Theresa Gattung the '90s grandee, Damed, redeemed.
TPM may well want a Maori parliament, but they might want to reflect on the number of successful postcolonial states. There aren't that many successful postcolonial states, but the big ones had very strong immigrant presences including: Canada, United ...
Not it's proportionate to the crime. Which is basically admin for a very small amount, lying, and covering it up. I mean sure it would be great if Trump just burned in hell, but with no constitutional bar to his candidacy, Home D is Guilty, Punished, ...
Hopefully it's Home Detention with an ankle bracelet. That respects a punishment that reflects the scale of the crime. That would also be realistic given he really does have a right to free speech as a candidate able to campaign virtually, and jail is ...
+100 Back in the day under Anderton we used to have innovation engines.
So now that it's fully in the open that Biden has given permission for essentially missile strikes inside Russia using US weapons, it's very hard to stop Putin striking inside Poland or Moldova. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/30/politics/biden-ukraine-...
Looking forward to the sentencing report and the sentence itself. MSNBC News - Breaking News and News Today | Latest News At least one guardrail of civic order has worked. How many of his supporters will revolt?
Can anyone tell me why Wellington Council led by a Green Party mayor is selling its remaining airport shares to Infratil? Back in the day, Winston was prepared to bring down a government over this.
I'd rather have a wealth plan than a wealth tax. ie one in which the government has a plan to massively increase the number of people earning over $100k, so they can save towards their own home. Budgets used to be about the place of the public accounts ...
Without looking it up, who is the Labour finance person? This was the day they'd been practising for their entire political life.
Pretty sad that Labour's opposition finance person didn't generate a memorable line over the whole day, and nor did the Greens. Good on TPM for helping organise marches in opposition. Beneficiaries getting so little in the tax cut is cruel to the poor.
Loan-to-income ratios is the definition of the full house of cards coming down. That's mortgage debt addiction cold turkey. It will go most of the way to killing this government.
Today's Pamphlet Award goes to Obtrectator
Back in the day the entire focus of the left was to be just as internationalist; to support the good but motly crew trying to roll back a Fascist state in Spain in the 1930s. Remember when the left had the confidence to carry a gun not just a pamphlet?
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Smith and Caugheys closing. Could someone put a fire under the Auckland mayor? Our largest city has poured over $6 billion into the CBD and downtown. It's a crime hole. Sky City+Britomart+Commercial Bay are the winners out of this.
Hilarious this columnist wants a defence force without the ability to defend itself. As per New Caledonia last week, or Fiji or PNG potentially, sometimes weapons are required to suppress societal breakdown. Be real. Few if any other countries have to ...
This matter should be in the hands of the Electoral Commission, not thrown around by each new government. National should listen to those mayors who wrote to them. We have such weak local and regional government here that undermining local government ...
Honestly they should get nothing. Not one $. I don't mind paying for election staff and machinery and vote advertising about where to vote, but for the rest of it - including those recommendations except maybe (e) - they should be funded by donors. The ...
Does anyone know of any efforts to unify the opposition against this government in particular the fast track consents bill? Seems odd that the only people to hep organise a march to Parliament about it were the Maori Party.
Alternatively we need parties that can work in common interest with business, because that's what keeps us employed. There is no way our tax dollars should be funding political parties by state taxation. Parties we oppose would benefit from money we earn.
There's a fudgy liberal line between "engagement" and "co-deciding", both of which deliberately influence government decisions. Ardern could and should have saved Curran and chose to let her swing. It was pathetic to watch. All government departments and ...
Can't wait for the Select Committee hearings.
No party is proposing to nationalise anything. What we do have is royalties, taxes, and until recently a requirement that mine companies clean up after themslves (well done Labour+Greens). The only party proposing to restore resilience to international ...
Like teachers, surgeons, police, soldiers, engineers, and nurses, it's better to train up the workers here. Until we do, we have to import pretty much everyone. The A Grade tunnellers can be attracted to stay if New Zealand companies pay reasonably and ...
Would be weird imagining life without the mined elements required for cellphones, computer hard drives, electric and hybrid vehicles, flat-screen monitors and televisions, spindle motors and voice coils on desktop computers, electronic displays, lasers, ...
Propose it as a post.
Maybe Shane Jones is partly right.
14 years is a very, very long time to be in power in a functional democracy. Hope Starmer can be even better than Blair.
Really encouraging post thankyou Nigel. Hopefully they do a show in the South Island.
To state the bleeding obvious, this scale of National donor electorate campaign funding is very, very hard for the left to beat. The left candidate who got equivalent donor funding would be too centrist to be useful in a left government. Because they would...
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