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Assange is a hero: Jill Stein US Greens Presidential Candidate
Written By: - Date published: 9:54 am, August 24th, 2016 - 204 comments
Julian Assange is a true hero, says Jill Stein unequivocally, along with other whistleblowers who have had the audacity to challenge the status quo establishment.
Someone in Hamilton is racist as well as stupid
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, August 23rd, 2016 - 35 comments
Someone in Hamilton thinks that someone who wears a turban must be an ISIS supporting terrorist.
Syrian flash point just got flash pointier
Written By: - Date published: 1:38 pm, August 20th, 2016 - 102 comments
The major powers are ramping up the stakes in Syria in a big way.
Cluster f*&k on cluster bombs
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, August 19th, 2016 - 64 comments
The Government is refusing to accept there are legal issues with Kiwisaver providers investing in manufacturers of cluster bombs. But it is also not ruling out there may be a problem.
Left Militant
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, August 13th, 2016 - 140 comments
With wars breaking out at an alarming rate and democracy going backwards in much of the world what should a leftie foreign policy be?
Drumpf LIVE!
Written By: - Date published: 2:44 pm, July 22nd, 2016 - 31 comments
Establishment candidate and billionaire Donald J Trump is delivering his acceptance speech at the RNC. It’s chockfulla cliches, but hey …
YOOO ESSS AYYYY, YOOO ESSS AYYYY!
Why do they hate us?
Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, July 21st, 2016 - 73 comments
658 deaths due to terrorism in Europe and the Americas. 28,031 terrorism deaths in the Middle East and rest of the world.
God Botherer
Written By: - Date published: 10:27 am, July 17th, 2016 - 461 comments
God’s been a bit of a let down recently. Is it time for Him to retire?
Military coup underway in Turkey: Erdo-gone?
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, July 16th, 2016 - 135 comments
The attempted military coup appears to have been quickly and effectively put down by pro-Erdogan forces.
Helen Clark on Iraq
Written By: - 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.
Jeremy Corbyn apologises for Blair and Bush’s Iraq War
Written By: - Date published: 11:11 am, July 7th, 2016 - 42 comments
Jeremy Corbyn’s full response to the Chilcot response. Corbyn says that the Iraq war “was an act of military aggression launched on a false pretext” and that he apologises for it on behalf of Labour, who was in Government at the time.
The Chilcot report
Written By: - Date published: 7:03 am, July 7th, 2016 - 50 comments
The Chilcot report is out and it’s more damning of the decision to invade Iraq than expected.
Chilcot report – Blair’s bad week
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 am, July 5th, 2016 - 44 comments
Even before its release the Chilcot report is drawing attention to the hubristic warmongering that will forever stain Blair’s time in office.
Istanbul airport bombing
Written By: - Date published: 8:52 am, June 30th, 2016 - 62 comments
Condolences to all family and friends of the victims.
Chilcot, Corbyn and the UK Labour Party caucus.
Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, June 29th, 2016 - 62 comments
Three dots.
Updated
Mission Creep
Written By: - Date published: 7:06 pm, June 20th, 2016 - 50 comments
The military mission to Iraq is to be extended by another 18 months, much to nobody’s surprise. John Key has put the creep into the mission.
Double the quota
Written By: - Date published: 7:25 am, June 16th, 2016 - 3 comments
The Nats’ quota increase has now been described as “shameful and inhumane”, “stinks of a Government that doesn’t care”, “pathetic”, “mean-spirited and callous”, and more. Will they get the message?
Why American Foreign Policy still matters
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, June 14th, 2016 - 17 comments
So what should the next President of the United States focus on? Military power or economic domination or international institutions?
Refugee quota increase “shameful and inhumane”
Written By: - Date published: 3:12 pm, June 13th, 2016 - 22 comments
Reaction to Key’s pathetic increase in the refugee quota – “shameful and inhumane” (Amnesty International), “stinks of a Government that doesn’t care” (Double the Quota).
