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Labour’s Auckland Push

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 10:51 am, August 30th, 2016 - 57 comments

Matt McCarten is to head a new Labour party office in Auckland. The party is going to take to fight to National in the city that decides the election. Yet another bold step from Andrew Little, who is looking more and more like the next PM.

Roy Morgan August; Nat’s Down 7%

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 7:50 pm, August 29th, 2016 - 268 comments

The latest Roy Morgan is out. A solid 7% drop for National.

Robertson: Lessons from the Future of Work Commission

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:22 pm, August 26th, 2016 - 10 comments

Robertson: “What is the economic paradigm that will meet the challenge of world of less secure work, more automation?”

Andrew Little on housing

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:16 am, August 23rd, 2016 - 109 comments

Andrew Little: “John Key will give you all the excuses you can stomach for his failure to stabilise house prices and boost incomes but the truth is clear: if we want to change the path we’re on, we need to change the government.”

Guest post: Tane Phillips for Māori Vice President

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:00 am, August 23rd, 2016 - 11 comments

The Standard’s authors have offered candidates for the upcoming Labour Party internal elections the chance to guest post about why they’re running. Tane Phillips has been nominated for the position of Māori Vice President. Here’s his vision for the role and the party.

The cross-party inquiry into homelessness is under way

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 1:04 pm, August 22nd, 2016 - 48 comments

After National blocked a proposed official inquiry into homelessness, Labour, The Greens and The Maori Party went ahead with their own. It will no doubt come up with useful recommendations. But to see them implemented we will need to change the government.

In praise of David Shearer

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:31 pm, August 15th, 2016 - 10 comments

David Shearer has criticised the Australian Government as having lost its “moral compass” in relation to the Nauru Asylum Detention Centre.

Labour on student debt – beware of clickbait headlines

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:48 pm, August 10th, 2016 - 125 comments

“Revealed: Labour’s plan to wipe student debt”. Nope. Saved you a click.

Labour’s Kiwibuild is popular

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:49 am, August 9th, 2016 - 81 comments

More good news for the political left in the fine print of yesterday’s Newshub-Reid Research poll.

Newshub Poll: Key Stuffed

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 6:50 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 113 comments

The latest Reid Research poll is grim reading for the Nats. Labour and the Greens are closing fast.

Wahine toa

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:04 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 38 comments

Nanaia Mahuta will tomorrow become the first woman MP to wear the moko in Parliament.

Labour plans to crack down on negative gearing

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:31 am, August 5th, 2016 - 130 comments

Labour has announced that it will review tax exemptions for landlords achieved through negative gearing.

Guest post: Eva Hartshorn-Sanders for Senior Vice President

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 pm, August 3rd, 2016 - 67 comments

The Standard’s authors have offered candidates for the upcoming Labour Party internal elections the chance to guest post about why they’re running. Eva Hartshorn-Sanders has been nominated for the position of Senior Vice President. Here’s her vision for the role and the party.

The Unitary Plan will not solve the Housing Crisis

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:30 am, August 1st, 2016 - 9 comments

The Unitary Plan has been described as a panacea for the housing crisis by the Government. But will it actually address this most acute of issues?

The future of work

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:41 am, July 29th, 2016 - 25 comments

The Herald (Liam Dann) had a Terminator themed piece on the future of work yesterday. If only there was a party that was thinking about these long term issues!

NZ wins nuclear war

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:45 pm, July 21st, 2016 - 19 comments

Nothing like a good clickbait headline eh!

Submit to the Cross-Party Homelessness Inquiry

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 4:41 pm, July 20th, 2016 - 1 comment

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More bold intervention needed

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, July 17th, 2016 - 71 comments

National Labour and the Greens are all proposing to intervene in the market to do something about the housing crisis. What other policy areas are there where the parties can agree on active state intervention?

The times they are a changing

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:51 pm, July 15th, 2016 - 84 comments

Dedicated to the latest UMR poll that Bomber reports has Labour on 33%, the Greens on 12% and National on 41% …

Labour’s housing crisis interactive

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:53 pm, July 14th, 2016 - 49 comments

Go to Labour’s Housing Map interactive and enter your address to get information on housing trends in your area.

Public invited to have say on homelessness

Written By: weka - Date published: 5:40 pm, July 14th, 2016 - 16 comments

The Māori Party have joined Labour and the Greens’ Cross-party Homelessness Inquiry, which is now asking for public input into the crisis including from people directly affected.

Democracy vs efficiency

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:15 am, July 14th, 2016 - 116 comments

Events in England really highlight the different processes of the two main parties. The Conservatives have completed their leadership transition, Labour’s contest has barely begun. Which model is best?

A tale of two housing policies – Steven Joyce writing National’s on Twitter

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:01 am, July 11th, 2016 - 106 comments

In some kind of panic over Labour’s housing policy package, Steven Joyce was writing Nat policy on Twitter yesterday. The promise to forego 2 years of HNZ dividend appears to have been made up on the fly.

Eagle vs Window Pane

Written By: Bill - Date published: 5:14 pm, July 10th, 2016 - 81 comments

So Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has been openly challenged.

Andrew Little’s speech: Backing the Kiwi dream of home ownership

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:47 pm, July 10th, 2016 - 176 comments

Text from Andrew Little’s speech today given in New Lynn to announce Labour’s latest housing policy.

John Roughan on Labour’s birthday

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:11 am, July 10th, 2016 - 60 comments

In the Herald John Roughan has offered some very positive comments about the Labour Party and what it stands for.

Labour announcement: Labour will require Housing Corporation to use dividends to build state houses

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:40 pm, July 9th, 2016 - 348 comments

Andrew Little has announced at the Labour Party’s 100 year special conference that Labour in Government will require Housing Corporation to instead of paying dividends to instead build houses.

What I would like from the Labour Party Conference

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, July 8th, 2016 - 120 comments

Some thoughts on what this weekend’s centennial Labour Party conference might achieve.

Helen Clark on Iraq

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:37 am, July 7th, 2016 - 41 comments

Thirteen years ago Helen Clark said despite intense pressure that the threshold for the use of force against Iraq had not been met. How right she was.