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The Cabinet Manual merely notes that “A change of Prime Minister may occur because
the incumbent Prime Minister resigns, or as a result of the retirement, incapacity,
or death of the incumbent Prime Minister”. However, it contains no provisions, ...
Given the crackdown on wasteful government spending, it behooves me to point to a
high profile example of spending by the Luxon government that looks like a big, fat
waste of time and money. I’m talking about the deployment of NZDF personnel to ...
These values place commerce and money as well as US strategic military interests
over the wellbeing, and the very existence, of ordinary, and especially foreign,
people.
New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it
doesn’t need: gambling we can keep the strength and security of our trading relationship
with China whilst leaping into the US anti-China military alliance.
Antonio Gramsci was not a professional philosopher. His intellect was refreshingly
situated within an inherent bias towards the common people, the 'subaltern' classes,
particularly the working class.