NRA: a international terrorist organisation

Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:13 am, September 6th, 2019 - 22 comments
Categories: australian politics, blogs, Dirty Politics, International, Politics, Simon Bridges, us politics - Tags: cameron slater, gun control, massacre, nra, san francisco

I was joyful to see that the San Francisco board of supervisors has declared what I have long thought; that the National Rifle Association in America has for many years been acting as a terrorist organisation.

It follows a shooting attack against the Gilroy Garlic Festival, south of the city, which killed three in July.

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The resolution says the US is “plagued by an epidemic of gun violence” and accuses the NRA of using “its considerable wealth and organisation strength to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence”.

“All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give them ready access to assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, thanks, in large part, to the National Rifle Association’s influence,” the resolution says.

In my opinion, that is a very accurate portrayal of the activities of the NRA. In the case of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, the mass murderer was a 19 year old male who appears to have been sucking up on pseudo-nazi skinhead ideology.

The gunman opened fire with a WASR-10 semi-automatic rifle,^[13] shooting 39 rounds.^[14] He had a 75-round drum magazine and five 40-round magazines.^[14] The gunman bought the gun in Fallon, Nevada, on July 9, three weeks before the festival.^[1] The possession and sale of the weapon are banned in California, but legal in Nevada.^[13]

That was a serious level of firepower. Fortunately this shooter was ill-disciplined sprayer of rounds and, unlike our own coward shooter in Christchurch, this younger idiot chose a harder target than people praying in a mosque. Three armed police officers responded with pistols severely wounding him.

However the proximate cause of this largely thwarted disaster was a direct consequence of the decades of hard work by the NRA in a well funded and concerted effort by their activist executive and their gun-making firm funders to try to reduce controls on assault weapons – state by state. The idea of selling a young idiot an expensive semiautomatic weapon with high capacity magazines with no other reasonable purpose other than killing large numbers of people is exactly what they are promoting.

This is not only in the US. In Australia, far right politicians and the NRAA and other gun idolaters have been wooing the NRA for funding and expertise in how to perpetuate similar legal atrocities across the Tasman. Which probably partly explains the creepy unwinding of the controlling gun laws in Australia by political targeting of states in the decades since the Port Arthur massacre.

Similar activities haven’t been as directly observed here. Mostly it appears that the beleaguered NRA has been using our own efforts to clean up gun control largely as a fund raising exercise. However the way that some of the stranger parts of the local gun lobby like COLFO (Council of Licensed Firearm Owners) has been framing their language and targeting their political lobbying is highly reminiscent of the NRA. As the Gun Control NZ pointed out in a press release last month after National party leader Simon Bridges appeared to swallow COLFO assertions wholesale about the costs of a gun registration system.

“COLFO appear willing to say almost anything to get attention. They have been exaggerating their membership numbers for years and have failed to provide any evidence as to how they obtain knowledge of the majority of their members’ views. The evidence from Police and media suggests that participating gun owners are happy with the buyback.” says Hera Cook.

I’d add that COLFO appear to be out of tune with actual licensed firearm owners. A recent survey showed little support for their position. While it showed considerable agreement between gun-owners and non-gun-owners in what the government has been doing with gun control. Gun trusted

In addition to asking about trust in groups such as police, medical practitioners and corporations, we asked people how much trust they had in gun owners and the pro-gun lobby to do the right thing. This scale ranged from 1 (no trust at all) to 5 (complete trust). Unsurprisingly, gun owners reported a higher average trust level in other gun owners: 3.4 compared with 2.7 among those who did not guns – a moderate to large effect size.

When looking at trust in the pro-gun lobby, gun owners still reported higher levels of trust than non-gun owners – 2.7 vs 2.2. But the overall levels of trust were much lower than in gun owners generally. Gun owners tended to rate the gun lobby similar in trust as corporations and politicians. Those who don’t own guns rated the gun lobby as only more trustworthy than bloggers or online commentators.

Ouch, I can understand that last sentence after having dealt with it for a while. The loudest voices in NZ online communities for the last decade has been the sleazy criminal behaviour that proponents like Cameron Slater exhibited. After listening to that putrid and unlawful bile, the rest of the online community gets tarred with the disgusting ichor that overflows from the Whaleoil garbage and its many imitators. That we have been legally dealing with the blight on our communities has been less obvious.

Perhaps licensed gun-owners should start to deal with the blight of such unrepresentative mouthpieces trying to claim their name in a similar way.

But for the rest of us, I’d suggest what we should push for is to treat the NRA as just being another terrorist organisation. We have the appropriate legislation for this

The designation of terrorist entities is one measure New Zealand takes to contribute to the international campaign against terrorism. The Terrorism Suppression Act 2002(link is external) (TSA) provides for a list of terrorist entities to be established and maintained in New Zealand. Police are responsible for coordinating requests to the Prime Minister for designation as a terrorist entity.

A designation under New Zealand legislation freezes the assets of terrorist entities and makes it a criminal offence to participate in or support the activities of the designated terrorist entity. This includes in particular dealing with the property of the designated terrorist entity or making property or financial services available to the entity. Other support for terrorist activities such as fundraising and recruiting or harbouring terrorists is a criminal offence whether a group is designated or not

The current lists include many organisations who promulgate and support violence worldwide. I think that the NZ government should support the San Francisco initiative and be pressed to add the National Rifle Association of America to the same list. This will ensure that if they start to interfere in our internal politics in the manner that they have been doing in sates of the USA and Australia, that they can be monitored and controlled.

22 comments on “NRA: a international terrorist organisation ”

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Leaps 1

6 September 2019 at 9:23 am

Yes, well done indeed San Francisco – standing up to the NRA bully boys is a brave thing to do and it needs to be done.
Andre 2

6 September 2019 at 9:29 am

Yep, the NRA has been so successful spreading terror that schools are now being designed specifically to slow down active shooters.

https://slate.com/business/2019/08/school-shootings-design-architecture-sandy-hook-columbine.html
ianmac 3

6 September 2019 at 9:45 am

NRA declared a Terrorist Organisation. Yep. That fits. But what action could be taken?
- lprent 3.1
  
  6 September 2019 at 10:02 am
  
  Amongst other things, putting them on the list of terrorist organizations means that the intelligence agencies will be required to look at their local contacts.
- Rae 3.2
  
  6 September 2019 at 3:37 pm
  
  The acceptance by the main population of that title, and just let it permeate.
A 4

6 September 2019 at 9:50 am

I heard from an old timer that the NRA used to be really good (this is around 1970s? I can't recall). They taught safety to their members and caution. That was then…
- lprent 4.1
  
  6 September 2019 at 10:05 am
  
  They were a gun safety organisation for most of their history from the 19th century up until recent decades. But from the 1970s onwards they seem to have been focused into being a sales lobby for the gun manufacturers.
  - New view 4.1.1
    
    6 September 2019 at 8:20 pm
    
    From the 1998 Charlton Heston headed the NRA for five years. I believe he was instrumental in raising the public profile and increasing the power and popularity of the NRA. They have huge influence over successive governments but more than that the abuse of that power for the promotion of their ideals and financial gain is almost treasonable. Labelling them terrorists is fine by me and I’m a firearm owner. Too many Americans have had an insane love affair with firearms (mainly for self defence!!) for too long. If the SanFrancesco board want to draw attention to this long-standing blight on American society with this accusation. Well done and good luck.
  - A 4.1.2
    
    6 September 2019 at 8:47 pm
    
    Ahh. That makes sense. I don't think the label inappropriate.
Wayne 5

6 September 2019 at 9:57 am

Lprent

Although I understand the sentiment, you know perfectly well there is zero prospect of designating the NRA as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Supression Act. The Board of San Francisco’s action is intended to be symbolic. The Board knows they can’t go beyond that. But a designation under the TSA has real effects.

