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The right wing media’s infatuation with breeding
Written By: - Date published: 8:57 am, July 3rd, 2018 - 99 comments
Elements in the media clearly think that the payment of a modest amount to families with young babies will cause them to breed babies for a business.
Families Package and Auckland Regional Fuel tax kick in
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 am, July 2nd, 2018 - 48 comments
Labour’s Family Package and the Auckland Regional Fuel tax have both kicked in.
Doofus of the week – July 1, 2018
Written By: - Date published: 10:34 am, July 1st, 2018 - 15 comments
The latest in an occasional series where we celebrate the horrendously awful and bizarre behaviour of political figures both locally and overseas.
Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote
Written By: - Date published: 4:35 pm, June 28th, 2018 - 51 comments
Barry Soper in the Herald has fallen for National’s fake news concerning something said by Jacinda Ardern that was taken totally out of context.
Shock horror, National is telling fibs about Labour’s Industrial Relations policy
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 27th, 2018 - 102 comments
National has claimed that Jacinda Ardern ruled out national strikes during the last year’s election campaign. And has trimmed a video and taken comments out of context to justify its claim.
Flying Kites.
Written By: - Date published: 2:34 pm, June 26th, 2018 - 21 comments
If we can’t see the wood for the trees, shouldn’t we simply step back a bit and look again?
The right is in disarray
Written By: - Date published: 8:17 am, June 26th, 2018 - 163 comments
David Seymour bombs out of dancing with the stars and Simon Bridges refuses to apologise for calling Neve’s parents “pinko”. Just another week in the train wreck that is right wing politics in New Zealand.
Doofus of the week June 24, 2018
Written By: - Date published: 12:44 pm, June 24th, 2018 - 37 comments
The latest in an occasional series where we celebrate the horrendously awful and bizarre behaviour of political figures both locally and overseas.
How low can Simon Bridges go?
Written By: - Date published: 3:12 pm, June 22nd, 2018 - 90 comments
Simon Bridges was interviewed on Radio Hauraki and chose to suggest that Jacinda’s baby may vote National, cost too much money even though she was born in a pubic hospital and transported to hospital in a private vehicle, and should go to school in boy’s clothing.
Children should never be used as bargaining chips
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 am, June 21st, 2018 - 66 comments
Donald Trump has announced a “backdown” of the policy of separating children of refugees from their parents at the US border. Instead they will be imprisoned with their parents potentially for extended periods of time.
Givealittle legal fund set up for Renae Maihi for defence against Bob Jones’ claim
Written By: - Date published: 3:50 pm, June 19th, 2018 - 58 comments
Bob Jones has threatened Renae Maihi with a defamation lawsuit for seeking to have his knighthood taken off him. Laura O’Connell Rapira of Action Station has responded by starting a givealittle page to cover Renae’s legal costs.
Hosking poll shows overwhelming support for cycle lanes
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, June 19th, 2018 - 54 comments
Mike Hosking created an online poll which he must have thought would show opposition to cycleways but which has indicated that cycleways are very popular with Aucklanders.
Jessica Williams tweets about the stupidity of the Taxpayer’s Union
Written By: - Date published: 2:17 pm, June 18th, 2018 - 26 comments
Twitter in the right hands can be a very dangerous thing. As shown by Jessica Williams when she questioned the intellectual grunt of the taxpayers union in this series of tweets.
Nats indignant that Twyford is not fixing their housing crisis quickly enough
Written By: - Date published: 7:24 am, June 14th, 2018 - 95 comments
Judith Collins has criticised Phi Twyford because after eight months as Minister he has not fixed a crisis that took nine years to create.
Hoax video of Paul Goldsmith starts circulating on the Internet
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, June 8th, 2018 - 23 comments
Surely it cannot be real …
Labour does not want to let them all out
Written By: - Date published: 11:48 am, June 1st, 2018 - 170 comments
Andrew Little has proposed the repeal of the irrational three strikes law. But signs are that National will not engage in a reasoned debate about what the law should be.
National tags parody account in Northcote by election tweet
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, May 31st, 2018 - 6 comments
The difference between running a professional well organised campaign and a chaotic shambles can be slight.
Where the f*ck is Simon Bridges?
Written By: - Date published: 4:52 pm, May 30th, 2018 - 9 comments
An ongoing series where we try to work out what social media strategy Simon Bridges is following.
Where the f*ck is Simon Bridges?
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, May 29th, 2018 - 18 comments
An ongoing series.
Where the f*ck is Simon Bridges?
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, May 28th, 2018 - 9 comments
An ongoing series.
