Bennett faces petition and protest over historical allegations
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Date published: 6:29 am, August 7th, 2017 - 126 comments
No doubt those purity pledge campaigners who rained stones on Metiria Turei will be just as keen to get to the bottom of all this, and no doubt Paula Bennett will be keen to take personal responsibility and clear her name.
Open Mike 07/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 7th, 2017 - 135 comments
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Labour’s Auckland Transport announcement
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Date published: 1:30 pm, August 6th, 2017 - 102 comments
Labour has announced its Auckland Transport policy.
National’s Auckland Transport announcement
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Date published: 8:33 am, August 6th, 2017 - 15 comments
In an attempt to take the thunder away from Labour’s Auckland Transport announcement National’s offer was leaked this week to the Herald. But it is uninspiring, and shows a continued commitment to roading as providing a solution.
Paula Bennett says Jacinda lacks “the kind of brain” to lead
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Date published: 8:25 am, August 6th, 2017 - 83 comments
Back in May the Nats chose Nikki Kaye as their vehicle to attack Jacinda Ardern. It didn’t work so well. This time round they’ve lead with Paula Bennett. According to Bennett, Ardern lacks the right kind of brain. Keep talking Paula…
Lefties on The Standard
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 6th, 2017 - 72 comments
An experimental post on The Standard, providing a discussion space for left-wing people only.
Messages for the Left
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Date published: 6:59 am, August 6th, 2017 - 107 comments
Kōrero Pono writes about the class divide within the parliamentary Left and the importance of the wider Left’s message in this election.
Open Mike 06/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 6th, 2017 - 78 comments
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Hey Newshub polls – where are the results on the English-Barclay question?
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Date published: 8:54 am, August 5th, 2017 - 20 comments
I was a participant in last weekend’s Newshub poll. Along with the question on Metiria Turei’s actions I was asked a similar one whether Bill English was correct and honest in his handling of the Todd Barclay scandal. We’ve heard a lot about the answer to the first question, nothing at all on the second…
Gower on Turei’s sacrifice
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 5th, 2017 - 47 comments
Consider the sharp contrast between the lies and dirty politics that the Nats have brazened out in the last 9 years and the way that Metiria Turei fronted up and took responsibility for decades old youthful mistakes. Gower is right that it has headed off the Nats’ attack lines and they will be fuming.
I too, am not resigning
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Date published: 6:29 am, August 5th, 2017 - 210 comments
“there’s one standard for women who were fighting their way out of poverty and another for rich people who know they won’t really get called to account for their own personal histories so long as everyone involved keeps quiet.”
Pencilsword: Greed vs Need
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Date published: 6:15 am, August 5th, 2017 - 10 comments
Toby Morris explores the differences in how tax fraud and benefit fraud are dealt with, and asks where our sympathies should be.
Open Mike 05/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 5th, 2017 - 82 comments
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Daily Review 04/08/2017
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Date published: 5:39 pm, August 4th, 2017 - 34 comments
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Metiria Turei will not seek ministerial position
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Date published: 12:14 pm, August 4th, 2017 - 177 comments
At a noon press conference Metiria Turei announced that she is not resigning and will continue to lead the Greens, but she is not seeking a ministerial position in a new government. She takes responsibility for her past, but the work on a fair welfare system is more important than any one person.
‘Ardern Up! The T-shirt that every fashionable leftie will be wearing
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Date published: 11:02 am, August 4th, 2017 - 15 comments
Each one $10 to Women’s Refuge.
Health disasters – useless Coleman in all kinds of shit
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Date published: 9:59 am, August 4th, 2017 - 36 comments
The Health system is riddled with crises and useless Minister Jonathan Coleman is in all kinds of shit. He doesn’t seem to care any more and we won’t front up for interviews. Coleman is a disgrace.
This is why we need the Greens in government
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Date published: 7:15 am, August 4th, 2017 - 247 comments
Metiria Turei speaks from the heart about how hard it is to be on welfare, and the need for a more compassionate, caring welfare system.
Don’t expect the impossible of Ardern
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Date published: 7:01 am, August 4th, 2017 - 29 comments
I enjoy a ray of hope as much as the next leftie, and Jacinda Ardern is off to an incredible start, but let’s not burden her with impossible expectations.
No Right Turn: Dealing with ghost homes
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Date published: 6:23 am, August 4th, 2017 - 11 comments
“we want houses to be homes for people to live in, not gold bars for the rich”
Open Mike 04/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 4th, 2017 - 125 comments
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Daily Review 03/08/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 3rd, 2017 - 141 comments
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“It’s still the same Labour Party”
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Date published: 12:28 pm, August 3rd, 2017 - 58 comments
Steven Joyce wouldn’t front yesterday, but today National have worked out their attack lines. Leave popular Jacinda alone and attack Labour as tired and lacking in new ideas (projection, much?). Labour has a raft of new policy, to go with needed older one’s like 2013’s Kiwibuild of 100,000 affordable homes. Journos need to learn their policy so they don’t let National’s fake news through…
Women, know your place!
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Date published: 12:11 pm, August 3rd, 2017 - 54 comments
What decade are we in again?
The big mo #LetsDoThis
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Date published: 8:19 am, August 3rd, 2017 - 18 comments
Jacinda Ardern’s ascension to Labour’s leadership appears to have given the Party that most important of campaign phenomena, momentum.
The Ardern effect – and why this leadership change was different
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Date published: 7:01 am, August 3rd, 2017 - 60 comments
With donations and volunteers flooding in, I think it’s fair to say that reaction to Jacinda Ardern has exceeded all expectations. Why was this leadership change different? Two reasons…
Paula Bennett’s problems not over
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Date published: 6:38 am, August 3rd, 2017 - 28 comments
Not seeing very much of Paula Bennett about at the moment are we. Her lawyers shut down certain allegations against her, but it seems that they are not going away. Perhaps Bennett should get it all out in the open and clear her name. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?
Open Mike 03/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 3rd, 2017 - 166 comments
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Daily Review 02/08/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 2nd, 2017 - 72 comments
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Lifeline funding cut
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Date published: 1:10 pm, August 2nd, 2017 - 58 comments
Funding to Lifeline has been cut in favour of an organisation with a family link to Bill English. It may be completely innocent as all the interested parties claim. But it’s not a good look to be destroying Lifeline, an organisation doing world class work in an area of desperate need. You don’t easily replace that experience.
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