I also think asking the government to do so (if you are actually serious about that, though I don’t think you are) just creates problems for government. They have to say “no” for reasons you know well.
- lprent 5.1
  
  6 September 2019 at 10:07 am
  
  Why not?
  
  They make about as much sense as about half of the organizations on those lists because they are far more international, far more political in their intrusions in the domestic policies of other countries, and probably responsible for more deaths.
  - Wayne 5.1.1
    
    6 September 2019 at 12:28 pm
    
    Iprent
    
    You know that the NZ government won’t do this. The reasons are obvious. Whether you like it or not, the NRA is a legal organisation in the US. Any action by NZ to declare the NRA would be seen as a hostile action by the US government.
    
    As you know perfectly well the NZ government doesn’t indulge in “virtue signalling” stunts.
    
    This item is your own virtue signalling. Fine for an individual or for civil society, but not for government.
    
    Anyway you know all this, and I should not get distracted by it,
    - Stuart Munro. 5.1.1.1
      
      6 September 2019 at 7:32 pm
      
      The NRA is no more relevant to or welcome in NZ than NAMBLA was. We banned them, and we can ban the NRA too.
      - New view 5.1.1.1.1
        
        6 September 2019 at 8:49 pm
        
        It’s not what they are but what they’ve achieved that’s the issue. Any wealthy cooperation that’s big enough to throw the incumbent government a bone (a lot of bones) is going to test that governments resolve not to be bribed. Sounds easy. Heard of Google or Facebook.
        
        Stuart Munro. 5.1.1.1.1.1
        
        6 September 2019 at 9:40 pm
        
        You seem to be confused – perhaps you could rephrase that.
- Anne 5.2
  
  6 September 2019 at 11:31 am
  
  If it looks like a terrorist organisation, sounds like a terrorist organisation and acts like a terrorist organisation then it is a terrorist organisation.
Barfly 6

6 September 2019 at 11:26 am

"a international" – "an international" – sorry for being picky
Paul G. Buchanan 7

6 September 2019 at 2:01 pm

Although I understand and appreciate the sentiment herein expressed, on this one I beg to slightly differ. Non-state terrorist organisations are those that commit acts of politically motivated violence, not those that enable them (I will leave aside the notion of state terrorism, to include state terrorism in and outside of war. Here I refer to non-state politically-motivated violence, often irregular in nature, against non-military targets). Tying the two together is a slippery slope on which the valid methodological practice of conceptual transfer–where concepts borne of different contexts are transferred to new ones without loss of definition–is replaced by conceptual stretching, where concepts are distorted in order to be applied to contexts that they were not designed to address.

This has already happened with the sloppy application of the term "terrorist" to all sort of hate crimes that have nothing to do with terrorism (which requires targets, subjects and objects that are distinct from each other). And let's remember: while some of the mass murders committed in the US have been ideologically motivated (e.g. El Paso, Pittsburgh), most others (Las Vegas, Sandy Hook etc.) are not. That makes it even more problematic to hang the terrorist label on the NRA because much of the violence that it supposedly is tied to is non-ideological in nature.

That is the flaw in the suggestion to apply the term "terrorist" to organisations that, as evil as they may be, do not themselves engage in acts of politically motivated non-state violence. This is akin to designating a Communist Party as a terrorist organisation just because some Marxist-Leninist rebels that share ideological beliefs with it engage in guerrilla warfare using terrorism as a tactic. Or, stretching the notion a bit, designating the Green Party as a terrorist organisation because some animal rights and environmental activists engage in violent direct action against people and property (something that many on the right hand side of the political ledger just might welcome). Again, it is about the slippery slope between those who advocate certain views and those who commit violent acts based upon shared belief in some of those views. I prefer to not go down that path.

Unfortunately, in the spate of anti-terrorist legislation passed world-wide after 9/11, organisations that fund, front or in a variety of ways enable terrorist groups to operate have been designed as terrorist entities themselves. That was a mistake. They should have been treated as accessories or conspirators but not as the equivalent of perpetrators of ideologically motivated violence. The distinction may appear to be a fine one but is necessary because it recognises, much as in the case of protective offensive speech versus hate speech, the distinction between words and types of deeds. That does not exonerate them of complicity or even culpability in the event of a terrorist attack if links between enablers and perpetrators are proven, but it does differentiate between the degree of complicity or culpability involved. And since terrorism is defined by the act of violence rather than the cause being espoused, this allows us to focus on physical acts rather than motivation when designating individuals and groups as terrorists.

Now, if the NRA can be shown to have direct (institutional) links to white supremacists and/or engages in the incitement of violence against others, then it can be charged with being part of a criminal conspiracy or, if the links to actual acts of terrorism are established, as part of a terrorist entity. But until that is the case I would prefer to leave the designation of terrorists to perpetrators rather than enablers.

I agree that the SF designation is more symbolic than substantive. On the other hand, I also like the idea that localities can use a symbolic designation to prevent organisations like the NRA from operating within their jurisdictions. It is just another form of the "local standards" argument that allows local governments to enforce housing codes, public order laws, noise control etc. But from my somewhat pedantic perspective it would have been preferable if SF had designated the NRA as a "crime enabling entity" which, however less emotive and regardless of the NRA's legal status, gets closer to what it actual does in the public sphere.

In any event, as Wayne has mentioned, it is unlikely that this particular Labour-led government is going to follow SF's lead even if the NRA has interfered in the gun legislation debate after March 15. Besides the semantic issues I have raised and the practical difficulties involved, it has displayed a degree of timidity when it comes to confronting powerful overseas actors on contentious matters. With the NRA holding one of the main strings controlling the actions of the empty shell in the Oval Office, it is simply a case of not wanting to buy a fight with a a larger partner.
- New view 7.1
  
  6 September 2019 at 10:08 pm
  
  PGB. I won’t take up quite so much space as you. It’s subjective. I don’t like them a lot so calling them terrorists is ok for me. It’s how I see them. I couldn’t give a monkeys fuck what the correct definition is. They have no moral values they’re manipulative and powerful. I’ll call them what I like and I’m ok with you having a more educated definition of terrorism.
Chris T 8

6 September 2019 at 3:36 pm

The NRA aren't terrorists.

They are just a massive lobby group.

Always wondered why they had so much power given they only have a self proclaimed (so probably exaggerated) 5 million members, out of a country of 327 million.