Funding priorities
Written By: - Date published: 1:10 pm, June 8th, 2016 - 68 comments
Why are we spending so much money on “defense” when there are so many real and urgent needs? It is hard to imagine that our “enemies” could possibly do us more damage than we are inflicting on ourselves.
What Possibility a Mid Winter Celebration?
Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, May 15th, 2016 - 8 comments
According to the Herald on Sunday, some people aren’t just sitting back waiting for the Chilcot report to be released before deciding what to do. Some people are getting geared up.
Little just visited NZ troops in Iraq
Written By: - Date published: 4:20 pm, April 28th, 2016 - 11 comments
“Opposition Leader Andrew Little has visited New Zealand troops at Camp Taji, Iraq. Mr Little also met with Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled Al-Obedih and senior military officials from the Coalition forces in Iraq. He now heads to Jordan to see the unfolding refugee crisis first hand.”
Anzac Day 2016
Written By: - Date published: 6:06 am, April 25th, 2016 - 62 comments
Today is Anzac Day, 101 years since ANZAC forces began the Gallipoli campaign.
Lahore bombing
Written By: - Date published: 11:31 am, March 28th, 2016 - 62 comments
Condolences to all those affected by the horrific bombing in Lahore.
Easter Monday Round Up
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 am, March 28th, 2016 - 101 comments
Three news items stand out from the long weekend. Actor Robert De Niro being inoculated against anti-vaxxers, ISIS being driven out of Palmyra and the free part of Ireland celebrating the centenary of the Easter Rising. All are milestones of sorts, markers of positive change.
Brussels attack
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, March 23rd, 2016 - 55 comments
Isis has claimed responsibility for the horrific attacks in Brussels that left 34 dead.
Putin’s “surprise” partial withdrawal from Syria
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, March 21st, 2016 - 86 comments
Russia is pulling out a large part of its forces in Syria. Is this a sign of Putin’s success – or a retreat that gives evidence to Putin and Russia’s weakness?
The “jihadi brides” lie
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, March 17th, 2016 - 71 comments
Remember the “jihadi brides” – part of last year’s beat-up about the risk of terrorism in NZ? Yesterday the central lie in the story was revealed.
Turkey is in trouble and the US is part of it
Written By: - Date published: 11:35 am, February 23rd, 2016 - 33 comments
The Middle East temperature is heating up and Turkey is finding itself in trouble on many fronts.
General Lord Dannatt: UK should work with Assad in Syria
Written By: - Date published: 9:32 am, February 21st, 2016 - 88 comments
Russia understands how to defeat ISIS and the UK should be helping not opposing them, says a former UK Army chief of staff.
The difference between decent folk and complete idiots
Written By: - Date published: 10:17 am, February 19th, 2016 - 34 comments
For a change I’m not going to have a rip at our local idiotic politicians. The most extreme case recently being the now infamous Dildo Baggins. Lets have a look offshore where they are often even worse…
- Farnham Street residents looking at each other down the barrel of a gun
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- Flogging a dead horse – anti-fluoridationists lose in court again2 hours ago
- Leadership roles in schools vacant due to work overload and stress28 July 2016 Schools are facing a chronic shortage of middle leaders with over 40 percent of teachers reporting not wanting to take up the roles due to high workload and inadequate compensation. “Curriculum leaders are an essential part of ...2 hours ago
- Speaker: The stark reality: New Zealand no longer has a functioning Mental Health ServiceLast week Auckland lost eight acute psychiatric beds. They were closed because staffing levels at the North Shore Unit, He Puna Waiora were so low that it was not possible to staff the unit safely. Funding shortfalls have meant it ...3 hours ago
- Go home, Roy Morgan Poll, you’re drunkGo home, Roy Morgan Poll, you're drunk. ...3 hours ago
- How to have more diverse councilsCouncils around the country should be representative of the communities that they work for. In order for this to happen, the voting systems that elects councillors and community board members needs to be improved. Introducing Single Transferable Voting (STV) to ...4 hours ago
