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The best you can hope for, after the Local Government elections
Written By: - Date published: 8:07 am, October 11th, 2016 - 55 comments
Now that the local government elections have been completed what is the best that local communities can expect of their elected representatives?
Local Government results good for Labour and terrible for National
Written By: - Date published: 11:18 am, October 9th, 2016 - 80 comments
In Auckland, Christchurch and in mayoral races throughout the country Labour and Progressives had a very good day while National and its proxies must be wondering what they did wrong.
Local Government election results
Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, October 8th, 2016 - 119 comments
A running post for people to comment on local government election results as they come in.
Expect results to come in from 1 pm.
Campaigning westie style …
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, October 6th, 2016 - 12 comments
The Matafai aiga from West Auckland show how to campaign.
Goff on foreign buyers; and Vote!
Written By: - Date published: 2:06 pm, October 3rd, 2016 - 5 comments
Ban them / tax them, but lets reduce demand. And make sure you get your vote in for local elections!
WMBAD: #PleaseNewZealand, get out and vote
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, September 30th, 2016 - 14 comments
Your voting papers may be terrifying, but you have to make them count.
Even more local body elections advice
Written By: - Date published: 6:09 pm, September 26th, 2016 - 12 comments
Since first posting Who should you vote for? a week ago I’ve been directed to even more endorsement lists and voting guides for local body candidates up and down the country. So if you still don’t know who to vote for, check them out.
Is Vic Crone racist?
Written By: - Date published: 10:51 am, September 22nd, 2016 - 198 comments
Vic Crone is trying to make a story out of the fact that Phil Goff is against foreign ownership of our housing stock, but accepted $250,000 from the NZ Chinese community at a fundraiser. Does she not see a difference between NZ Chinese and foreigners?
Who should you vote for?
Written By: - Date published: 6:39 pm, September 20th, 2016 - 38 comments
All the local body election endorsements you could possibly want.
Just vote – Auckland Council version
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, September 18th, 2016 - 31 comments
It is local government election time. If you want to vote for progressive candidates these are some suggestions.
Translating the local government election jargon
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 pm, September 16th, 2016 - 13 comments
The PSA has produced a nice guide to cut through all the buzzwords in local body elections.
The other war of the polls
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, September 16th, 2016 - 28 comments
The Dominion Post has received not one, but two polls on the Wellington mayoralty. So who’s coming out on top?
Right-wing mayor candidates try to kneecap themselves
Written By: - Date published: 7:07 am, September 15th, 2016 - 82 comments
Vic Crone isn’t sure humans are causing climate change, Palino doesn’t think Auckland is all that super, and Mark Thomas just wants people not to vote for Goff… It’s hardly an enticing bunch.
Beware, creepy men of the right: Rawshark returns (briefly)
Written By: - Date published: 6:30 pm, September 14th, 2016 - 82 comments
An old handle flickered back into life briefly this afternoon: In 2014 I dumped: https://t.co/UhZSYEYyar — Whaledump2 (@whaledump2) September 14, 2016 Rawshark – presuming the account is still held and operated by the hacker who exposed the dodgy shenanigans between the WhaleOil blog, corporate lobbyists and senior National Party politicians – started with a screenshot from […]
Eileen Brown for CCDHB
Written By: - Date published: 10:01 pm, September 6th, 2016 - 2 comments
Capital Coast DHB candidate Eileen Brown chairs the Newtown Union Health Service Board, a primary care service for people on low incomes. For the last 10 years, Eileen has worked for the Council of Trade Unions as a senior policy analyst; previously she worked in nursing in many areas including mental health and neuro rehabilitation. Eileen is standing as a Labour candidate. She’d be great on the DHB.
Take the power back
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 am, September 5th, 2016 - 48 comments
The Jobs That Count campaign isn’t just about Talley’s AFFCO. It’s about getting local councils that work for all of us and make sure that the big businesses in our communities give back to us.
