Written By:
mickysavage
Date published: 8:46 am, September 29th, 2023 - 35 comments
Categories: act, election 2023, national, nz first, racism, racism, same old national, winston peters
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Chris Hipkins has upped the ante in the election campaign by directly calling out the right’s use of dog whistle racism.
Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 6:05 am, September 29th, 2023 - 10 comments
Categories: election 2023
Tags: action station, Triple the Vote
“If you triple your vote, we triple our power to protect people and planet”
Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, September 29th, 2023 - 14 comments
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notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, September 29th, 2023 - 105 comments
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Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, September 28th, 2023 - 23 comments
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Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, September 28th, 2023 - 62 comments
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Written By:
nickkelly
Date published: 10:31 pm, September 27th, 2023 - 16 comments
Earlier this year Andrew Marr wrote in the New Statesmen, that Britain’s problem was that it wanted Scandinavian levels of Public Services and North American levels of taxation. His view was that Britain was overdue for an honest debate about tax and public spending. In New Zealand, there is a similar challenge.
Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, September 27th, 2023 - 68 comments
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Written By:
mickysavage
Date published: 2:18 pm, September 27th, 2023 - 26 comments
National’s failure to adequately explain how its new revenue policies will work has seen its support sag. And its problem is that if it depends on Winston Peters for confidence and supply he has expressed major reservations about these policies and there is no guarantee he will support them. And a significant majority of New Zealanders understand this.
Written By:
weka
Date published: 6:05 am, September 27th, 2023 - 31 comments
Don’t share defeatist bollocks. It tells swing, undecided and habitual non-voters to not bother voting left. Instead, there are still actions that will make a difference over the next three weeks.
Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, September 27th, 2023 - 85 comments
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Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, September 26th, 2023 - 15 comments
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Written By:
mickysavage
Date published: 10:22 am, September 26th, 2023 - 63 comments
As the polls show a further slump in support for the right and as Winston Peters emerges as a kingmaker there is growing concern about the possibility of a real coalition of chaos being elected.
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notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, September 26th, 2023 - 98 comments
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notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, September 25th, 2023 - 35 comments
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Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 9:35 am, September 25th, 2023 - 2 comments
“The extreme weather events that Aotearoa has seen this year have been supercharged by climate change. How we go about building resilient and affordable communities that meet everyone’s needs despite the challenges of climate change will be a critical question for the next government. For the Greens, the answer is clear: we must slash our emissions, and take action to protect our homes and communities from extreme weather”
Written By:
mickysavage
Date published: 8:58 am, September 25th, 2023 - 39 comments
Nicola Willis has essentially confirmed that the design of National’s foreign purchase of land tax was and remains sufficient to be done on the back of an envelope.
Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, September 25th, 2023 - 77 comments
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Written By:
mickysavage
Date published: 7:59 am, September 24th, 2023 - 22 comments
After Stats NZ shot down National’s claim that the country is in recession National pirouetted by claiming that New Zealand WILL be in recession in the near future and that the Reserve Bank has predicted this. But according to the Reserve Bank this may not be true …
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notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, September 24th, 2023 - 59 comments
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Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, September 23rd, 2023 - 64 comments
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Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, September 22nd, 2023 - 7 comments
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Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, September 22nd, 2023 - 66 comments
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Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, September 21st, 2023 - 27 comments
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Written By:
mickysavage
Date published: 2:00 pm, September 21st, 2023 - 39 comments
Fact checking by TVNZ has determined that much of what Christopher Luxon said in the recent leader’s debate was not true.
Written By:
mickysavage
Date published: 11:29 am, September 21st, 2023 - 55 comments
The growth figures are up and National operatives will be in despair. Not only did the economy grow considerably faster than anticipated in the last quarter at 0.9% but the previous quarter’s figure has been resolved from -0.1% to 0%.
Written By:
nickkelly
Date published: 9:07 am, September 21st, 2023 - 7 comments
A year ago this month, the Liz Truss/Kwasi Kwarteng mini-budget destroyed once and for all the myth that the Tories are better at managing the economy. The New Zealand National Party could not even wait until they were in government to prove the same applies to them.
Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, September 21st, 2023 - 79 comments
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Written By:
notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, September 20th, 2023 - 21 comments
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Written By:
mickysavage
Date published: 9:00 am, September 20th, 2023 - 65 comments
ACT’s proposal to put the potential meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi up for popular vote in a referendum is absurd dog whistling of the worst sort.
Written By:
nickkelly
Date published: 6:01 am, September 20th, 2023 - 15 comments
From the outside, the New Zealand 2023 General Election seems both lacklustre and slightly strange. The Labour Government, having won a huge majority in 2020 is now fighting for its political life. Yet National, the main centre-right opposition party is still on average polling significantly worse now than they were when it lost power in 2017.
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