- Kim Stanley Robinson has a lot to answer forVia Vox: Musk sketched out a vision of thousands of ships launching toward Mars, each carrying up to 100 or 200 people a flight. If we had, say, 10,000 flights, we could start building actual cities on Mars, although ...4 hours ago
- How palm oil companies like IOI have set Indonesia on fireThis morning, while most of the Netherlands was still asleep, my colleague Nilus and I - along with dozens of Greenpeace activists - slipped into Rotterdam’s port facilities. The temperature is just eight degrees celsius, my first time ever being ...4 hours ago
- The First Monday In May: high fashion through the looking glassThe First Monday In May sees cultural tensions swept under the rug in exchange for the kind of red carpet porn you can only dream of, writes Katie Parker. Photo: AFP In this age of the beautiful Instagram, ...4 hours ago
- The First Trump Clinton DebateI haven’t really paid much attention to Hilary Clinton – it’s hard to take your eyes off Trump. And, watching the debate last night I thought he was awful: worse than I expected, worse, I think, than any presidential candidate ...6 hours ago
- On the way to some Inner West bike routesEarlier this year Auckland Transport consulted on walking and cycling routes for the Inner West of Auckland with improving connections in the area included as part of the Government’s Urban Cycleway Programme. In August they released the results of the consultation which ...6 hours ago
- Why people won’t work on farmsFarmers are constantly complaining about they "can't find workers" anymore and how kiwi workers are "hopeless" (so they need to bring in foreign migrants to pay minimum wage to). Quite apart from the fact that nobody wants to live in ...22 hours ago
- “Vigil” for restoration of democracy and clean water in CanterburyOn a grey and chilly spring day, Canterbury artist and writer Sam Mahon, sculptor Alison Erickson and friends erected a beautiful sculpture “Vigil” of Catherine Sintenie outside Environment Canterbury Regional Council’s (ECan’s) lavish new offices in central Christchurch. Catherine Sintenie ...23 hours ago
- Fewer prisoners, better rehabilition – learning from abroadAs Parliament goes into recess for two weeks, I’m heading away first to UK, then to Northern Europe. The purpose of my trip, somewhat unusually, is to visit and learn more about prisons and prison systems. Our system of incarceration ...23 hours ago
- Our abusive policeHow abusive are the New Zealand Police? The Independent Police Conduct authority has just found that they engaged in false arrest, arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and denial of the rights to bail and legal advice on the West Coast:In the ...1 day ago
- Full and accurate?When your local authority makes a decision to spend millions of dollars of your money, you'd like to know that its been properly thought through. A budget, a business case, some considered advice on the pros and cons. But when ...1 day ago
- Pick up your shopping at your StationOften it’s the big things such as improved infrastructure and services that are needed to make public transport more viable but sometimes small enhancements can help in removing barriers for new users or just improve customer satisfaction with existing users. ...1 day ago
- Access: Help a kid have a heavy blanketIn an autism family you have to get good at adapting to your child. You find ways of speaking, acting and presenting ideas that recognise your child's experience of the world. Sometimes what works might seem unusual.Dr Temple Grandin's "squeeze ...1 day ago
- If America Refuses To End The Syrian Civil War, Then Russia Will Have To Win It.1 day ago
- What it’s like to be an ‘emotional paramedic’Julian Barnett has experienced all kinds of shifts at Youthline at all hours of the day, being the person who's there when no else is. Photo: 123RF Youthline says it's receiving so many calls that about 150 ...1 day ago
- Problem solved!Everyone relax. The head of Barfoot and Thompson has figured out how to solve the housing crisis. ...1 day ago
- ‘I’m a bit tired of the less is more, more is less point of view’New Zealand-born/Berlin-based producer Fis (Olly Peryman) discusses his unsettling new album, From Patterns To Details. Photo: Supplied This is part of a regular series called Verse Chorus Verse which sees local artists break down the stories behind their ...1 day ago
- Trump v ClintonThe first Presidential debate is only a few hours away. The stakes are huge, and each candidate will be desperate for a victory. So what does each candidate need to do to win? ...1 day ago