Assuming it is to do with how much money they give to the Reps and Dems, as both bow to their whim.
- Incognito 8.1
  
  6 September 2019 at 7:23 pm
  
  So much power in the hands of so few. How could this happen in a society that values equity and is governed democratically?
vto 9

6 September 2019 at 7:36 pm

Mr Prent you should lobby the government to do this. It would be surely less difficult than both Kirk giving the finger to the French atomic testing and Lange giving the finger to the US nuclear ships.

Unfortunately Adern ain't in the same league though.

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David FarrierBy David Farrier
5 days ago

Doubts about Robertson’s good news day
The trading banks yesterday concluded that though GDP figures released yesterday show the economy is not in recession, it may well soon be. Nevertheless, the fact that GDP has gone up 0.8 per cent in the latest quarter and that StatsNZ revised the previous quarter’s figure to show a ...
PolitikBy Richard Harman
5 days ago

The Votes That Media Dare Not Speak Its Name
.Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work..A recent political opinion poll (20 September) on TV1 presented what could only be called bleak news for the Left Bloc:National: 37%, down two points equating to 46 seatsLabour: 27%, down one point (34 ...
Frankly SpeakingBy Frank Macskasy
5 days ago

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #38 2023
Open access notables At our roots Skeptical Science is about cognition of the results of climate science research in the minds of the entire human population. Ideally we'd be perfectly communicating understanding of Earth's climate, and perfectly understood. We can only approximate that, but hopefully converging closer to perfection. With ...
Skeptical Science
5 days ago

Failing To Hold Back The Flood: The Edgy Politics of the Twenty-First Century.
Coming Over The Top: Rory Stewart's memoir, Politics On The Edge, lays bare the dangerous inadequacies of the Western World's current political model.VERY FEW NEW ZEALANDERS will have heard of Rory Stewart. Those with a keen eye for the absurdities of politics may recognise the name as that of the ...
Bowalley Road
5 days ago

Pick this Chris, you get the Greens. Pick the other one you get Seymour.
A bit of a narrative has been building that these two guys, your Chris and your Chris, are not so very different.It's true to a point. The bread and butter timidity has been dispiriting to watch, if you have a progressive disposition. It does leave the two of them relatively ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
5 days ago

RICHARD PREBBLE: Who won the Leaders’ debate?
Richard Prebble writes – There was a knockout winner of the Leaders’ debate. Check for yourself. Recall how they looked. If you cannot remember or missed it, the debate is on TVNZ’s website. Turn off the sound and ask: “Which one looks like a Prime Minister?” ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
5 days ago

Thursday's Chorus: GDP up an extra 33c per person per week
Just like National when it was in government, Labour bought nominal GDP growth and momentum by pulling as hard as it could on the population lever. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTLDR: Stats NZ has reported better-than-expected GDP growth in the June quarter, thanks largely to record-high net migration of ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
5 days ago

Climate Change: National’s policy for failure
We already know that the National Party are de facto climate change deniers who want to reverse virtually all climate change policy. So how do they think they'll cut emissions? According to their climate change spokesperson, polluting corporations will do it out of the goodness of their hearts: The ...
No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
5 days ago

NZ’s big dairy company reports a massive profit jump – but the lobby group Greenpeace doesn’...
Dairy farmers, or at least those who are also shareholders in the Fonterra dairy co-operative would have received a second dose of good news this week, when the dairy giant reported a massive profit jump. This followed news of a better sale at the Fonterra GDT auction this week. Net ...
Point of OrderBy tutere44
5 days ago

Big issues out of the mouths of giant babes
A longtime New Zealand broadcaster and commentator is taking a theatrical turn in advance of the General Election to draw different kinds of attention to the issues New Zealanders will be voting on in October.In a pre-election event that invites audiences to consider New Zealand politics through a theatrical lens ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
6 days ago

That new hospital which Labour is promising – is it the same one which Sepuloni mentioned in May ...
Our busy ministers – desperately busy trying to whip up voters’ support as their poll support sags, among other things – have added just one item of news to the government’s official website over the past 24 hours or so. It’s the news that the Government has accepted the Environment ...
Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
6 days ago

Queenstown was keeping rates low
On Monday, we learned that Queenstown, one of the country's largest tourist destinations, suddenly had to boil its water to avoid cryptosporidium. Now, it looks like it will last for months. Why? The usual reason: they'd been keeping rates low: Queenstown could face months of having to boil water ...
No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
6 days ago

Gordon Campbell on chaotic coalitions, drinking water and useless debates
This week’s ONE News-Verian poll had the National/ACT coalition teetering on the edge of being able to govern alone while – just as precariously – having its legislative agenda vulnerable to a potential veto by Winston Peters in the House. So close, but so perilous. During the run-up to election ...
Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
6 days ago

An ill wind
National Leader Christopher Luxon likes to bag the way the Resource Management Act worked. Though it has been repealed and replaced by the Labour government, Luxon plans, before Christmas, to repeal the new legislation and, for the foreseeable future, revert to the old Act that he has consistently criticised. ...
PolitikBy Richard Harman
6 days ago

Further Adventures with Martin the Chess Bot
Earlier this month, I had a bit of fun with Chess.com’s worst AI, the one and only Martin Bot: https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2023/09/02/nine-queens-against-martin-chess-hilarity/ Well, in the past few days, I’ve achieved a trio of notable personal firsts against Martin. I thought I would record them in the morbid interests of ...
A Phuulish FellowBy strda221
6 days ago

The Inflation Reduction Act is reducing U.S. reliance on China
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. Over a year later, its climate provisions remain a hot topic. The law’s proponents argue that it’s created a boom in domestic manufacturing jobs within the United States while paving ...
Skeptical Science
6 days ago

Relief for dairy farmers – and the NZ economy – as prices rise again at latest GDT auction
New Zealand’s dairy farmers will be relieved that prices rose for the second time this month at the latest Fonterra GDT auction. The encouraging feature of the sale was the activity of Chinese buyers who drove up prices. As a result, the GDT price index rose 4.6%, helped by a 4.6% lift ...
Point of OrderBy tutere44
6 days ago

Democracy McNuggets
Here is a review of last night’s Democracy McNuggets debate, delivered in the style of last night's Democracy McNuggets debate.McNugget #1This format was very advantageous for the man who speaks in lazy SLAM DUNK.To hark back a few editions: The lazy SLAM DUNK doesn’t bother to make its case. It simply offers ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
6 days ago

A Forced Pause.
Unfortunately I will need to take a bit of time off from this blog. After months of misdiagnoses and a change in GPs, my precious son is in Starship Hospital about to have major surgery. He already has had one … Continue reading → ...
KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
6 days ago

Better-than-expected BoP figures give Robertson something to bray about – but revisions helped, a...
Buzz from the Beehive Source: ANZ The latest balance of payments statistics – providing a broad measure of what the country earns and spends internationally – gave grist to Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s publicity mill today. The current account deficit narrowed to 7.5 per cent of ...
Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
6 days ago

Dirty dairy corrupts our democracy
The planning process under the RMA is meant to be one of public consultation: the council prepares a plan, and we all get to have a say on it. But it turns out that in Otago, the dirty dairying industry has been trying to rewrite the new land and water ...
No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
6 days ago