The Mayoral candidates and the living wage proposal
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, September 4th, 2016 - 29 comments
I attended the Living Wage People’s assembly this week in St Matthews in the City. The idea behind the meeting was to get Mayoral and Waitemata ward candidates to express their views on the living wage proposal as well as improved public transport services and rental accommodation standards. The organiser was Living Wage Aotearoa who have been […]
Take back our communities and create Jobs That Count
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, August 21st, 2016 - 22 comments
So often we lose sight of the fact that local government is about much, much more than rates. We’re launching a Jobs That Count ticket to change that.
Why do right wing politicians like stealing dead babies identities?
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, August 14th, 2016 - 15 comments
Savea Peseta Al Harrington Lavea, Auckland Future candidate for the Whau Local Board, shares an unfortunate similarity with David Garrett.
Auckland Future’s fuster cluck of a campaign
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, August 13th, 2016 - 4 comments
Auckland Future’s campaign has struck problems with candidates being nominated for the wrong positions, multiple right wing candidates running for the same positions and questions over whether the vetting of candidates has been as optimal as could be hoped for.
Justin Lester launches campaign for Wellington Mayor
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, April 4th, 2016 - 34 comments
Justin Lester launched his campaign for the Wellington mayoralty yesterday, focusing on housing, supporting small business and social services.
Leggett does a runner
Written By: - Date published: 5:58 pm, March 11th, 2016 - 16 comments
Porirua Mayor Nick Leggett says he will announce his decision about running for Mayor of Wellington at a launch later this month. It sounds like he has already made up his mind about what he is running for; the real question is what is he running from?
Fuster and Cluck ride again?
Written By: - Date published: 1:39 pm, February 27th, 2016 - 13 comments
John Palino has all but announced that he will also stand for the super city Mayoralty and there is a rumour that Simon Lusk will be his campaign manager.
Local Democracy
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, December 19th, 2015 - 35 comments
Ad discusses a phenomenon where Local Government is having a greater and greater effect on New Zealand’s development. But local politicians are having less and less effect.
Standing in the Shadow of the Red Flag
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, November 25th, 2015 - 47 comments
“Why would Goff stand for the Auckland mayoralty as an independent candidate considering his life-long commitment to the Labour Party?”
Why indeed?
Is it time for Labour to stand candidates in local elections under the party banner? And can the party lift its profile and its general election prospects by being bolder in the provinces?
Five years as a united Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, October 30th, 2015 - 168 comments
Auckland Council is delivering a publication to all Auckland households celebrating five years of Auckland super city. But is there any reason to celebrate?
Future Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 8:35 am, October 19th, 2015 - 20 comments
There are rumours that National is looking to organise a new regional ticket, Future Auckland, to contest next year’s local body elections in Auckland.
Auckland Council Mayoral candidates – Mark Thomas
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, September 24th, 2015 - 21 comments
Mark Thomas who has close ties with the National Party has announced that he is going to run for the Auckland Mayoralty next year.
Len Brown is toast
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, March 18th, 2015 - 117 comments
Bernard Orsman has reported in the Herald today that Len Brown’s campaign team no longer back him and are considering support for a Phil Goff run for the mayoralty.
Local Leadership
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 pm, February 4th, 2015 - 3 comments
The Labour Local Government Council ran a hui last Friday in Wellington. I went along and it was one of the better Labour events I have been to in a long time – community-based organisers sharing and discussing what works. Crosby/Textor is onto it too.
NRT: No justice for electoral fraud
Written By: - Date published: 4:05 pm, February 19th, 2014 - 28 comments
Daljit Singh got an inappropriately short sentence for committing electoral fraud. It is hardly a deterrent to prospective politicians from trying to fiddle the electoral system. What was interesting was the way that the fraud was picked up – using back end systems. Far better than the type of populist stupidity to intimidate voters that National MP’s are currently supporting.