- Access: A different and interesting brainIf I was not in my wheelchair when I was a very young child, I would sometimes launch myself off whatever I was sitting on and end up in a heap on the ground. I used to think if I ...1 day ago
- Confronting academic Taylorists.Although the corporate media has not covered it, choosing instead to focus on the university’s fund-raising efforts, the academic and professional staff at the University of Auckland held a one hour strike last week to protest the lack of progress ...1 day ago
- Racist rich person: “I’m not racist”Racist star of the joke reality show Real Housewives of Auckland Julia Stone is demanding an apology from the Race Relations Commissioner after Dame Susan Devoy called her a racist last week following her use of a racist term to describe a ...1 day ago
- Zoning reform: Who participates in local elections? (4 of n)This is the fourth installment in an ongoing series on the politics and economics of zoning reform. In the previous post, I took a look at the demographic factors underpinning variations in submission rates on the Auckland Unitary Plan between ...1 day ago
- Gordon Campbell on the Key style of crisis managementFirst published on Werewolf Obviously, anyone paying much attention in recent weeks has been serially appalled/amazed/cynically amused by The Great Fish Dumping Fiasco, and the evidence of top Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) officials being caught in email flagrante saying ...2 days ago
- Burning more gas shows system is brokenHow is it that New Zealand is supposed to be playing our part in the global mission to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, yet Nova Energy is proposing to build more fossil fuel-burning power plants that ...2 days ago
- A welcome sightOne of the problems with our election laws is that who is funding a campaign is only disclosed after the fact, when it is obviously relevant information which could change voters' perceptions. But in the Palmerston North local body elections, ...2 days ago
- Notes on the Lionel Shriver controversy, or whatever it isShriver is a novelist (I haven’t read her latest book: people tell me it’s pretty good) who gave a speech at the Brisbane Writers Festival criticising identity politics. Someone walked out and wrote a withering blog post which went viral. ...2 days ago
- Australia’s backwards politiciansIn New Zealand, we resolved the question of same-sex marriage through an (overwhelmingly supportive) vote in Parliament. Meanwhile, in Australia, politicians are dragging their feet, with the ruling "Liberal" party (which isn't) demanding that progress can only be by referendum ...2 days ago
- Investigating Key’s dirt machineBack in 2014, John Key admitted that his staff were "briefing the bloggers" and using them as a backchannel to plant stories in the media. A number of people (including myself) were interested in this and lodged OIA requests for ...2 days ago
- Breathing new life into AoteaSome good news last week with the announcement that the Council’s former Civic Administration Building – which was given Category A heritage status under the Unitary Plan – will be restored. To make things better, it will be joined by a number ...2 days ago
- Take that, British establishment!The result of the UK Labour leadership election was announced on Sunday, and against expectations and despite a membership purge and universal hostility from the establishment media, Jeremy Corbyn won another landslide. Take that, British establishment! Corbyn didn't just win ...2 days ago
- The Mixtape: Tourettes aka Dominic HoeyDominic Hoey joins RNZ Music's Kirsten Johnstone to talk through a wordy selection of songs that have shaped his own work. The Auckland poet and rapper says he regrets the choice of his stage name - Tourettes - “every ...2 days ago
- Help Stop One of the Greatest Human-Environmental Tragedies of 2015 From Happening AgainLast year’s devastating fires in Indonesia were devastating for public health and the environment — and every one of them was a human-caused disaster.A study released last week by Harvard and Columbia reports that more than 100,000 people in Southeast Asia may ...2 days ago
- Yay capitalismVia Radio New Zealand: The maker of Nurofen has been charged by the Commerce Commission for misleading the public about its “specific pain range”. Eight of the charges alleged that the packaging and promotion of four different types of specific ...2 days ago