Calling The Big Dog’s Bluff.
Can This Be Possible? For nearly thirty years the pundits have been telling the minor parties that they must be good little puppies and let the big dogs decide. The parties with a plurality of the votes cast must be allowed to govern – even if that means ignoring the ...
Bowalley Road
6 days ago

Climate Change: “Offsets” aren’t
Since we began worrying about climate change, the market fundamentalists have pushed the idea of "offsets" rather than actual emissions reductions. There's just one atmosphere after all, so in theory it doesn't matter where the reductions are made, so you can just pay someone on the other side of the ...
No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
7 days ago

GRAHAM ADAMS: Is Ardern a liability for Labour?
Ministers are pretending the former PM has simply vanished. Graham Adams writes – Late last week, Tova O’Brien asked Grant Robertson on her Stuff podcast if Jacinda Ardern should be “rolled out” to “galvanise the base” to help save Labour’s faltering campaign. Robertson laughed. ”I’m sure for ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
7 days ago

Wednesday’s Chorus: Biggest insurer starts targeted climate retreat
Owners of property deemed at risk from climate change related floods and rising sea levels will increasingly find their access to affordable insurance shut off. Some may become ‘prisoners’ in their uninsurable and therefore unbankable homes. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: IAG, which insures more than 60% of homes ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
7 days ago

Chris vs Chris.
So it’s kind of obligatory to start with the boxing analogy…In the red corner, you’ll know him from his red hair and his red heart, the champion of achievable socialism, weighing in when given the opportunity - it’s Chris.And fighting out of the blue corner, you’ll know him from his ...
Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
7 days ago

Hipkins – Luxon stalemate
Last night’s TVOne debate may well reinforce the idea that the minor parties will determine this election. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and National leader Christopher Luxon ended their one-and-a-half hours with Luxon probably slightly ahead, though a stalemate might be a more realistic assessment. But there was nothing of ...
PolitikBy Richard Harman
7 days ago

At a glance – Do volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans?
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
Skeptical Science
1 week ago

This little bald fellow, is he your god?
Aliens landed in the seaside village this morning. Just like every other cruise tourist who gets carted over here by Fullers and dumped at the bus stop, they had that bewildered look that said, How do you have fun here?I took them by their goey rubbery arms and said, Come ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
1 week ago

Bryce Edwards: A Very hollow election
The 2023 general election campaign must be the most hollow in living memory. There really isn’t much that is positive or attractive about the electoral options on offer. This is an election without inspiration. An angry mood for change There is a definite cyncism amongst the public right now – ...
Democracy ProjectBy bryce.edwards
1 week ago

NZ’s external deficit close to record levels – so why aren’t the politicians talking about i...
As New Zealand confronts a near-record current account deficit few, if any, of the country’s politicians are talking about it or the underlying problems. NZ’s external deficit is expected to continue narrowing, but at a slower pace than forecast a few months ago. Data out this week is expected ...
Point of OrderBy tutere44
1 week ago

Delirious Hatred: The Dystopic Tendencies of Twenty-First Century Progressivism.
Fighting Mad: That which Twenty-First Century progressives most feared, Twenty-First Century progressivism has become. No one old enough to have experienced the emancipatory power of true progressivism: in the factory or on the streets; in the university quad or in the “old school” newsroom; could possibly vote for the parties ...
Bowalley Road
1 week ago

Green Party will end child poverty
The Green Party will double the Best Start payment and make it available for every child under three years of age - and it will be paid for with a fair tax system. ...
Greens
15 hours ago

Release: Labour pledges billion-dollar medicines boost
Labour will fund more medicines for more New Zealanders by investing over $1 billion of new funding into Pharmac if re-elected, Chris Hipkins announced today. ...
Labour Blog
17 hours ago

National's welfare policy is cruel
The National Party’s job seeker policy announced today is heartless. ...
Greens
17 hours ago

Release: Labour releases New Zealand’s first climate manifesto
New Zealand faces a stark choice this election – vote for Labour to continue to confront the climate emergency with eyes wide open or bury your head in the sand alongside Christopher Luxon. ...
Labour Blog
2 days ago

Green voice crucial for climate action
The Green Party is today welcoming Labour’s climate manifesto, but is clear that much more will need to be done to tackle the climate crisis. ...
Greens
2 days ago

Speech: Chris Hipkins – Wellington Rally, 24 September
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Labour Blog
2 days ago

People need a government that will build many more homes
Labour’s plan to build more homes is a welcome step forward, but it lacks ambition. ...
Greens
2 days ago

Release: Supercharging public housing
Labour is supercharging its plan to solve the public housing shortfall created by National, promising another 6,000 homes on top of what has already been committed says Labour Housing spokesperson Dr Megan Woods. ...
Labour Blog
3 days ago

Release: New Super Visa for migrants’ parents and rights for Dawn Raid victims
Labour will back migrant working families by introducing a 10-year multiple-entry parents’ and grandparents’ Super Visa, and make good on the Dawn Raids apology by providing a one-off visa for overstayers who have been in the country ten years or more, Labour’s Immigration Spokesperson Andrew Little says. ...
Labour Blog
3 days ago

Only the Greens will deliver a fair amnesty for overstayers
The Green Party is today welcoming Labour coming to the table to ensure an amnesty for overstayers, but only the Greens will ensure immigration settings actually reflect the reality of people who have been failed by our immigration system. ...
Greens
4 days ago

Climate future of communities on the line this election
Green Party co leader James Shaw attended a South Dunedin Future street meeting today to discuss local responses to climate change. ...
Greens
4 days ago

Green Party calls for stronger action by Auckland Council to protect urban trees and native forest
The Green Party is calling on Auckland Council to do more to protect urban trees and housing developer Aedifice Property Group to restore and replant the native forest it cleared, and protect all the remaining trees on Ngahere Road in Pukekohe after a significant number of native trees were cut ...
Greens
5 days ago

Release: Ram Raids drop to two-year low
Latest Police data shows monthly ram raids have hit a two-year low, laying waste to Christopher Luxon’s false claim that there are two ram raids a day says Labour’s Police Spokesperson Ginny Andersen. ...
Labour Blog
5 days ago

Every party needs to step up on school lunches
Labour has finally said it would continue free school lunches - and the Green Party is calling on every party to step up. ...
Greens
5 days ago

Release: School lunches on the line this election
Free and healthy school lunches will be here to stay if Labour is re-elected, guaranteeing food for our kids who need it most and significant cost saving for parents. ...
Labour Blog
5 days ago

Release: Labour commits to a new hospital for the people of Hawke’s Bay
The next Labour Government will build a new hospital in Hawke’s Bay, Labour leader Chris Hipkins and Labour health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall announced. ...
Labour Blog
6 days ago

Govt changes fall short of what’s needed for migrant protection
The Green Party will keep up the fight to support exploited migrant workers, including pushing to end single employer visas, after the government picked up Green recommendations to improve immigration settings. ...
Greens
7 days ago

Clean Power Payment the smartest way forward to reduce emissions and bills
Green Party co leader James Shaw visited a home in Auckland today that has been upgraded with a wide range of energy improvements, similar to those that would be supported through the Green Party’s Clean Power Payment. ...
Greens
7 days ago

