Tag: Edge of reason
The Edge of Reason: Kicking the Tyres
A few weeks back, I attended the Karori Normal School Gala, at which I bought a copy of the most recent VUP post-election book Kicking the Tyres: The New Zealand General Election and Electoral Referendum of 2011 edited by Jon Johansson and Stephen Levine.
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The Edge of Reason: NZ’s Prison Rate, we’re number 6!
Al Jazeera recently aired a documentary on Maori in prisons as part of 101 East, its weekly Asian affair programme. It included the oft-repeated claim that New Zealand has “the second highest imprisonment rate in the western world”,
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The Edge of Reason: Exit through the Gift Shop
Radio New Zealand has a story online about John Banks being committed for trial on a charge of filing a false election return.
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