Articles by Rachel Smalley
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: Stats don't back National's beneficiary crackdown
Thursday, 7 September 2017, 7:25amNational’s new beneficiary policy – if job seekers without children refuse work experience or training, or turn down the...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: NZ is becoming increasingly more violent
Friday, 19 May 2017, 7:01amYou’re at work and you’re doing whatever it is that you do. You could be in an office, or in the dairy sheds. You might be...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: What it means to be a 'lone nut'
Thursday, 13 April 2017, 7:11amSometimes in life you come across people who I refer to as 'lone nuts'. A lone nut is someone who puts their head above the...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: Madness to flog off NZ's water
Thursday, 16 March 2017, 7:25amIn Christchurch, a former wool scouring plant in Belfast is about to be sold off, and with it will go a lucrative water consent...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: How can we stop rape culture?
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 6:24amDid you see the images from the protest in Wellington? The hundreds who marched on Parliament calling for an end to our rape...
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Rachel Smalley: New visitation scheme for children needs to go a step further
Monday, 13 March 2017, 6:29amIt can be a pretty fraught situation at the best of times - when the parents of a child or children have separated but they...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: The word 'feminism' is polarising
Thursday, 9 March 2017, 7:32amFeminism. That word. That label. That title. The term that so many politicians grapple with. I watched a report on Newshub...
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Rachel Smalley: Corporates the leaders in fight against Trump
Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 6:59amIn this ever-changing political world, increasingly I think it’s corporates who are poised to become our greatest influencers. Take...
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Rachel Smalley: Farcical health system not meeting demand
Friday, 3 February 2017, 7:19amNow, how’s your health? Have you, or someone you know, tried to get an appointment with an orthopaedic surgeon lately? Well,...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: Bill and Paula can't ride Key's coat-tails
Monday, 12 December 2016, 6:26amThere we have it. The new Prime Ministerial team: It’s Bill and Paula. There’s a bit of a ring to it, isn’t there? Sort of...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: The impossible Pike River decision
Thursday, 24 November 2016, 7:35amIt's been six years since the Pike River mining disaster, six years since 29 men lost their lives, their bodies never recovered....
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Rachel Smalley: Govt must heed scientists on Geonet monitoring
Monday, 21 November 2016, 9:28amGeonet says it needs a service that's monitored 24/7. Dr Ken Gledhill, who works for GNS Science said better technology and...
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Rachel Smalley: Dreamworld horror show 'crisis management at its worst'
Friday, 28 October 2016, 7:39amThe owners of Dreamworld were planning to open their Gold Coast theme park in memorial to the four people who died there...
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Rachel Smalley: Regardless of your position on euthanasia, it's illegal
Thursday, 27 October 2016, 6:23amThe situation with the pro-euthanasia meeting that was targeted by police. The police say they did set up a drink-drive checkpoint...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: Aaron Smith frenzy shows NZ's petty side
Tuesday, 18 October 2016, 6:21amI thought the Aaron Smith story was done. I thought we'd heard the last of his so-called 'toilet tryst' in Christchurch....
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: Ardern's child poverty bill deserves to be drawn
Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 6:35amPeter Dunne wants a Child Poverty Act. It would set out how we measure child poverty, how we reduce it, and it would hold...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: London's Sadiq Khan shows way on foreign house buyers
Friday, 30 September 2016, 7:27amHere's a situation, what would you do? You're a mayor, and house prices are spiralling out of control and everyone has a...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: Political will weak in face of tertiary education woes
Thursday, 29 September 2016, 8:00amHow about this then? Ministers Steven Joyce and Bill English commissioned the Productivity Commission to look at tertiary...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: Broadcaster boosting Real Housewives slur for ratings
Tuesday, 20 September 2016, 6:58amTonight, on the Real Housewives of Auckland, they will broadcast one woman calling another a "boat 'n-word". I can't write...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: Drug dealing Housing NZ tenant raises questions
Monday, 12 September 2016, 6:44amThis is an issue that some of you might find challenging. A woman is being evicted from her Housing New Zealand home because...
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Rachel Smalley: Economics 101 doesn't apply to overheated housing market
Tuesday, 6 September 2016, 6:31amOvernight, I read a really interesting piece in the Sydney Morning Herald -- it was to do with housing. Sydney, of course...
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Rachel Smalley: A remarkable story of survival
Friday, 26 August 2016, 8:03amI don’t know about you, but over the last 24 hours I have not been able to get this tragic story about what happened on the...
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Opinion
Rachel Smalley: West immune to suffering of Syrians
Thursday, 25 August 2016, 7:26amThis morning the Turkish military has crossed into Syria. The images are coming in of tanks crossing the border, and the...
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Rachel Smalley: Better funding needed for female Olympians
Tuesday, 23 August 2016, 8:20amJust before I crawled into bed last night, I read an opinion piece that looked at our success at the Olympics. It was on...