Doofus of the week – May 27, 2018
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 am, May 27th, 2018 - 28 comments
Lots of competition this week with Katie Hopkins preferring to be called a racist to being described as being on drugs, Judith Collins for fronting the most naff scandals in the last decade, and Simon Bridges for going on tour to strange places. But the real contest was between Paula Bennett and Gerry Brownlee …
#twyfordaccusations
Written By: - Date published: 12:53 pm, May 26th, 2018 - 52 comments
The Twitter hashtag #twyfordaccusations has been set up to allow people to speculate on what other nefarious allegations will be made against Phil Twyford by Judith Collins.
David Seymour blows the dog whistle, hard
Written By: - Date published: 8:56 am, May 22nd, 2018 - 34 comments
David Seymour has hit a new low by drumming up public opposition to a small social housing development planned by Housiung Corporation in Epsom by claiming some of the potential tenants may have mental health problems.
National is all over the place on the budget
Written By: - Date published: 8:21 am, May 21st, 2018 - 131 comments
National has made a meal of its first critique of Labour’s budget with a poor performance by Simon Bridges and with four claims about the budget that are clearly wrong but which National keep repeating.
Doofus of the week – May 20, 2018
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, May 20th, 2018 - 20 comments
Aaron Schlossberg, American Attorney and Trump Supporter, and someone who thinks people speaking Spanish to each other in a New York restaurant poses some sort of existential threat to the Union is this week’s doofus of the week.
Shouty Simon’s strange budget claim
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, May 19th, 2018 - 64 comments
National’s claims about Labour’s health spend suffer from the not insignificant problem that they do not make any sense when analysed.
An Existential Threat.
Written By: - Date published: 10:59 am, May 18th, 2018 - 30 comments
Is it a propaganda ploy these days to present the “utterly ridiculous” so that people, unable to engage or compute, turn away?
Industrial action is one way to increase wages
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, May 17th, 2018 - 20 comments
The National Party has recently been on the Government’s case for increasing strikes under their watch. But is that really a fair criticism, and does it jive well with the other things the Opposition has been claiming to value?
Sound news judgment?
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 am, May 15th, 2018 - 48 comments
The BBC thinks that depicting Jeremy Corbyn as a Russian stooge is sound news judgment.
Bridges believes in trickle down
Written By: - Date published: 10:58 am, May 14th, 2018 - 199 comments
Simon Bridges has committed the twin political sins of not only believing in trickle down but in publicly confirming his belief.
Doofus of the week May 12, 2018
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, May 12th, 2018 - 62 comments
There was intense competition this week. Paula Bennett with her attack on Jacinda’s Spotify playlist almost won but Northcote candidate Dan Bidois succeeded for managing to talk out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and only confusing his tongue.
- Help Me Hera: How do I navigate Auckland traffic without going insane?
The selfishness of this city’s drivers never fails to ruin my day. How do I get from A to B without wishing punishment and retribution on my fellow commuters? Want Hera’s help? Email your problem to helpme@thespinoff.co.nz Help Me Hera! Why do I see Auckland driver behaviour (not letting people merge, tailgating, etc) ...2 weeks ago - An ‘announcement of an announcement’ of two new boats
The wait for replacement Interislander ferries will drag on until 2029, as ministers reveal a plan to buy two smaller ships, reports Joel MacManus reports from parliament. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Crown company created to procure two new Interislander ferries by 2029 The long-awaited ...2 weeks ago
- National Iwi Chairs Forum Open Letter To King Charles
Signatories hope the letter will resonate with King Charles’s sense of justice and intervene to support a peaceful resolution to the damage this government is creating across communities. ...2 weeks ago - The world in 2024, in one sentence
From ‘testing’ to ‘tiring’, there’s a clear theme. As 2024 draws to a close, we asked our pantheon of politics watchers to describe the world this year in one sentence, or even a single word. Here’s what they came up with. Madeleine Chapman (editor, The Spinoff) Relentless. Eric Crampton (chief ...2 weeks ago
- The inside story of Auckland’s Korean culinary boom
From fried chicken and franchises to fusion and fine dining, Korean cuisine has taken over Tāmaki Makaurau, fuelled by the same ‘soft power’ that made K-pop go global and mukbang go viral. Jihee Junn charts the rise. In 1991, Il Mee on Auckland’s Queen Street became the first Korean ...2 weeks ago
- The finalised second Emissions Reduction Plan is out – what’s in it and what’s not?