Foreign Minister's Action – A Contempt For “Caretaker Government” Convention
The Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s presence in New York today at the United Nations General Assembly is a contempt of New Zealand’s “caretaker government” convention. Despite the long-standing caretaker convention, Minister Mahuta is today at the UN to sign a highly contentious “Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement”, delivering a ...
NZ First Press Release
7 days ago

Back To Black Responsibly
The Pre-Election Fiscal Update Changes Everything Within an hour of this speech there is going to be a debate between the political parties that the media, under MMP, still think are the only parties that matter in this campaign. Both of those parties are riddled with inexperience, as evidenced by ...
NZ First Press Release
7 days ago

Stop the cuts before they start – Labour launches new TV ad
National and ACT's tax plans don't add up, and that means deep cuts to the public services New Zealanders rely on, says Labour Campaign Chair Megan Woods. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Free school lunches paid for with a wealth tax
The Green Party will expand free school lunches and pay for it with a fair tax system. ...
Greens
1 week ago

The Pacific Reset & the Blue Continent
Thank you for your invitation to speak with you this afternoon about New Zealand Foreign Policy. After offering one or two general thoughts about the nature of foreign policy, the focus today will be the Pacific Reset and why its goals remain even more important today as when they were ...
NZ First Press Release
1 week ago

Release: Huge hole in National’s climate budget
National’s plan to cut policies that are reducing New Zealand’s climate emissions will result in a huge gap in the country’s emissions budgets and could see Kiwis paying significantly more at the petrol pump as a result of Christopher Luxon hiking the ETS price. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Greens would push Labour much further on solar power
Labour’s plan to support rooftop solar is a step in the right direction, but falls short of what could be achieved through the Green Party’s Clean Power Payment. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Release: Doubling rooftop solar to reduce bills & emissions
Labour will double the number of houses with rooftop solar in New Zealand, lowering household power bills, reducing emissions and boosting renewable electricity generation. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Release: Labour will advance women’s health, careers, and legal protections
A re-elected Labour Government will continue its proud tradition of advancing women’s health, employment, and legal rights Spokesperson for Women Jan Tinetti said. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Green Party confirms plan for five weeks annual leave
Speaking at the E Tū Election Launch in Auckland today, Green Party co leader Marama Davidson outlined the Green Party’s manifesto commitment to ensure everyone has five weeks of annual leave. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Release: Labour to keep lifting worker wages and rights
A re-elected Labour Government will protect hard-fought workers’ rights and keep the momentum on wage growth to lift incomes for all New Zealanders, leader Chris Hipkins announced today. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

New Zealand First Party List 2023
New Zealand First is proud to announce the Party List for the upcoming 2023 General Election. We have had a great number of applicants and potential candidates moving through the selection process over the past few months. Our final selection for our list proves we have a wide range ...
NZ First Press Release
2 weeks ago

A National/ACT Government would make life miserable for those already worst off
Only a party vote for the Greens will end poverty. ACT’S welfare policy announced today is as cruel as it gets. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Release: Willis’ resignation call means only one thing – $2 billion more cuts
Massive cuts to public service are on the cards as Nicola Willis has promised to resign if she doesn’t deliver tax cuts but is refusing to make the same commitment if she doesn’t raise enough income from her bungled foreign buyer’s tax. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Release: A faster justice system focused on victims
Labour will help more victims of crime achieve justice faster by introducing a formal class-action regime, modernising consent laws and increasing the use of technology to speed up hearings. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Release: Gaping hole confirmed in National’s tax plan
A whopping $2.1 billion dollar hole has been confirmed in National’s tax scheme in a new report released today. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Labour pledges biggest ever increase to training Doctors
Labour will deliver the largest ever increase to the number of doctors trained each year, adding an additional 335 doctors a year to our health workforce from 2027, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins has announced. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

PREFU Exposes Political Promises
Today’s PREFU has some alarming statistics showing an economy deteriorating and the cost of unaffordable government expenditure, mainly in the 2022 and 2023 budgets. Despite this alarming economic and fiscal picture, political parties are making unaffordable promises, talking about a surplus by 2027, or four years time, all of which ...
NZ First Press Release
2 weeks ago

State of books makes clear case for wealth tax
The case for a wealth tax has never been stronger. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Release: Labour pledges free cervical screening
If re-elected Labour will make cervical screening services free to all women and people with a cervix aged 25 – 69 years, delivering better cancer care for over 1.4 million New Zealanders. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Chris Hipkins sets out 9 key pledges to New Zealand
Labour Leader Chris Hipkins has set out nine key pledges to be achieved in his first full term as Prime Minister. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Labour's Plan 2023
Labour is running a positive, forward-looking campaign that's focused on fixing the cost of living, keeping people and communities safe and investing in education, health and housing. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Te Whānau a Apanui and the Crown initial Deed of Settlement I Kua waitohua e Te Whānau a Apanui me...
Māori: Kua waitohua e Te Whānau a Apanui me te Karauna te Whakaaetanga Whakataunga Kua waitohua e Te Whānau a Apanui me te Karauna i tētahi Whakaaetanga Whakataunga hei whakamihi i ō rātou tāhuhu kerēme Tiriti o Waitangi. E tekau mā rua ngā hapū o roto mai o Te Whānau ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
14 hours ago

Plan for 3,000 more public homes by 2025 – regions set to benefit
Regions around the country will get significant boosts of public housing in the next two years, as outlined in the latest public housing plan update, released by the Housing Minister, Dr Megan Woods. “We’re delivering the most public homes each year since the Nash government of the 1950s with one ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
3 days ago

Immigration settings updates
Judicial warrant process for out-of-hours compliance visits 2023/24 Recognised Seasonal Employer cap increased by 500 Additional roles for Construction and Infrastructure Sector Agreement More roles added to Green List Three-month extension for onshore Recovery Visa holders The Government has confirmed a number of updates to immigration settings as part of ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
4 days ago

Poroporoaki: Tā Patrick (Patu) Wahanga Hohepa
Tangi ngunguru ana ngā tai ki te wahapū o Hokianga Whakapau Karakia. Tārehu ana ngā pae maunga ki Te Puna o te Ao Marama. Korihi tangi ana ngā manu, kua hinga he kauri nui ki te Wao Nui o Tāne. He Toa. He Pou. He Ahorangi. E papaki tū ana ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
4 days ago

Renewable energy fund to support community resilience
40 solar energy systems on community buildings in regions affected by Cyclone Gabrielle and other severe weather events Virtual capability-building hub to support community organisations get projects off the ground Boost for community-level renewable energy projects across the country At least 40 community buildings used to support the emergency response ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
4 days ago

COVID-19 funding returned to Government
The lifting of COVID-19 isolation and mask mandates in August has resulted in a return of almost $50m in savings and recovered contingencies, Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall announced today. Following the revocation of mandates and isolation, specialised COVID-19 telehealth and alternative isolation accommodation are among the operational elements ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
5 days ago

Appointment of District Court Judge
Susie Houghton of Auckland has been appointed as a new District Court Judge, to serve on the Family Court, Attorney-General David Parker said today. Judge Houghton has acted as a lawyer for child for more than 20 years. She has acted on matters relating to the Hague Convention, an international ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
5 days ago

