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Budget choices – ignoring domestic violence refuges
Written By: - Date published: 7:12 am, May 25th, 2016 - 7 comments
Green Party MP Jan Logie: “The Government has made it clear that more funding for refuges will not be in this week’s Budget.”
Apparently the housing crisis surge is a figment of our imagination
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, May 24th, 2016 - 51 comments
Nick Smith thinks that the recently developing housing crisis is a figment of our imagination.
Nick Smith 0.75% successful on Auckland housing!
Written By: - Date published: 7:18 am, May 24th, 2016 - 27 comments
One year later Nick Smith has delivered three quarters of 1% of his promised 430 ha of new Auckland housing land. The Brighter Future strikes again.
Latest Roy Morgan Poll
Written By: - Date published: 1:10 pm, May 23rd, 2016 - 105 comments
The Latest Roy Morgan poll result has been released with both National and Labour recording a significant improvement in support. But Winston is still the king maker …
Dodgy Niue deal back in the headlines
Written By: - Date published: 11:03 am, May 21st, 2016 - 200 comments
Good of the hotel to keep the Nats’ dodgy deal in the headlines. Andrew Little has called their bluff – of course.
All aboard the charter schools gravy train
Written By: - Date published: 7:34 am, May 21st, 2016 - 32 comments
Charter schools are pretty nice work if you can get it, no wonder groups are lining up. But there’s no evidence that they are good for education.
Petition to forgive emergency accommodation debt
Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, May 20th, 2016 - 18 comments
A petition: “As Minister of Social Development we call upon Minister Anne Tolley to urgently forgive all debts incurred by people who have been forced to stay in Motels as emergency accommodation….”
In the middle of a housing crisis Housing Corp is selling state houses
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, May 20th, 2016 - 49 comments
John Campbell is covering the homeless crisis with stories that highlight the personal tragedies that are occurring and the complete indifference of the Government to their plight.
Glib words and false hope aren’t going to cut it
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, May 19th, 2016 - 151 comments
This is a massive market and moral failure. The problem isn’t going to go away, it’s going to get worse, and the media are going to stay on the case. Time for National to borrow some more Labour / Green policy thinking.
A message for our anti-science government
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, May 18th, 2016 - 37 comments
Here’s some more science for the government to hate on: “Paris climate agreement cannot be met without emissions reduction target for agriculture”.
Government’s plan for housing crisis: tread water
Written By: - Date published: 9:42 am, May 18th, 2016 - 54 comments
The Government’s promised funding for 3,000 new beds for the homeless will not create any but will make sure that existing beds are kept available.
Homeless coverage goes international
Written By: - Date published: 2:52 pm, May 17th, 2016 - 97 comments
Coverage of Auckland’s homeless goes international. The working poor are now the working homeless.
We have to have poverty so we can have a tax cut
Written By: - Date published: 9:50 am, May 16th, 2016 - 163 comments
Despite record Crown debt and a crisis in the social sector National is getting ready to campaign in 2017 promising a tax cut.
The hidden homeless and the speculators
Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, May 16th, 2016 - 44 comments
Speculators keep buying houses while families live in garages and cars. This is a moral failure, a leadership failure, a market failure – it is every kind of failure.
Matthew Hooton and the Radio New Zealand post
Written By: - Date published: 9:29 am, May 15th, 2016 - 192 comments
Radio New Zealand recently published a piece penned by well known supporter of the right Matthew Hooton. What has happened to the concept of balance?
It must have been on Planet Key
Written By: - Date published: 8:50 pm, May 12th, 2016 - 59 comments
John Key thinks that he was thrown out of Parliament straight after Helen Clark a few years ago. The only problem is that Hansard thinks it was Don Brash.
National Party President selling out?
Written By: - Date published: 12:09 pm, May 12th, 2016 - 14 comments
The $25 million deal prompted considerable curiosity because it involved an off-market purchase of shares from Sanford’s second biggest shareholder, Avalon Investment Trust, which is run by the family of Peter Goodfellow.
John Key’s dead cat strategy
Written By: - Date published: 9:14 am, May 12th, 2016 - 52 comments
National is hoping to avoid a proper debate about issues raised by the Panama Papers by raising a series of idiotic diversions.
Key thrown out of Parliament
Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, May 11th, 2016 - 138 comments
John Key was given his marching order from the House today for repeatedly disobeying the speaker.
John Key chickens out of #panamapapers interview
Written By: - Date published: 8:31 am, May 9th, 2016 - 37 comments
This morning John Key refused to be interviewed on Radio New Zealand after learning that they intended to ask him questions about the Panama Papers. And some elements of the media are for some strange reason trying to say there is nothing to see because he personally has not been implicated.
Why was John Key singled out by Panama Papers hacker?
Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, May 7th, 2016 - 169 comments
Why, out of all the rotten, corrupt and unprincipled nations of the earth, did the Panama Papers hacker single out New Zealand’s John Key for special mention?
NRT: A Poor Choice
Written By: - Date published: 2:55 pm, May 6th, 2016 - 26 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the irony of sending Judith “Minister of Corruption” Collins to an an anti-corruption summit in London next week.
A week is a long time in politics
Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, May 5th, 2016 - 17 comments
Over the past week the Government has gone from “there is no problem with the Overseas Investment Office” to announcing an urgent review and a staffing boost to make sure that approvals of foreign purchases of land are being properly processed.
Unemployment jumps
Written By: - Date published: 7:38 am, May 5th, 2016 - 212 comments
After eight long years of National there are almost 40,000 more unemployed than when they came to power.
The unfortunate case of the Overseas Investment Office handling of the purchase of a Taranaki Farm
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, May 4th, 2016 - 39 comments
They say in politics that a news story is good for the opposition/bad for the Government if it hits the media cycle two days in a row. If it appears for a third or a fourth day then it is a crisis and urgent action is required. Louise Upston’s handling of the OIO is clearly a crisis.
National standards – a failed crusade
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, May 3rd, 2016 - 260 comments
National told us “New Zealand elected a Government that promised to introduce national standards so that every single child could read, write, and do maths when they left school.”
Compass serves up very little tax
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, May 3rd, 2016 - 66 comments
Radio New Zealand has reported that Compass, supplier of our substandard hospital food, appears to be taking steps to minimise the tax it pays locally.
Tax haven questions for National
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, May 2nd, 2016 - 36 comments
The weekend saw the pressure stay on National over our tax haven status, and the role Key might have played in protecting it.
Garner – government “missing in action”
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, May 1st, 2016 - 47 comments
Duncan Garner reckons the government is “missing in action” on housing. Similar pieces could be written about poverty, pollution, the rising debt, carbon emissions, the use of NZ as a tax haven, etc.
Labour’s strong week – National and land sales to foreigners
Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, April 30th, 2016 - 63 comments
Labour had a strong week this week with the disclosure of individuals behind a Mossack Fonseca related entity had criminal convictions for environmental damage forcing the OIO to review its original decision. Grant Robertson has correctly called for a full inquiry into the circumstances relating to the Government stopping a review of the Foreign Trust regime. And Phil Twyford has persuaded the OAG to rule that Housing New Zealand’s handling of parts of the housing sale process were sub standard.
Who needs water anyway
Written By: - Date published: 8:09 am, April 30th, 2016 - 46 comments
Or waterways are starting to stink as much as our murky tax havens.
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