can wipe its hands of the last shreds of its responsibility to ... More >>
Who Is Responsible For The Cost Of BMR?
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 10:11 am | No Right Turn
Who's responsible for the illegal and inhumane imprisonment scheme which has so far cost us over a million dollars... More >>
NRT: An Archaic Law Which Must Be Repealed
Monday, 31 January 2005, 11:42 am | No Right Turn
The charging of Tim Selwyn with publishing a seditious statement over the pamphlets distributed as part of the axe attack on the Prime Minister's electorate office last year marks a new low for freedom in this country. More >>
No Right Turn: Disengagement
Monday, 31 January 2005, 11:40 am | No Right Turn
There's a pair of articles in Foreign Affairs this month which advocate US withdrawal from Iraq. The first, "Iraq: Winning the Unwinnable War" by James Dobbins, is direct and to the point: More >>
No Right Turn: F**k Iraq, Part III
Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 2:03 pm | No Right Turn
Remember our hopes for Iraq? That by getting rid of Saddam, Bush's crusade would lead to a democratic ''beacon of freedom'' which would inspire change throughout the Middle East? More >>