- Funding for Inclusive EducationLast Thursday the disability and education communities held a rally at Parliament calling for proper funding for inclusive education. It was the first time that these two groups came together and it included unions, specialist teachers, many families and a ...2 days ago
- UnityA message to British Labour Party members from Jeremy Corbyn's opponents ...2 days ago
- Syria UN Ambassador makes sense of the war in SyriaA brief interview with the Syrian Ambassador to the UN Dr Bashar al-Ja’afari. With the breakdown of the US-Russia brokered the cessation of hostilities in Syria we are now being bombarded with claims and counter claims of who was responsible. ...2 days ago
- Notes on the unidimensional spatial model of politicsVia Stuff: Labour leader Andrew Little has rejected a suggestion by his predecessor Helen Clark that parties on the left must “command the centre ground” to win elections, describing the suggestion as “a pretty hollow view”. Little says he instead ...2 days ago
- Driverless cars, sprawl and density2 days ago
- Gordon Campbell on Judith Collins’ self correctionFirst published on Werewolf Thousands of prisoners currently in prison may be entitled to an earlier release than expected – and compensation – because Corrections has incorrectly calculated their term of imprisonment. Thousands more who have been released (and who ...3 days ago
- Do we buy it? H&M’s fast fashion has a cost beyond the price tagThe fashion giant opens its first NZ story this week. Beyond the hype is a company with a chequered history. Photo: AFP There’s a particular hysteria that seems to descend on New Zealand when an international brand ...3 days ago
- Hekia Parata: I’m all ears – especially my earsNew Zealand has a very good education system. That’s beyond debate. Can we make it better? Yes, we can and we must. We must make it heaps more betterer. As a passionate New Zealander and as a mum, I want ...3 days ago
- From Good Guys To Fall Guys: The Spinoff And Generation Zero Fail To Endorse Mike Lee.3 days ago
- Punakaiki Fund 2016 AGM and September RoadshowWe held our Annual General Meeting for Punakaiki Fund on Thursday last week, with over 70 people attending and chaired by Mike Bennetts. The group saw presentations from founders or senior staff from Weirdly, Vibe Communications, Vend, Onceit, Timely, Mobi2Go, EverEdgeIP, Mindfull, ...3 days ago
- Sunday reading 25 September 2016.3 days ago
- 2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #39A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Sun Sep 18, 2016 After a decade, UN chief disappointed in many world leaders by Edith M Lederer, AP Big Story, ...4 days ago
- Brent Spar: The sea is not a dustbinIn August 2016, Prestel Books published Photos That Changed the World, including this image of the Greenpeace Brent Spar campaign, captured by David Sims on 16 June 1995.Greenpeace approaches Brent Spar, 1995, dodging a Shell water cannon. Photo by David Sims, ...4 days ago
- UN report highlights the challenges Indigenous People in Brazil face to protect their landFor Indigenous activists defending their traditional lands, Brazil is one of the most dangerous places in the world.Xavante indigenous people from Maraiãwatsede with traditional body paint for war. Due to conflicts over land ownership, this traditional painting is now a daily ...4 days ago
- Is it in the spirit of the Paris Agreement to ratify it with more emissions and more creative accoun...Is the New Zealand Government’s plan to ratify the Paris Agreement in 2016 consistent with a two degrees Celsius (2C) carbon budget? Since the December 2015 Paris Agreement, the British climate scientist Kevin Anderson has given a couple ...4 days ago
- Rethinking Trade Policy.The Government is ‘refreshing’ its international trade strategy. Refresh is a euphemism. It ought to overhaul it. Here are some guidelines; I begin with the overarching framework.read more ...5 days ago
- Quick – to the validating machine!On Wednesday evening I had the pleasure of attending the launch of Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Andrew Butler's book proposing a written constitution for New Zealand. It was held at Parliament, and may I say that a fine time was ...5 days ago
- How climate science deniers can accept so many ‘impossible things’ all at onceSometimes, climate science deniers will tell you that we can’t predict global temperatures in the future. Sometimes, they’ll say we’re heading for an ice age. Occasionally, contrarians will say that no single weather event can prove human-caused global warming. But ...5 days ago
