Rueben Taipari Porter Well I have been watching and listening to all the issues in front of us. The TPPA, the Ture whenua Maori Act review, Water allocation, Reo Maori Bill, Housing price increases, Dairy pricedrops, Flag reviews,Oil company presence, GE trees da di dah and it all gets a bit overwhelming. But most of […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder After Students at Waiuku College suggested a month of Maori language week the intolerance in New Zealand society has reared its ugly head. In the comments below J Subz comment wants a democratic vote on Maori language. Before the arrival of English speaking British colonists the Maori language was democratically the only […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder Has Mike Hosking interviewed John Key with such contempt and intolerance? continually mangling the pronunciation of Hone’s name as “Hoenay Hara-where-are”.
Mana News editor Joe Trinder The Prime minister initial response when Maori language month was suggested by a young girl at at an assembly of Waiuku college he laughed as though it was worthless. Trent Brown Marsh a student at Waiuku College explained at that very moment the Pakeha kids began to laugh with the Prime-minister […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder The TPPA (Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement) will be the largest trade deal in history – involving countries stretching from Chile to Japan, representing 792 million people and accounting for 40 percent of the world economy –but the deal is being done in secret. Lobbyists from America’s biggest corporations and Wall […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder Professor Jane Kelsey got an opportunity to explain to government policy proponent Mike Hosking about the TPPA.
Mana News editor Joe Trinder Q&A TVNZ Sunday 19th July Michelle Boag the former National party president talks about diversifying investment in the stock market and how first home buyers have expectations of wanting a three room villa in Grey Lynn. Boag explained how the National government are not to blame for housing supply and demand issue […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder I had to roll on the ground in laughter when I read this comment from Don Brash. I don’t care if the controversy has damaged support for the Labour Party of course, but I do deeply care about the damage done to race relations in this city and to our […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder The New Zealand Debt Clock reached $100 billion NZ dollars of government debt last week . That calculates to to $25,000 debt for every Man, Woman and Child in New Zealand. Equal to 50 per cent of New Zealand’s economic output. When National took control of the Beehive in 2008, debt was […]
Mana News editor Joe Trinder Some parts of society you just can’t privatise Schools, Prisons and State housing. Serco is a defence and aerospace contractors based in the UK. Serco operates public and private transport and traffic control, aviation, military weapons, detention centres, prisons and schools. In 2007 government tried outsourcing prisoner transport to Chubb another UK […]
