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By Sue Bull New Zealand health authorities have neatly turned the euthanasia debate on its head in a particularly brutal and racist case of health system rationing. They have been prepared to impose what the government's deputy leader, Tau Henare,
Fantastic "At $60,000, his work represents fantastic value for money for NSW taxpayers." — A NSW Treasury spokesperson on the payment to Bob Hogg for conducting an inquiry that recommended electricity privatisation, a proposal overwhelmigly
Stop the racist Wik bill! By Jennifer Thompson On October 22, two Liberal MPs broke ranks to abstain from the second-reading vote in the House of Representatives on the government's racist Wik bill. Another Liberal MP went to a Christian "Praise
Foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer has repeated his position that there will be no further inquiry into the killing of six journalists in East Timor in 1975. "We can't keep having inquiry after inquiry after inquiry into this incident, which
The quality of mercy By Brandon Astor Jones Moments ago, as Superior Court Judge Ken Nix — in his own good ol' boy way — sang the words, "... and may God have mercy upon your soul", it probably never occurred to his toe-the-line