- Have the Greens gone ‘radical’?
by Phil Duncan Well, according to the media – and there seems to be quite a consensus – the answer to the question above is a resounding ‘yes’. According to Tim Murphy, co-editor of Newsroom, policies adopted at last weekend’s ...7 hours ago - The no go area
By Don Franks In a few short weeks, all New Zealand citizens over 18 not in prison will be entitled to cast a vote electing the countries parliament. This modern set of rights is an undeniable step up from the ...10 hours ago - NZ Initiative – Bulk Funding Schools
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The State Services Commission has released the results of its inquiry into retaliation by convicted fraudster Joanne Harrison against staff who tried to blow the whistle on her. They're pretty devastating: Four whistleblowers at the Ministry of Transport suffered "humiliating" ...15 hours ago - Cuts to Otago University support roles puts teaching at risk
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21 hours ago - Te Ara Raro – The Underline
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- National culpable for youth suicide
The youth suicide rate in New Zealand is atrocious! Every year it stands as an embarrassing failure of our system to look after and value young people properly. But why have things got so bad? Well one reason is a ...1 day ago - Gordon Campbell on the ch-ch-changes at IRD
First published on Werewolf New Zealand may pride itself on being relatively free of political corruption, but the corruption of our political language has built up a fine head of steam. On any number of issues we’re now supposedly engaged ...1 day ago - Nats targeting overseas voters
Today an interesting thing happened to me. I visited the Otago Daily Times’ website to take a look at their coverage of Labour MP Clare Curran’s homelessness protest in Dunedin. She’s doing a great job, check it out. However, one ...1 day ago - Hard News: 100 Men and a million stories
Paul Oremland was born gay in a New Zealand where homosexual conduct was a criminal offence, to deeply religious parents who regarded it as a mortal sin. Not long after a disastrous attempt to pray away the gay by studying ...2 days ago - Comment on Failure looks like social policy that makes life harder for people by Matthew Horrocks
Great article Jess. The research into the effects of stress on people with low incomes as described here is compelling. Its not just low-income groups affected. Anecdotally I’d say the financial pressures you describe are also having a devastating effect ...2 days ago - Who needs tax collectors anyway?New Zealand has a problem with tax cheats. Large multinational corporations, rich pricks, dodgy tradespeople, all not paying their fair share. So naturally, National is gutting the IRD:Staff at Inland Revenue offices around the country have been told 30 percent ...2 days ago
- Meet the GirlBoss getting young women into science and tech
Flying high. Photo: Supplied Alexia Hilbertidou has just returned from the edge of space and is determined to break down boundaries for young women in male-dominated scientific industries. The 18-year-old with Samoan and Greek heritage founded GirlBoss ...2 days ago - If this is “terrorism”, we should all be “terrorists”Turkey has arrested six human rights activists for "terrorism":Amnesty International urged the British government to end its silence over Turkey’s slide into authoritarian rule on Tuesday after its local director and five other activists were remanded in custody on accusations ...2 days ago
- My White Car Theory
2 days ago - Farmers never learnThe dairy lobby is trying to tell us that farmers are cleaning up their act and polluting less. Meanwhile, a Waikato farmer has been convicted for the second time of pouring his cowshit into the local river:A south Waikato dairy ...2 days ago
- A game of hide and seekRadio New Zealand reports on the Ministry of Transport's attempts to bury information about its resident fraudster Joanne Harrison:Emails from the Transport Minister show he told his own ministry that its plans to withhold information from a Labour MP were ...2 days ago
- Failure looks like social policy that makes life harder for people
With the discussion we are having about social policy at the moment I thought it would be good to discuss the science of what happens to anyone who lives on a low income, especially over any prolonged period of time, ...2 days ago - Labour finally opens its walletLabour has announced a massive spending package this morning, aimed at restoring our health, education and welfare systems after National's neglect:Labour has run its numbers and opened its books, promising multi-billion-dollar injections into health and education. If elected, Labour ...2 days ago
- Noticing Neoliberalism’s Nakedness.
2 days ago - Further thoughts on the CRL accessibility issue
Following on from my post the other day about The Spinoff’s interview with the City Rail Link team and some of their concerning comments, I thought I’d take a look at a few issues from a slightly different angle. In ...2 days ago - The polarised immigration debate
2 days ago - Back to School — School Zones in New Zealand vis-a-vis the Netherlands
New Zealand has — compared to most countries around the world — done fairly well of late. We’ve avoided the disastrous youth unemployment afflicting many countries in Europe (although thankfully they appear to have turned the corner) and our Government’s fiscal ...2 days ago - Inferno V: into the unseeing world
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First published on Werewolf Try and guess which party I’m talking about. They’ve led the way in promoting women to leadership positions, and in allowing their MPs to vote according to their conscience. They’ve never won much in the way ...2 days ago - Is energy ‘dominance’ the right goal for US policy?
