Daily Review 14/08/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 14th, 2017 - 52 comments
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Labour’s School Leavers’ Toolkit
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Date published: 12:25 pm, August 14th, 2017 - 100 comments
“Labour’s School Leavers’ Toolkit will help students learn to drive, understand practical budgeting, be equipped with workplace skills, and learn how our political system operates through civics education at school. Every secondary school will be resourced to provide these courses.”
Chaos between supposed coalition partners
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Date published: 9:33 am, August 14th, 2017 - 10 comments
Open warfare between supposed coalition partners in the run-up to the election. Just imagine what would happen if the Greens were attacking Labour like this.
Brutal
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Date published: 7:35 am, August 14th, 2017 - 157 comments
Punitive welfare settles into a new low.
National’s weekend of blind panic
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Date published: 7:01 am, August 14th, 2017 - 53 comments
What a weekend of National panic that was. From desperate lies on water costs to repeating failed policy from 2008 to plans to wake parents up in the middle of the night to administer “instant fines” in a youth curfew. Jacinda Ardern’s Labour has got them on the run.
Leaders in the progressive government-in-waiting
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Date published: 6:28 am, August 14th, 2017 - 60 comments
Jacinda Ardern at the chippy and James Shaw in the House.
Open Mike 14/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 14th, 2017 - 49 comments
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National promises stronger, more skilled criminals
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Date published: 7:13 pm, August 13th, 2017 - 28 comments
National are going to send our most “hardened” youth offenders to the Army to be trained up. If that fails, they’ll send them to adult prisons to learn their craft better.
National promises to get tough on youth crime
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Date published: 1:08 pm, August 13th, 2017 - 77 comments
National has announced its policy to deal with youth crime by reannouncing a military service scheme that already exists, proposing a special category for young offenders that will have some young people seek that status and by proposing to fine parents who can’t keep their kids home at night.
Dunne over
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Date published: 10:14 am, August 13th, 2017 - 60 comments
On current polling the Nats are going to be short at least one of their puppet parties after the election.
The parties on science
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Date published: 8:28 am, August 13th, 2017 - 40 comments
There’s an interesting piece by Peter Griffin over at Sciblogs on various parties’ positions on science in NZ. Not many Kiwis vote on the basis of science – and that’s one of our problems.
The Greens: solidarity and resistance
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Date published: 7:30 am, August 13th, 2017 - 102 comments
Ahead of the Green Party’s election campaign relaunch this afternoon, let’s get a few things straight about who and what the Green Party is.
Green Party campaign relaunch 1.30pm Sunday
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Date published: 7:20 am, August 13th, 2017 - 28 comments
The Green party resets its election campaign.
Open Mike 13/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 13th, 2017 - 125 comments
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Fire and Fury over North Korea
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Date published: 3:00 pm, August 12th, 2017 - 60 comments
Donald Trump may not know it but Koreans certainly remember the last time the United States unleashed fire and fury over North Korea. In the 1950s, B-29s used bombs and napalm to flatten every North Korean city. Gen Curtis Lemay boasted that the USAF killed off 20% of the population. That’s why this time they have nuclear weapons.
3:43
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Date published: 12:15 pm, August 12th, 2017 - 4 comments
Great (Aussie) video on the gender pay gap… [twitter_video id=”895540259642986497″]
CTU President: All the way for equal pay
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Date published: 10:01 am, August 12th, 2017 - 29 comments
CTU President Richard Wagstaff writes on today’s actions about his opposition to the government attempt to dismember the historic decision in the Court of Appeal for pay equity by Kristine Bartlett and E tū. National has distorted the recommendations of the Joint Working Group to restrict or even eliminate equal pay for equal work.
The subversive power of joy
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Date published: 9:09 am, August 12th, 2017 - 9 comments
The subversive power of collective joy is maximised when it occurs in public, politicised spaces as an affirmation of collective identity.
Dylan Horrocks cartoon fundraiser for the Greens
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Date published: 7:52 am, August 12th, 2017 - 2 comments
…the original black & white art for page 152 of Dylan Horrocks’s graphic novel Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen (published 2014, nominated for an Eisner Award)
#IamMetiria for NZer of the Year
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Date published: 7:01 am, August 12th, 2017 - 104 comments
Newshub reports a surge in nominations for Metiria to be the New Zealander of the Year.
I just love this idea and would encourage others to nominate her too.
Open Mike 12/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 12th, 2017 - 52 comments
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Daily Review 11/08/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 11th, 2017 - 44 comments
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Impressed with James Shaw
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Date published: 9:03 am, August 11th, 2017 - 141 comments
I have been impressed with James Shaw lately. The Greens may have lost Turei, but they have seen Shaw grow in stature.
Do you?
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Date published: 9:00 am, August 11th, 2017 - 69 comments
In the interests of keeping it simple, an obvious fact or two and a basic proposition.
NZF is finished
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Date published: 8:43 am, August 11th, 2017 - 104 comments
Here’s a prediction for you.
Open Mike 11/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 11th, 2017 - 144 comments
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Annette King’s valedictory
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Date published: 9:59 pm, August 10th, 2017 - 36 comments
An excellent account of her time as the longest serving woman MP in the NZ parliament.
Daily Review 10/08/2017
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Date published: 7:05 pm, August 10th, 2017 - 39 comments
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Petition to Replace Mike Hosking as Election Debate Presenter
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Date published: 1:29 pm, August 10th, 2017 - 81 comments
“Hosking is an inappropriate choice to present the election debates in a fair, unbiased manner.”
Election debates to be 2 vs. 1
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Date published: 11:49 am, August 10th, 2017 - 33 comments
“Mike Hosking will present the TVNZ election debates again”.
Gower rightly apologises to Greens
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Date published: 11:44 am, August 10th, 2017 - 35 comments
“Newshub political editor Patrick Gower has apologised to Green Party leader James Shaw for suggesting a bad poll result drove his co-leader to quit.” If you are angry about this – use your vote…
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