Government invests further in Central Hawke’s Bay resilience
The Government has today confirmed $2.5 million to fund a replace and upgrade a stopbank to protect the Waipawa Drinking Water Treatment Plant. “As a result of Cyclone Gabrielle, the original stopbank protecting the Waipawa Drinking Water Treatment Plant was destroyed. The plant was operational within 6 weeks of the ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
6 days ago

Govt boost for Hawke’s Bay cyclone waste clean-up
Another $2.1 million to boost capacity to deal with waste left in Cyclone Gabrielle’s wake. Funds for Hastings District Council, Phoenix Contracting and Hog Fuel NZ to increase local waste-processing infrastructure. The Government is beefing up Hawke’s Bay’s Cyclone Gabrielle clean-up capacity with more support dealing with the massive amount ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
6 days ago

Taupō Supercars revs up with Government support
The future of Supercars events in New Zealand has been secured with new Government support. The Government is getting engines started through the Major Events Fund, a special fund to support high profile events in New Zealand that provide long-term economic, social and cultural benefits. “The Repco Supercars Championship is ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
6 days ago

There is no recession in NZ, economy grows nearly 1 percent in June quarter
The economy has turned a corner with confirmation today New Zealand never was in recession and stronger than expected growth in the June quarter, Finance Minister Grant Robertson said. “The New Zealand economy is doing better than expected,” Grant Robertson said. “It’s continuing to grow, with the latest figures showing ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
6 days ago

Highest legal protection for New Zealand’s largest freshwater springs
The Government has accepted the Environment Court’s recommendation to give special legal protection to New Zealand’s largest freshwater springs, Te Waikoropupū Springs (also known as Pupū Springs), Environment Minister David Parker announced today. “Te Waikoropupū Springs, near Takaka in Golden Bay, have the second clearest water in New Zealand after ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
6 days ago

More support for victims of migrant exploitation
Temporary package of funding for accommodation and essential living support for victims of migrant exploitation Exploited migrant workers able to apply for a further Migrant Exploitation Protection Visa (MEPV), giving people more time to find a job Free job search assistance to get people back into work Use of 90-day ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
7 days ago

Strong export boost as NZ economy turns corner
An export boost is supporting New Zealand’s economy to grow, adding to signs that the economy has turned a corner and is on a stronger footing as we rebuild from Cyclone Gabrielle and lock in the benefits of multiple new trade deals, Finance Minister Grant Robertson says. “The economy is ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
7 days ago

Funding approved for flood resilience work in Te Karaka
The Government has approved $15 million to raise about 200 homes at risk of future flooding. More than half of this is expected to be spent in the Tairāwhiti settlement of Te Karaka, lifting about 100 homes there. “Te Karaka was badly hit during Cyclone Gabrielle when the Waipāoa River ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
7 days ago

Further business support for cyclone-affected regions
The Government is helping businesses recover from Cyclone Gabrielle and attract more people back into their regions. “Cyclone Gabrielle has caused considerable damage across North Island regions with impacts continuing to be felt by businesses and communities,” Economic Development Minister Barbara Edmonds said. “Building on our earlier business support, this ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
7 days ago

New maintenance facility at Burnham Military Camp underway
Defence Minister Andrew Little has turned the first sod to start construction of a new Maintenance Support Facility (MSF) at Burnham Military Camp today. “This new state-of-art facility replaces Second World War-era buildings and will enable our Defence Force to better maintain and repair equipment,” Andrew Little said. “This Government ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
7 days ago

Foreign Minister to attend United Nations General Assembly
Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta will represent New Zealand at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York this week, before visiting Washington DC for further Pacific focussed meetings. Nanaia Mahuta will be in New York from Wednesday 20 September, and will participate in UNGA leaders ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 week ago

Midwives’ pay equity offer reached
Around 1,700 Te Whatu Ora employed midwives and maternity care assistants will soon vote on a proposed pay equity settlement agreed by Te Whatu Ora, the Midwifery Employee Representation and Advisory Service (MERAS) and New Zealand Nurses Association (NZNO), Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall announced today. “Addressing historical pay ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 weeks ago

New Zealand provides support to Morocco
Aotearoa New Zealand will provide humanitarian support to those affected by last week’s earthquake in Morocco, Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta announced today. “We are making a contribution of $1 million to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to help meet humanitarian needs,” Nanaia Mahuta said. ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 weeks ago

Government invests in West Coast’s roading resilience
The Government is investing over $22 million across 18 projects to improve the resilience of roads in the West Coast that have been affected by recent extreme weather, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins confirmed today. A dedicated Transport Resilience Fund has been established for early preventative works to protect the state ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 weeks ago

Government invests in Greymouth’s future
The Government has today confirmed a $2 million grant towards the regeneration of Greymouth’s CBD with construction of a new two-level commercial and public facility. “It will include a visitor facility centred around a new library. Additionally, it will include retail outlets on the ground floor, and both outdoor and ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 weeks ago

Nanaia Mahuta to attend PIF Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta will attend the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, in Suva, Fiji alongside New Zealand’s regional counterparts. “Aotearoa New Zealand is deeply committed to working with our pacific whanau to strengthen our cooperation, and share ways to combat the challenges facing the Blue Pacific Continent,” ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 weeks ago

PREFU shows no recession, growing economy, more jobs and wages ahead of inflation
Economy to grow 2.6 percent on average over forecast period Treasury not forecasting a recession Inflation to return to the 1-3 percent target band next year Wages set to grow 4.8 percent a year over forecast period Unemployment to peak below the long-term average Fiscal Rules met - Net debt ...
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New cancer centre opens in Christchurch
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall proudly opened the Canterbury Cancer Centre in Christchurch today. The new facility is the first of its kind and was built with $6.5 million of funding from the Government’s Infrastructure Reference Group scheme for shovel-ready projects allocated in 2020. ...
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Government invests in top of the south’s roading resilience
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New Zealanders continue to support the revitalisation of te reo as we celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Mā...
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New Wildlife Act to better protect native species
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Further safety initiatives for Auckland City Centre
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Govt confirms additional support for Enabling Good Lives
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New Zealand gets AAA credit rating from S&P
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Appointment of Environment Court Judge
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NZ’s biggest ever emissions reduction project hits milestone
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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood in debate
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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood in debate
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Bid to protect Pacific indigenous knowledge in the global digital space
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Dan Andrews leaves office as a titan of Victorian politics – who drove conservatives to distractio...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Strangio, Professor of Politics, Monash University Daniel Andrews, who has announced he will step down after nearly nine years as premier, leaves office as a titan of Victorian politics. An activist premier, a gifted political communicator and a hard man of ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
6 hours ago

Newsletter: September 26 2023 – Items of interest and importance today
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. NZ Politics Daily: 26 September 2023 NEWSHUB-REID RESEARCH POLL Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: NZ First in powerful position as ACT support crumbles, ...
Evening ReportBy Bryce Edwards
6 hours ago

Election 2023 updates: All the latest developments on 26 September
Tonight's political debate focused on the top priorities for Māori voters - check out RNZ's updates from the kaupapa Māori debate. ...
Radio NZ – political
6 hours ago

Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Economic Growth per Capita: New Zealand in Context
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Chart by Keith Rankin. Chart by Keith Rankin. The principal measure of economic success in the mainstream narrative is economic growth. The pointy heads associated with that narrative will correctly point out that its economic growth per capita that matters, and which serves as a crude ...
Evening ReportBy Keith Rankin
6 hours ago

Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Vested interests shaping National Party policies
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political scientist, Dr Bryce Edwards. As the National Party gets closer to government, lobbyists and business interests will be lining up for influence and to get policies adopted. It’s therefore in the public interest to have much more scrutiny and transparency about potential conflicts of ...
Evening ReportBy Bryce Edwards
6 hours ago

National says traffic light policy for beneficiaries driven by 'love'
National says its new benefit sanctions policy would target the kind of person who shows up to a job interview in their pyjamas, not struggling young families. ...
Radio NZ – political
8 hours ago

NEW POLL: Voters torn in Auckland Central electorate
A new Taxpayers’ Union – Curia poll in the Auckland Central Electorate has voters undecided between Greens incumbent Chlöe Swarbrick (polling at 26% of voters) and National candidate Mahesh Muralidhar (polling at 24%) - a statistical tie when accounting ...
Scoop politics
8 hours ago

The Albanese government blew its shot at setting a historic new unemployment target
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the federal government’s employment white paper is “ambitious”. I’m not convinced. A clearly ambitious statement would have specified a target for unemployment, ideally one ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
9 hours ago

National's Muralidhar nipping at Swarbrick's heels in Auckland central electorate poll
With a large undecided vote it's looking like a very close race between the pair, Labour's Oscar Sims trailing a distant 12 points behind Muralidhar. ...
Radio NZ – political
9 hours ago

New poll puts Auckland Central on a knife edge
Chlöe Swarbrick has a battle on her hands to retain Auckland Central, with a new poll by Curia for the Taxpayers’ Union putting the Green MP just a couple of percentage points ahead of National candidate Mahesh Muralidhar. Swarbrick, whose victory in the high-profile seat was one of the most ...
The SpinoffBy Toby Manhire
9 hours ago

Dan Andrews quits after nine years as premier of Victoria
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Dan Andrews has announced he is quitting, after nine years as premier and three election wins. Andrews’ surprise announcement came early Tuesday afternoon. He said his resignation would take effect at 5pm Wednesday. ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
11 hours ago

Is it time for Australia to introduce a national skills passport?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University Antoni Shkraba/Pexels As part of the new employment white paper, the federal government has announced it is thinking seriously about a national skills passport. It has set aside A$9.1 ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
11 hours ago

NZ election 2023: Green Party pledges to double Best Start payment
RNZ News New Zealand’s Green Party says it will double the Best Start payment from $69 a week to $140 — and it will also make it available for all children under three years. Greens co-leader Marama Davidson announced the policy today, saying it is part of a “fully costed ...
Evening ReportBy Asia Pacific Report
11 hours ago

Money for everything – and your kids for free
The Green Party is breaking its centrepiece income guarantee policy into constituent parts and re-announcing them to build on momentum in the polls. Tim Murphy reports. Parents of every child aged up to 3 will be eligible for double-sized Best Start payments under a Greens policy aimed at lifting cost ...
Newsroom
11 hours ago

Labour MPs save themselves in face of bad polling
Chris Hipkins is in damage control as his MPs get nervous about their own political futures in the face of bad polling. Left untreated, it could be the start of a caucus splintering, writes political editor Jo Moir The morning had started out well for Chris Hipkins. He'd announced Labour's ...
Newsroom
11 hours ago

The many reviews of the public service miss one vital problem – the language used to communicate i...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christiane Gerblinger, Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University Shutterstock Australia’s public service is no stranger to reform. In the past nine years, it has undergone three significant reviews of its policy advising ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
11 hours ago

Public Vote With Their Conscience – And Their Stomachs
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Scoop politics
12 hours ago

West Coast-Tasman must stop regional decline, election candidates say
Putting a stop to regional decline was a prevailing theme delivered by West Coast-Tasman's hopeful candidates during an election debate. ...
Radio NZ – political
13 hours ago

Muscle, wood, coal, oil: what earlier energy transitions tell us about renewables
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Conor, ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University Child coal miners, Pennsylvania, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hines/Wikimedia Commons In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82% of the world’s energy. In 2000, it was 87%. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
13 hours ago

Muscle, wood, coal, oil: what earlier energy transitions tell us about renewables
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Conor, ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University Child coal miners, Pennsylvania, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hines/Wikimedia Commons In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82% of the world’s energy. In 2000, it was 87%. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
13 hours ago

Groans and giggles at the TVNZ Young Voters’ Debate
Six hopeful candidates from parties likely to make it into New Zealand’s next parliament debated the issues at front of mind for young voters. Charlotte Muru-Lanning reports from the studio. “Feel free to laugh and to clap,” John Campbell told the audience jovially just before the debate kicked off. There ...
The SpinoffBy Charlotte Muru-Lanning
13 hours ago

From stock markets to brain scans, new research harmonises hundreds of scientific methods to underst...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Fulcher, Senior Lecturer, School of Physics, University of Sydney Shutterstock Complexity is all around us, from the daily fluctuations of financial markets to the intricate web of neurons in our brains. Understanding how the different components of these ...
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13 hours ago

From stock markets to brain scans, new research harmonises hundreds of scientific methods to underst...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Fulcher, Senior Lecturer, School of Physics, University of Sydney Shutterstock Complexity is all around us, from the daily fluctuations of financial markets to the intricate web of neurons in our brains. Understanding how the different components of these ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
13 hours ago

What do people think about when they go to sleep?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melinda Jackson, Associate Professor at Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University Shutterstock You’re lying in bed, trying to fall asleep but the racing thoughts won’t stop. Instead, your brain is busy making detailed ...
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13 hours ago

Election 2023: The health policies in two minutes
The health system has had a hell of a time in the past few years. So what do the different parties say they’ll do about it? Policy.nz has the thorough version, and we’ve got the whistle-stop tour. See more from our policy in two minutes series here. In 2022 the current ...
The SpinoffBy Claire Mabey
13 hours ago

First-time eligible voters weigh in on the pressure to decide
More young people are turning out to vote each election, but their numbers still lag far behind the country's older voters. ...
Radio NZ – political
13 hours ago

Luxon’s red light for beneficiaries
National says its new sanction system for people on Jobseeker support will break a cycle of dependence – but its political opponents are calling it heartless National Party leader Christopher Luxon appeared in a West Auckland strawberry field this morning to announce stricter obligations for people on Jobseeker support. Phil ...
Newsroom
14 hours ago

Election 2023: NZ First announces time limit for Jobseeker beneficiaries
New Zealand First has proposed a two-year cap on the length of time a person can receive the Jobseeker benefit over their lifetime. ...
Radio NZ – political
14 hours ago

No gavels, no hearsay and lots of drinking: a law expert ranks legal dramas by their accuracy
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dale Mitchell, Lecturer in Law, University of the Sunshine Coast IMDB From Elle Woods in Legally Blonde to Jennifer Walters in She-Hulk, Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird to Denny Crane in Boston Legal, our popular culture is often ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
14 hours ago