Daniel Raimi, Senior research associate (Resources for the Future), Lecturer (University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy), University of Michigan This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In recent weeks, a new energy buzzword ...3 days ago - Dealing with the tax cheatsNew Zealand has a problem: large multinational companies like Facebook, Amazon, and RT cheating ontheir taxes. Now Labour is proposing a solution: a diverted profits tax:Labour is promising to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars a year from multinationals ...3 days ago
- But they still hate catsGareth Morgan's Opportunities Party has announced a $200 a week youth UBI:All New Zealanders between 18 and 23 will be given an obligation-free $200 a week under an Opportunities Party policy announced this afternoon. The policy would allow young people ...3 days ago
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- Oceanic stories for the 21st century
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- Police are not entitled to special treatment
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- Station gating underway at Henderson
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“We will not be a government that uses poverty as a weapon against its own people.” - Metiria Turei, Co-Leader of The Greens Video courtesy of YouTube This posting is exclusive to Bowalley Road. ...3 days ago - National’s suicide rate fiasco
3 days ago - Corbyn and the British left: a Dunedin talk/discussion, Friday, July 21A visiting activist from Britain will be speaking on this subject in Dunedin on Friday, July 21. The meeting is from 6-7.30pm in the central city. Dani is a zero-hours contract worker and active in a community housing campaign ...3 days ago
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In May this year, two brothers, Vázquez and Agustín Torres, were murdered near Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico. They were Wixárika (Huichol) leaders, working to preserve their land from incursion by cattle ranchers and drug cartels. This tragedy of greed and ...3 days ago - The Bright Sunlit Uplands Of Radicalism: Metiria Turei And The Greens Set The 2017 Election On Fire.
3 days ago - Don’t rely on sources – follow the evidence
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When Shepard Smith of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News lambasted Donald Trump on-screen this week for ‘lie after lie after lie’, it was a hugely significant turning point for the Trump presidency. The President has hitherto been able to rely ...3 days ago - The confusing politics of immigration
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This Briefing Paper is part of a longer report on housing prices, available on The Policy Observatory website, here. Historically housing prices in New Zealand have risen a little faster than consumer prices, but the increase has been ...3 days ago - Support “Not Voting is a Political Act”People from this blog and people from AWSM (Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement) are currently working together to encourage people not to vote, and do so as a conscious political choice, in the September general election. The facebook page will, in ...3 days ago
- Is the basic income “barking” or an idea whose time has come?
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First published on Werewolf It made for an unusual Venn diagram, but Greens co-leader Metiria Turei and Finance Minister Steven Joyce were briefly sharing some common elements this week in the set that says – hey, don’t use the powers ...3 days ago - Turei’s confession: What’s good for the goose…The response to Greens co-leader Metiria Turei's admission that she lied to Work & Income (WINZ) while she was a solo mum in the 1990s seems to have split, rather predictably, along ideological lines. Saint or sinner, criminal or victim. ...3 days ago
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- Don’t waste your vote on Gareth Morgan
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- Accountability measuresNational supposedly loves targets, on the basis that they allow the government to be held accountable for failure. But when you look inside the sausage factory, its not a pretty picture:A goal of reducing New Zealand's total suicide rate by ...4 days ago
- Standing on their principlesThe Greens held their party conference over the weekend, and announced a $1.5 billion families package aimed at massively relieving poverty in New Zealand. Benefits would be raised, the minimum wage increased, child support universalised, and the boot of WINZ ...4 days ago
- Hard News: On benefit fraudResponses to Metiria Turei's confession of historic benefit fraud have fallen along the lines you would expect. The usual suspects on the right have leapt on it, others have expressed sympathy and the range of opinions on the political wisdom ...4 days ago
- Absolutely outrageousWe all knew that Horowhenua District Council was a toxic environment, with the council and Chief Executive refusing to accept the election of a new mayor. But Radio New Zealand this morning reported that its Chief Executive was spying on ...4 days ago
- Our lack of walkable cities is helping make us obese
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- Voter Motivators 2017: Poverty.