- Cats and Dogs – time for a culture shiftCats and dogs are two of New Zealand’s most loved companion animals who are often integral parts of a family. My own dog, Kea, is a rescue from the SPCA and brings huge joy in my life. It’s well established ...5 days ago
- Campaign to protect Māori land from Public Works Act not overOn Wednesday night my Members’ Bill to stop the Public Works Act taking any more Māori land was voted down by the National Government. This is not the end of the campaign to raise awareness that the Public Works Act ...5 days ago
- “Cluttering the internet”In New Zealand the right of access to official information is well-established, and the introduction of FYI, an online service to make it easy, was uncontroversial. While a few agencies - notably the NZ Police - waste everyone's time by ...5 days ago
- Education Act changes give corporate welfare to the wealthyFunding private companies the same as public universities and polytechnics is neither equitable nor wise, says TEU national president Sandra Grey. The tertiary education minister has announced that he plans to amend the Education Act so that private tertiary enterprises ...5 days ago
- Good news on local governmentBack in June, National introduced the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill (No 2). The bill was yet another attack on local body democracy, allowing central government to effectively force mergers, force councils to divest services to council-controlled organisations, and ...5 days ago
- Speaker: Christchurch: We’re not “apathetic”, just busy rebuildingThis year’s local body elections are as weird as Christchurch life in general.Incumbent Mayor, Lianne Dalziel will romp back in with a few bites on the bum from challenger, John Minto. Four incumbent Councillors and a smattering of Community Board ...5 days ago
- Climate change: Its us or the fossil fuel industryWe always knew that dealing with climate change and preventing the oceans from drowning Bangladesh and the Netherlands and Tuvalu would mean having to wean our civilisation off fossil fuels in favour of cleaner energy sources. But a new analysis ...5 days ago
- We know where this is going to endYesterday we heard that the Supreme Court had ruled that Corrections had made a mistake in calculating the release dates of two prisoners, imprisoning them for months after they should have been released. That's bad, and the state needs to ...5 days ago
- Hard News: Friday Music: Getting FestiveSplore's first lineup announcement was made this week – and in keeping with the 2017 theme of "Family Reunion", it's headed by some notable returns. Dub Pistols are back after a cracking show this year, the Ragga Twins just can't ...5 days ago
- Weekly Reading: Transparent, David Simon and Jay Z on the War On DrugsOur weekly recap highlighting the best feature stories from around the internet. Photo: Amazon ‘Transparent’ Creator Jill Soloway on Caitlyn Jenner, Lena Dunham, and Mark Ruffalo’s Trans Casting Controversy – by Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast “Until ...5 days ago
- Live review: A$AP Ferg goes all out in his return to AucklandA$AP Ferg delivered a chaotic and dizzying set last night at The Powerstation, writes Hussein Moses. Photo: Luke McPake There’s a long-running joke that rap shows in New Zealand are notorious for falling through. While there’s still ...5 days ago
- September 16 AT Board MeetingThe monthly Auckland Transport Board meeting is on again next week so I’ve take a read through the main reports to pull out the bits that interest me. Closed Session Agenda Some of my thoughts about them in italics. Items ...5 days ago
- Treaty Rights vs Conservation Values5 days ago
- 45 years on: Remembering Atticaby The Spark Forty-five years ago, prisoners rebelled in Attica, a New York state prison. The rebellion lasted five days until it was savagely repressed, leaving 31 prisoners and nine ...6 days ago
- Open Letter to Trade Minister Todd McClayThe government has announced a ‘refresh’ of its trade policy. However, it looks more like a sticking plaster on the current failed policy when invasive surgery is required. Agreements like the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) become deeply concerning to many New ...6 days ago
- Up Front: I Never Been ta BorstalI've been working for an artist as their technician for a number of years now. I have welding skills and the ability to work across fabrication engineering and fine arts. My formal qualifications in both are a direct result of ...6 days ago
