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Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will square off tonight in their one-on-one TV debate before Sunday's crucial second round vote in the French Presidential election. A strong performance from Le Pen could still see her close the polling gap, with plenty of undecided voters and soft support for her ...

The UK Labour Party has sacked one of its' general election candidates over alleged anti-Islamic tweets. Trevor Merralls, general secretary of black cab taxi drivers co-operative, denies that the twitter account in question, @wellingblueboy was his. Reports suggest, however, that there is clear ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission is pushing for sexist quotas for all government contractors. Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins, is proposing that all contractors to the government would have to employ at least 40% women. I suppose pointing out that this would be sex ...

In 2014/5 some western politicians started calling for Russia to be disconnected from the SWIFT system for inter-bank transfers. Russia responded by putting in place plans to set up their own version of SWIFT.

Due to popular demand, here is another edition of Mid-Week Politics from the staff at Right Minds. We will endeavour to make this a regular series.

In an Official Information Act request obtained by Right Minds NZ, dated March last year, it has been revealed that the Auckland DHB spend over $95,000 on workshops for staff to promote their "new values" in 2014.

The Whanganui River has been granted legal personhood, following the third reading of the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill.

A new student group was formed recently, the Auckland University European Students Association (AUESA). When they publicised a stall at "O Week" (the first week of university), they received a response they did not anticipate.

Police Commissioner Mike Bush has called for specific "hate crime" legislation to be considered for introduction into New Zealand.

How often have you thought to yourself "It's only a matter of time before we have an Islamic terror attack in New Zealand"? Well you're late to the party, because 9 years ago today a Somalian Refugee to New Zealand said thanks for our generosity by hijacking an airplane, slashing the pilot and co ...