I know I am showing my age a bit here, but I can remember the days when newspapers used to report actual news. This is in direct contrast to this morning’s Herald (it certainly is “the weak-end” Herald). We have the mercurial Hone Harawira admitting to skipping official meetings (the ones we paid for him [...]

For those in the blogosphere who are getting excited about the fact that Paula Bennett has had a complaint lodged against her with the privacy commissioner, let me remind you of a salient fact. The Privacy Commission is a toothless dog. It’s prime function is to waste endless hours compiling documents in defense of a [...]

If there was ever a good reason for canning the Race Relations Commissioner, the latest antics of Joris De Bres would be it. Going to a conference that most of the Western world is boycotting, where the leader of one of the most intolerant societies in the world is down to deliver a one-sided diatribe [...]

The Human Rights Commission is drafting guidelines on how to run religious education and ceremonies ”in light of the country’s increasing religious and cultural diversity”. What a massive bureaucratic waste of time and money. Mugabe is killing hundreds of his people every day, there are wars in the Congo and Gaza, Islamic states trample on women’s rights routinely and [...]

A new Government report again portrays the obvious, telling us that women are paid up to 35% less than men. Cue the feeding frenzy: The Human Rights Commission says the evidence of workplace gender inequality is now indisputable, and it calls on public organisations to take action. “We want people to start fixing the problem, [...]