- UFO sighting over Auckland was just new Breakfast deskDid you see the Breakfast desk in the skies above Auckland last night? If so, send us your reports at news@tvnz.co.nz A widely reported UFO sighting over Auckland last night was just TVNZ’s new Breakfast desk, says the company’s CEO, ...6 days ago
- Hard News: Trump’s DummkopfsWhile the world holds its breath over a prodigious narrowing of the polls in the US Presidential election campaign, it's hard not to wonder sometimes about who these people are. His prospective voters, I mean. Who can merrily ignore his ...6 days ago
- More cracks appear in health fundingNews that the Waikato District Health Board could lose $2.7 million from its budget because it failed to make an elective target is downright disturbing, says Labour’s Acting Health spokesperson Dr David Clark. “This is a DHB that has tried ...4 hours ago
- Student debt cracks the billion markNew figures showing that student loan defaulters have now clocked over $1 billion in debt highlights National's failure to combat spiralling student loan debt, Labour's Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. "Threatening to arrest returning student loan borrowers at the ...1 day ago
- Foreign Students just a commodity to NationalNational MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi has confirmed that his party sees international students as nothing more than a commodity, says Labour's Immigration spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway. "Mr Bakshi’s appalling comparison of some students to 'faulty fridges' that should be returned to ...2 days ago
- Tolley’s spin on Education spend doesn’t add upNational’s spin about school funding won’t wash with parents who are paying more and more of the cost of their kids’ education every year, says Labour’s Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins. “All the spin in the world can’t hide the fact ...2 days ago
- National not facing up to export challenge“The latest export data from Statistics New Zealand paints a picture of an economy which is not paying its way in the world, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson. “Exports fell 9% - led by milk powder exports falling to ...2 days ago
- Correction over Talley’s statementLabour’s Workplace Relations spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway has been advised by AFFCO Ltd that AFFCO is not advertising for staff in the Manawatu through MSD as stated in a press statement released earlier today. “I have been advised by AFFCO that ...5 days ago
- Minister, cut your losses – withdraw this doomed BillLocal Government Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga’s request for a five month extension on the report back date for the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill (No 2) is an admission that the Bill is fundamentally flawed, says Labour’s Local Government Spokesperson ...5 days ago
- Coleman’s cuts create crisisMental health services in New Zealand are in a state of crisis with Youthline saying that calls for extreme depression doubled last year, says Labour’s Associate Health spokesperson Dr David Clark. “About 150 young Kiwis are missing out on help ...5 days ago
- Government helping Talley’s to break workersThe Ministry for Social Development appears to be assisting Talley’s-Affco replace experienced workers effectively locked out by the company, say Labour’s Social Development spokesperson Carmel Sepuloni and Workplace Relations spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway. “MSD is advertising for meat processing workers for ...5 days ago
- Electives lag due to $1.7 billion holeThe lag in hip and knee replacements is a direct consequence of the Government’s $1.7 billion underfunding of health, says Labour’s Associate Health spokesperson Dr David Clark. “A comprehensive study by the University of Otago says that the rate of ...5 days ago
- Speech to Master Builders’ Constructive conferenceToday’s all about being Constructive. And that is good because I believe there is a hunger out there for positive solutions. We must be able to believe there can be a better future. ...5 days ago
- Māori Party housing plan complete failureThe Māori Party’s housing plan to put more Māori into more homes has been a complete failure with fewer than five loans granted per year, says Labour’s Maori Development spokesperson Kelvin Davis. ...6 days ago
