Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, April 24th, 2024 - 5 comments
The culture wars exist, and they are a tool weaponised in the class war.
Written By: - Date published: 8:26 am, April 17th, 2024 - 85 comments
Having a decent home is a human right
Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, April 15th, 2024 - 144 comments
The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.
It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.
Written By: - Date published: 6:07 am, April 8th, 2024 - 91 comments
“It is simply mind-boggling,” said Prof Michael Meredith, science leader at the British Antarctic Survey. “In sub-zero temperatures such a massive leap is tolerable but if we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population.”
Written By: - Date published: 9:54 am, April 5th, 2024 - 7 comments
All those climate scientists talking about temperature recently? This is what it means for us, right here, right now, and for the rest of our lives
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, March 22nd, 2024 - 89 comments
We can see NACTF’s current fuckery as being part of the same dynamic. The job cuts, mining and oil drilling, attacks on disabled people and beneficiaries, the threat to news media, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, the war on nature, all of these are contained within the climate/ecology crises, and arise out of the same condition
Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, March 13th, 2024 - 18 comments
meanwhile…
Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, March 10th, 2024 - 71 comments
In her first speech as Green Party Co-Leader, Swarbrick brings the party’s Charter to the fore, and talks about mobilising citizens to be part of democracy.
Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, February 1st, 2024 - 11 comments
Take your dirty boots off at the door ya numpties.
Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, January 17th, 2024 - 11 comments
Newbies, moderation, the purpose of the Standard, how things work here.
Written By: - Date published: 12:50 pm, January 11th, 2024 - 89 comments
Some of the usual suspects… how would we know what is really going on?
Written By: - Date published: 12:05 pm, October 15th, 2023 - 75 comments
The trad left/right spectrum people are wondering why the Greens are so happy. Didn’t the left just lose?
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, October 5th, 2023 - 40 comments
National’s tax policy doesn’t add up, and they’re trashing election and media conventions to avoid accountability. UPDATED.
Written By: - Date published: 10:49 am, October 2nd, 2023 - 116 comments
Jack Tame vs Winston Peters.
Written By: - 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: - Date published: 10:21 am, September 18th, 2023 - 65 comments
“A re-elected Labour Government will continue its proud tradition of advancing women’s health, employment, and legal rights Spokesperson for Women Jan Tinetti said.”
Written By: - Date published: 6:46 pm, September 14th, 2023 - 70 comments
Jack Tame hosts the debate between Labour’s Finance Minister and Finance Spokespersons from the Greens, NZ First, National and Act.
Written By: - Date published: 12:34 pm, August 31st, 2023 - 44 comments
Now is not the time to give up, now is the time to work harder at winning.
Written By: - Date published: 11:14 am, August 25th, 2023 - 7 comments
As always, if you want to understand green politics, listen to what the Green MPs say themselves. This speech is no exception.
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 am, August 23rd, 2023 - 38 comments
The political courage of the Green Party is paying off.
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, August 18th, 2023 - 7 comments
Our descendants will curse us
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, August 8th, 2023 - 5 comments
“Unpredictable change is the new status quo”
Written By: - Date published: 1:18 pm, July 27th, 2023 - 4 comments
Some guidelines about current moderation.
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, July 24th, 2023 - 66 comments
“No party who wants to work with us after 14th October should ever take our support for granted”
With the urgency of the climate crisis upon us, the Greens are finally willing to use the cross benches card.
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, July 18th, 2023 - 56 comments
The term landback appears to induce anxiety in some people, but whether one agrees with the details or not, there’s nothing in this Green Party policy to be afraid of.
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, July 9th, 2023 - 69 comments
James Shaw’s speech to the Greens’ AGM is showing us this is the party with the actual plan for how to get through the crisis.
Written By: - Date published: 11:36 am, July 5th, 2023 - 211 comments
“science would be taught through five contexts – the Earth system, biodiversity, food, energy and water, infectious diseases”
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, July 3rd, 2023 - 66 comments
“Right now, the rental market more closely resembles a game of monopoly than a public good – and it’s landlords who hold all the cards. This didn’t happen by accident. For decades, governments have made rules to prioritise those who own property and failed to protect people who rent.”
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, July 3rd, 2023 - 20 comments
“Something went wrong”
Written By: - Date published: 10:58 am, July 2nd, 2023 - 50 comments
“We are the only political party in New Zealand that puts women first”
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, June 12th, 2023 - 160 comments
Poverty is a political choice, and the Green Party is choosing to end it. – James Shaw
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