by Heather Hastie | Oct 17, 2017 | NZ Politics, Tweets
It’s been a couple of days, so I thought it was about time I did a tweets post. I’ve been partly writing a “proper” post, and partly taking time off. Spoiler Alert: the “proper” post is about the Iran Nuclear deal, which I support....
by Heather Hastie | Oct 8, 2017 | New Zealand, NZ Politics, Sport, Tweets
I’m happy to report that the New Zealand All Blacks won again! They played the South African Springboks in the early hours of this morning. This was the last game of “The Investec Rugby Championship” competition for both teams for this year. The All...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 29, 2017 | NZ Politics
I’m a bit late with the topic of the loss of the Maori Party from parliament but it’s one that’s important to me, so I want to get my thoughts on record. One of the biggest topics of discussion following our election on the weekend was how voters in...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 23, 2017 | NZ Politics, Tweets
I’ve been back home for three days now but I’ve been feeling ghastly and wasn’t really up to tweets. I probably could’ve done it, but that would have meant a delay in my recovery and I had to be well again by today. Why? It’s election day...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 5, 2016 | NZ Politics
I’ve spent a lot of time lauding New Zealand’s election system on this site. One or two have found that pretty annoying, and I don’t care; I stand by my comments. It’s called MMP, which stands for Mixed Member Proportional. Here’s how it...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 14, 2016 | New Zealand, NZ Politics
New Zealand’s prime minister John Key phoned his golfing buddy President Obama to offer our country’s condolences following the murders in Orlando, which were apparently warmly received. This afternoon, in their first day back since the tragedy,...
