Новости за 07.05.2016

Tags: General Debate

Newshub reports: Andrew Little says it’ll only be “greedy landlords” who hike rents on the back of his proposed Bill to insulate and warm homes. This reflects the mentality of someone who has never run a business. Like many unionists Andrew seems to think that it doesn’t matter if costs go up, as owners can […]

OPINION: By Rev Benny Giay
 
LAST MONDAY, Indonesian police arrested more than 1600 people in Jayapura, Papua. They were rallying in support of a coalition of groups representing West Papuans’ aspirations for independence.

JAYAPURA (Tabloid Jubi/Pacific Media Watch): Journalists were banned from covering the arrest of protesters supporting the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) and who were the detained in the Mobile Brigade Command headquarters in Kotaraja, Jayapura, this week.

Rosette Adel
MANILA (Asia Pacific Report/The Philippine Star/Pacific Media Watch): An environmentalist who received “death and rape” threats from supporters of presidential candidate Davao City mayor Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte has filed an election offence case at the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

Stuff reports: Tackling health and education issues facing vulnerable Kiwi kids is the best way to keep them out of the country’s prisons, Justice Minister Amy Adams says. A new approach to New Zealand’s justice system could also lead to judges making sentencing decisions based on data analysis of the most effective approach. Adams launched the […]

The Herald reports: Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft has been appointed the country’s next Children’s Commissioner with a brief to monitor massive changes to Child, Youth and Family. That is a great achievement to get the Principal Youth Court Judge to agree to become the Children’s Commissioner. Social Development Minister Anne Tolley said Judge […]

Max Rashbrooke writes: New data from the IRD shows that the share of taxable income going to the richest New Zealanders has not changed under National. However, that share is still very large, indicating significant income imbalances. The IRD data shows that the richest tenth of taxpayers got one-third of all taxable income in both […]

PORT MORESBY (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Student protesters at the national university in Papua New Guinea demonstrating against the government, claiming it is eroding democracy, have targeted news media by burning 800 copies of the two daily newspapers.

A rare good Dom Post editorial: The use of drugs by favourite childhood characters is likely to encourage impressionable young people  to see drug use as funny and cool, the office finds. That is surely right. So now the firm will face serious trouble if it allows these vans to hit the road again.  It’s […]