Written By: - Date published: 7:52 am, March 7th, 2017 - 43 comments
English isn’t going to be very happy when he opens the papers this morning.
Written By: - Date published: 7:37 am, March 7th, 2017 - 20 comments
Donald Trump’s recently announced replacement policy in immigration is wrong. And this is why.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 7th, 2017 - 52 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, March 6th, 2017 - 1 comment
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Written By: - Date published: 4:08 pm, March 6th, 2017 - 123 comments
In what seems to have been a panicked reaction to a disastrous series of interviews, English has just announced that the age of eligibility for super will rise from 65 to 67, phased in from 2037.
Written By: - Date published: 2:48 pm, March 6th, 2017 - 3 comments
I/S at No Right Turn: “This is where National’s cuts and austerity have taken us: to a place where Corrections tortures and abuses people because it is the “cheapest” way of managing them.”
Written By: - Date published: 11:54 am, March 6th, 2017 - 33 comments
Bowron: “Prime Minister Bill English’s reputation as a safe pair of blands taking the reins after the mysterious disappearance of John Key took a dive last week when he ruthlessly and cynically turned on Kiwi youth.”
Written By: - Date published: 8:35 am, March 6th, 2017 - 61 comments
Shambolic scenes as Bill English’s twitter account tweets criticism of John Key not taking the hard decisions regarding superannuation eligibility, then the tweet gets deleted. And Bill did not know the tweet had been sent out.
Written By: - Date published: 7:32 am, March 6th, 2017 - 6 comments
We no longer need the Waitangi Tribunal because everything’s fine now. Right?
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 6th, 2017 - 146 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 1:18 pm, March 5th, 2017 - 9 comments
What to do with the helpless anger generated by such a statement?
Written By: - Date published: 9:59 am, March 5th, 2017 - 6 comments
Just a selection of images that sum up the week in politics (courtesy of the twitter).
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, March 5th, 2017 - 21 comments
Swimmable standards that aren’t, for all of our rivers except most of them, sometime maybe not now. Nat policy at its finest.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 5th, 2017 - 67 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 11:14 pm, March 4th, 2017 - 47 comments
First they came for the budgeting services. Now we know that every social service agency has to provide clients’ private personal data to the Ministry of Social Development or get no funding. Apparently it’s essential to Bill English’s much-touted and little understood “social investment” strategy, which is sounding more like something out of Orwell’s 1984. […]
Written By: - Date published: 1:41 pm, March 4th, 2017 - 93 comments
In what was apparently a pretty dire interview on The Nation this morning, Bill English dropped one bombshell, possible changes in superannuation. For the record I think English is right on this. For a change.
Written By: - Date published: 8:36 am, March 4th, 2017 - 15 comments
Labour Party General Secretary Andrew Kirton recently sent out a message to Labour Candidates which of itself was a lesson on all things social media …
Written By: - Date published: 8:34 am, March 4th, 2017 - 69 comments
A confluence of circumstantial evidence is all you ever get when you’re dealing with cryptofascists.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, March 4th, 2017 - 22 comments
2017 will be New Zealand’s eighth election under MMP, over 22 years. With very strong democratically elected governments appearing right across the world digging in for the long term, it’s useful to take a moment for MMP.
Written By: - Date published: 7:04 am, March 4th, 2017 - 82 comments
A recent UN report highlights the waste of treating homes as commodities. It should sound awfully familiar in the NZ context.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 4th, 2017 - 11 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 5:49 pm, March 3rd, 2017 - 5 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 1:32 pm, March 3rd, 2017 - 25 comments
A refreshing shift in NZ’s political environment.
Written By: - Date published: 11:53 am, March 3rd, 2017 - 39 comments
Watching Steve Brannon and his alter ego Donald Trump operate from a long way away is almost amusing. Total confidence == Jeff Sessions needs to recuse himself from the enquiry into unlawful contacts with the Russians..
Written By: - Date published: 11:38 am, March 3rd, 2017 - 9 comments
I well remember going to see new Minister of Employment Annette King in 1989 to ask for support for group apprenticeship in the motor industry. “Seems like a good idea, we’ll put up $50,000.” she said. I nearly fell off my chair. It was not the usual response from Ministers in those days, but is Annette King to a T – positive, decisive, and supportive.
Written By: - Date published: 9:45 am, March 3rd, 2017 - 87 comments
Helen Clark wrote the book on MMP coalition government, shoring up alliances on the left and the right. Looks like Andrew Little has read the book. Labour + Green + NZF = government.
Written By: - Date published: 7:38 am, March 3rd, 2017 - 19 comments
Andrew Little has confirmed that the Green Party will be first party Labour looks to for a coalition deal after the election.
Written By: - Date published: 7:18 am, March 3rd, 2017 - 36 comments
In every case a failure to plan, a failure to deliver, and a glib attempt to fob off the victims of his government’s failure.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 3rd, 2017 - 53 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, March 2nd, 2017 - 41 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 11:58 am, March 2nd, 2017 - 154 comments
Auckland Uni is in a difficult position – a classic dilemma with two important principles at stake.
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