- Fund IRD better to go after tax avoidersNational’s Tax Working Group used the following graph (p30) in 2010 as part of their justification to cut the top tax rate. The big peaks around the top tax threshold were evidence of a suspiciously high number of taxpayers ...6 days ago
- Pasifika youth ignored by the GovernmentThe Adolescent Health Research Group’s new report on the wellbeing of young Pacific people shines a spotlight on the Government’s failure to deliver any “brighter future” for them, says Labour’s Pacific Island Affairs spokesperson Su’a William Sio. “Their research shows ...6 days ago
- Police in the provinces are dissatisfiedPolice in the cities of Gisborne, Napier and Hastings are a lot more unhappy than their big city cousins says Labour’s Police Spokesman Stuart Nash. “In fact the top four districts for enjoyable work within NZ Police are ...6 days ago
- Govt action needed after Wheeler holdsThe Reserve Bank Governor’s warning that “excessive house price inflation” is posing a risk to financial stability puts the pressure back on the Government to take action to address the housing crisis, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson. “Graeme Wheeler’s ...6 days ago
- Minister confirms – new ministry only about abuse...7 days ago
- Silver Ferns Farms decision a tragedyThe rubber stamping by the Overseas Investment Office of the Shanghai Maling buyout of Silver Fern Farms is a sorry day for the once proud New Zealand meat sector, says Labour’s spokesperson for Primary Industries, Damien O’Connor. “Generations of Kiwis ...7 days ago
- Benching Nick Smith first step to Kermadec solutionSide-lining Nick Smith must be the first step in sorting out the Government's Kermadec debacle, says Labour's Fisheries Spokesperson Rino Tirikatene. “Last week Labour called for Nick Smith to be removed from further negotiations with Te Ohu Kaimoana over the ...1 week ago
- Parents, schools, teachers oppose bulk fundingOverwhelming opposition to the National Government’s school bulk funding proposal is unsurprising and Hekia Parata should now unequivocally rule out proceeding with the idea, Labour’s Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. “Bulk funding could only lead to bigger class sizes or ...1 week ago
- MBIE gives up on enforcing the lawThe Government must provide labour inspectors with the resources they need to enforce basic employment law after reports that MBIE is only prosecuting the worst cases, says Labour’s Workplace Relations and Safety spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway. “Today’s news that MBIE ...1 week ago
- West Coast population declines amid bleak economic forecastDespite the country experiencing record population growth, the number of people living in the West Coast fell, highlighting struggles in the region from low commodity prices and a poor economic forecast, says Labour’s Economic Development spokesperson David Clark. “The latest ...1 week ago
- Recovery roadblocks cause for concernStrong pressure on mental health services, a flagging local economy and widespread issues with dodgy earthquake repairs are all causes for concern for people in Canterbury according to a new survey, says Labour’s Canterbury spokesperson Megan Woods. “Today the CDHB’s ...1 week ago
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- 35% of offshore speculators paying no taxOffshore investors are aggressively exploiting tax breaks to pay no tax on their rental properties according to IRD data released by Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford. “35% of offshore investors are paying no tax on their properties, and are pocketing ...2 weeks ago
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- Kermadec stoush shows Maori Party double-standardsThe Māori Party’s reaction to the trampled Treaty rights and the Government’s lack of consultation on the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary reeks of the same arrogant mismanagement of the unpopular Maori land reforms, Ikaroa-Rāwhiti MP Meka Whaitiri says. ...2 weeks ago
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- Industries most reliant on immigration worst offendersThe industries most reliant on immigration are the worst offenders when it comes to meeting their most basic employment obligations, says Labour’s Immigration spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway. “The industries that are most reliant on immigration are Hospitality, Administration, Agriculture, Forestry and ...2 weeks ago
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