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- Labour to work with Queenstown to build more houses
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- New revelations in Joanne Harrison reportThe State Services Commission’s report into the treatment of whistle-blowers by Joanne Harrison has revealed new accusations against the convicted fraudster, says Labour MP Sue Moroney. “The report found that four staff inside the Ministry of Transport who had raised ...15 hours ago
- Snafu at Princess MargaretJonathan Coleman has to stop the stalling over a new building for mental health services in Christchurch to replace the quake damaged Princess Margaret Hospital, says Labour’s Health spokesperson David Clark. “The Government must accept that Christchurch is still recovering ...23 hours ago
- Labour’s fiscal plan to build a fairer New ZealandLabour will re-build our housing, health and education while responsibly managing New Zealand’s finances, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. “Under Labour’s Fiscal Plan we will deliver big investments in the services we all need and care about, invest ...2 days ago
- Nats show they’re the tax dodgers’ best friendsThe government is taking the knife to IRD at a time when we need a highly skilled department to ensure that multinationals and speculators don’t get away with dodging tax, says Labour’s Revenue spokesperson Michael Wood. ...2 days ago
- Labour secures the future for NZ SuperA Labour Government will secure the future for New Zealand Superannuation so we can continue to provide superannuation to those retiring at age 65, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. “One of the first things a Labour-led Government will ...3 days ago
- Multinationals must pay fair share of taxA Labour Government will crack down on multinational companies that are dodging paying their fair share of tax, says Labour Leader Andrew Little. “New Zealanders are missing out by hundreds of millions according to the IRD because multinational companies can ...3 days ago
- ACT’s approach to children backward and ill informedAct’s new deputy leader’s claim that Labour’s support for families could “extend the misery of child poverty and even child abuse” is ill informed and offensive, says Labour’s Deputy Leader Jacinda Ardern. ...7 days ago
- Canterbury hatchet job a disgraceThe Government’s glib acceptance of advice that the Canterbury District Health Board doesn’t need more money is a hatchet job and a disgrace, says Labour’s Health Spokesperson David Clark. “To claim that the DHB was using tactics to leverage more ...7 days ago
- Quality for Kiwi kids at ECEAfter more than a decade of rapid growth in the number of children participating in Early Childhood Education (ECE), it’s time to take stock and map out a clear plan for the future, says Labour’s Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins. ...7 days ago
- Labour to boost ECE qualityLabour will ensure kids get the best start in life by boosting funding for Early Childhood Centres to employ 100 per cent qualified and registered teachers, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. ...7 days ago
- Labour will stump up a million dollars for Maniototo HospitalA Labour led Government will make a million dollars available to rebuild the Maniototo Base hospital in Ranfurly, says the Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. “This will be a much needed boost for a long overdue rebuild that has ...7 days ago
- No vision for the West CoastThe West Coast welcomes any Government investment in our region but the lack of any real alternative vision for the West Coast’s economy is disappointing, says Damien O’Connor Labour’s West Coast-Tasman MP. “The establishment of a Mining Research Unit will ...1 week ago
- National’s youth work scheme too little too lateAfter nine years, National’s belated attempt to provide work opportunities for unemployed youth should be seen for what it is, a half-hearted, election gimmick from a party that’s ignored the problem till now, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. ...1 week ago
- Kiwis won’t fall for Joyce’s spinSteven Joyce’s embarrassingly obvious spin on Labour’s Families Package won’t fool anyone, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson. ...1 week ago
- Labour prioritises families and public servicesLabour’s Families Package delivers a bigger income boost to more than 70 per cent of families with children than Budget 2017. By not spending $1.5 billion a year on tax cuts, Labour is able to do more for lower and ...1 week ago
- Kiwis can’t sleep in your ghost houses, NickThe Government’s housing infrastructure announcement is another Nick Smith special – over-promising with no detail on delivery, says Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford. ...1 week ago
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