Summarised by Centrist
Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman’s second attempt to avoid conviction for her $9000 shoplifting spree has failed. High Court Justice Geoffrey Venning ruled the conviction was not disproportionate, despite Ghahraman citing mental health issues. Crown lawyer Alysha McClintock argued the shoplifting was premeditated, stating, “This was a spree, not a ‘moment of madness.’” Ghahraman was fined $1600 in June.
Negotiations “can’t be as long as forever.”
MPs spoke emotionally of her passion, conviction and advocacy for Māori youth and South Auckland.
“We must invest in prevention and address the root causes of the drug trade.”
“There is a religious contingency within the Pacific that does support Israel… it does not necessarily mean it’s the majority view…”
“It’s fairer to address these costs directly with the customers who cause the damage.”
“Subsidising fuel might feel good today, but it undermines the long-term resilience of our economy.”
Negotiations “can’t be as long as forever.”
MPs spoke emotionally of her passion, conviction and advocacy for Māori youth and South Auckland.
“We must invest in prevention and address the root causes of the drug trade.”
“There is a religious contingency within the Pacific that does support Israel… it does not necessarily mean it’s the majority view…”
“It’s fairer to address these costs directly with the customers who cause the damage.”
“Subsidising fuel might feel good today, but it undermines the long-term resilience of our economy.”
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The type of managerialism and politicisation afflicting New Zealand universities is present in other countries to a greater or lesser degree.
If you want to attack anyone for what you and a few of your fellow ideological travellers see as doctrinal error, you really shouldn’t make your target the grieving parents of a child who died alone of starvation in a motel room.
New Zealand doesn’t take its universities seriously, despite them being major export earners and productivity engines.
RNZ dismissed 1930s heat data by claiming sites can’t be compared, even though NIWA now routinely does, undermining their own record-breaking headline.
The Crown is being audited for failing to meet an undefined ideological benchmark created by the previous government.
An NZ Herald article on bowel cancer screening appears to have been discreetly sanitised post-publication.