New Zealand’s second Emissions Reduction Plan has just been finalised, with eight key policies and a ‘technology-led’ approach. Shanti Mathias takes a look. This is an updated version of a piece that was published in July, when the draft Emissions Reduction Plan was released OK, so… what’s an Emissions Reduction ...2 weeks ago
- Final Emissions Reduction Plan ‘Woefully Inadequate’ – WWF-New Zealand
WWF-New Zealand’s CEO, Dr Kayla Kingdon-Bebb, says the utter lack of ambition in the plan shows the Government is not serious about tackling emissions in line with New Zealand’s international commitments and the Prime Minister’s own ‘performance ...2 weeks ago
- Council Urges Government To Drop Treaty Principles Bill
The Council has particular concerns that the Bill would negatively impact the trust and collaboration underpinning its long-standing relationship with Ngāi Tahu. ...2 weeks ago
- Pure SEO Report Reveals Carbon Footprint Of New Zealand MPs
The critical analysis of MPs’ travel emissions reveals inefficiencies and discrepancies across all major parties. National leads in both expenses and emissions, with Labour close behind, reflecting the significant environmental impact of the dominant parties. ...2 weeks ago
- PSA Takes Legal Action To Stop Govt Cutting Working From Home Arrangements
The PSA has filed a claim with the Employment Relations Authority to stop the Government restricting flexible workplace practices, including the recent directive on working from home. "The PSA is firmly of the view that the Government is unable to do ...2 weeks ago
- A Historic Victory For Greyhounds In New Zealand
"This is a huge win for greyhounds across New Zealand and sets a powerful precedent on the global stage," says Danette Wereta, spokesperson for the Animal Justice Party. "There are so many amazing ways to have fun that don’t harm animals or put them ...3 weeks ago
- No More Complicity! Aotearoa National Rally For Palestine
For over a year, thousands of New Zealanders have joined the millions across the world in taking to the streets to call for an end to the genocide in Gaza. ...3 weeks ago
- PSA Demand End To Sexist Pay Discrimination
"Thousands more women employed or funded by government are moving through the pay equity process to address the undervaluation of their work," Davies said. ...3 weeks ago
- Stand Tū Māia Sues Children’s Ministry For Breach Of Contract
Chief Executive Dr Fiona Inkpen said the Trust had been forced to bring court action to hold the Children’s Ministry to its contractual obligations and prevent the Ministry from acting as though the contract has been cancelled. ...3 weeks ago
- PSA Calls On Minister To Reverse Cold-hearted Cuts To Children’s Charity Funding
Children’s charity Stand Tū Māia is today taking urgent legal action against Oranga Tamariki for unilaterally reneging on a three-year $21 million contract after only six months. ...3 weeks ago
- Explosive LNG Report Casts More Doubt On Govt’s Plan To Build Fossil Gas Import Terminal
The ‘ Explosive Truths’ report commissioned by Greenpeace delves into the history of LNG accidents, highlighting a lack of transparency, underestimated risks to human safety, and failing safety protocols. ...3 weeks ago
- ACT & Te Pāti Māori Gain In Final Taxpayers-Union Curia Poll For 2024; Centre-right Commands C...
The poll, conducted 1 to 3 December, has both National and Labour down 4.6 points from last month, National at 34.2% and Labour at 26.9%. ...3 weeks ago
- Not Too Late To Fix Controversial Fast-track Approvals Bill
The Bill retains several significant flaws that collectively mean that if enacted in its present form would make it the worst environmental legislation in our history, with scope for bad projects with significant adverse impacts to get approved. ...3 weeks ago
- Anti-Corruption Day 2024: Monday 9 December 2024 Is International Anti-Corruption Day
This day is a celebration of the progress in the fight against corruption since it was initiated; and a reminder that there is still a lot of work to be done. ...3 weeks ago
- Welcome To Summer School For Ministers Toy Assembly (Climate Change 101 Curriculum Delivery)
Parents for Climate Aotearoa are holding the Toy Assembly to welcome the Prime Minister and cabinet Ministers to the Climate Change 101 Summer School to highlight that they also need to get the basics right and do them brilliantly. ...3 weeks ago
- Raft Of Politicians Expected At Save Our Mill Meeting In Tokoroa
The deputy PM is among those attending a community meeting about the mill, with calls for worker relief heading into Christmas. ...3 weeks ago
- Extinction Rebellion Will Cease To Exist If Greens Policy Is Enacted
‘The Green Party Emission reduction Plan – He Ara Anamata, will obviate the need to take ongoing actions’, says Caril Cowan, spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion Tāmakai Makauraru. ...3 weeks ago
- Are We Counting On The Right Evidence?
What counts as evidence when important decisions are made about social well-being in Aotearoa is the focus of a new study at the University of Auckland. ...3 weeks ago
- Greenpeace Welcomes Action On Dairy Emissions In Greens’ Alternative Emissions Reduction Plan
"At a time when the Luxon-led government is caving to polluting industry lobbyists and undermining climate action across all fronts, it is refreshing to see an alternative pathway," says Greenpeace spokesperson Amanda Larsson. ...3 weeks ago
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