They sent kisses: An essay from Henrietta Bollinger’s Articulations
An excerpt from Henrietta Bollinger’s debut collection of essays, recently published by Tender Press. (A note that the moments where some words are represented by XXXXX are intentional.) I am still learning how to consciously talk about seeing sex workers. I want to find a way to share it and ...
The SpinoffBy Henrietta Bollinger
14 hours ago

“The Deficit Diaries: Six Years Of Red” Unveils Labour’s Fiscal Miscalculations
Wellington ( Tuesday, 26 September 2023 ) - As we approach the 2023 election, New Zealanders must learn from the overly optimistic projections presented by Labour before the 2017 election. New Zealand cannot afford a repeat of this fiscal recklessness. ...
Scoop politics
14 hours ago

Election 2023: ACT promises to scrap several climate change policies
ACT Party leader David Seymour says his party will stop what he says is wasteful climate change spending. ...
Radio NZ – political
14 hours ago

Election 2023: ACT promises to scrap several climate change policies
ACT Party leader David Seymour says his party will stop what he says is wasteful climate change spending. ...
Radio NZ – political
14 hours ago

What’s going to happen to the famous Mangaweka plane?
About a year ago I read a Stuff story on the future of the iconic Mangaweka plane and how it was “up in the air”. I tried to find out more, but couldn’t get anywhere with the story. The DC-3 sat on the side of State Highway One in the ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
15 hours ago

Greens would double best start, make it universal for young children
The Greens say their new policy of doubling the Best Start payment and extending it for every child under three years would end child poverty in New Zealand. “Parents all over the country are being forced to cut back on food to pay the bills,” said co-leader Marama Davidson. “Our ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
15 hours ago

Green Party pledges to double Best Start payment, extend to all under three
The Green Party says it will double the Best Start payment from $69 a week to $140; it will also make it available for all children under three years. ...
Radio NZ – political
15 hours ago

Caution RNZ – Your Bilious Bias Is Showing
When RNZ first began it was with the intention that there would be an honest and sole broadcaster in which the people of New Zealand could have confidence in what they were hearing was neutral, factual, and professional. Sadly, that worthy reputation ...
Scoop politics
16 hours ago

NZFirst Policy Announcement: Capped Time-period For Job Seeker Beneficiaries
New Zealand First today is announcing a policy on adjusting the rules and restrictions around access to the Job Seeker Benefit. New Zealand First’s policy is to introduce a capped time-period for any person to access the Job Seeker Benefit during their ...
Scoop politics
16 hours ago

Labour’s Pharmac Policy A Placebo
Labour has just announced a policy to increase Pharmac funding by $1billion over four years to fund additional medicines. With the current Pharmac budget of $1.2billion per year and needing a further $213million, by Minister Verrall’s own admission, ...
Scoop politics
16 hours ago

The clear message across seven pollsters
The rationale for Christopher Luxon’s late ruling-in of New Zealand First is clear enough at a glance across the latest numbers from the seven polling companies that are surveying in the leadup to the election. In six of the seven, Winston Peters’ party is at or above the 5% threshold, ...
The SpinoffBy Toby Manhire
16 hours ago

7 years, billions of kilometres, a handful of dust: NASA just brought back the largest-ever asteroid...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eleanor K. Sansom, Research Associate, Curtin University NASA After a journey of billions of kilometres, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has culminated in a small black capsule blazing through the sky before touching down in the Utah desert. Inside is likely ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
16 hours ago

Handing Climate Policy To Appointed Bureaucrats Is Undemocratic And Ineffective
Responding to Labour’s promise to hand control over carbon pricing under the Emissions Trading Scheme to the Climate Change Commission, Taxpayers’ Union Deputy Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: “Handing control of carbon pricing away to faceless ...
Scoop politics
16 hours ago

Friendship ended with Sky Sport. Now Rabbitholebd Sports is my best friend
How to watch the Black Caps vs Bangladesh for free – and why YouTube is actually the best live sports streaming platform. New Zealand Cricket nerds hoping to watch the first match of the Black Caps’ pre-World Cup ODI series against Bangladesh last week were out of luck – not ...
The SpinoffBy Calum Henderson
16 hours ago

Taxpayers’ Union Welcomes National’s Sanction Regime On The Job-Seeker Benefit
Taxpayers’ Union welcomes National’s sanction regime on the Job-Seeker Benefit Responding to National’s proposed changes to the Job-Seeker benefit scheme, Taxpayers’ Union National Campaigns Manager, Callum Purves, said: “The current job-seeker ...
Scoop politics
17 hours ago

Green List Good News, But Don’t Stop There
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Scoop politics
17 hours ago

PNG’s Chief Censor warns over ‘fake nudes’ harassment of young girls
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby The rise in social media platforms uploading naked pictures of women and girls has come to the attention of the Censorship Board in Papua New Guinea with Chief Censor Jim Abani warning about the dangers. In what many have termed as cyber bullying, a ...
Evening ReportBy Asia Pacific Report
17 hours ago

Labour promises to ‘turbocharge’ medicine funding
Labour would invest over $1 billion in new funding at Pharmac if reelected, leader Chris Hipkins has promised. It will mean $181 million of funding a year from 2024/25, along with an extra $50 million for new treatments in the first year, rising to $100 million a year in 2026/2027. ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
17 hours ago

Labour promises $1b boost to Pharmac over four years
Aiming to fund more medicines, Labour leader Chris Hipkins has announced over $1 billion of new funding for Pharmac, if re-elected. ...
Radio NZ – political
17 hours ago

Voting Starts Soon In The 2023 General Election
Voting in the 2023 General Election will be underway soon, with overseas voting starting tomorrow Wednesday 27 September and voting places opening in New Zealand next Monday 2 October. Overseas voting Voters who are overseas can vote from Wednesday ...
Scoop politics
17 hours ago

A mega list of Megapod listens
Last week’s 12-hour Gone By Lunchtime Megapod saw a number of fascinating chats in The Spinoff studio – and now you can listen back to all of them. Head to the Gone By Lunchtime feed wherever you get your podcasts to catch up on all the interviews, including with Labour’s ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
17 hours ago

Whatever happened to the streaming wars?
A pandemic made the rivalry between Netflix, Disney, Apple, Amazon and more the hottest story in business. Now two strikes have the industry at a crossroads. It’s easy to forget, but the first “streaming war” actually broke out in music. In the mid-2010s, when Obama was still president, the rivalry ...
The SpinoffBy Duncan Greive
18 hours ago

National Party reveals traffic light system for Jobseeker beneficiaries
The National Party has announced a system that could leave people "who are able to work" on the Jobseeker benefit with reductions or suspensions. ...
Radio NZ – political
18 hours ago

National Party reveals traffic light system for Jobseeker beneficiaries
The National Party has announced a system that could leave people "who are able to work" on the Jobseeker benefit with reductions or suspensions. ...
Radio NZ – political
18 hours ago

McAnulty butts heads with National candidate over water reforms
At a public meeting in Waipukurau, Labour’s Kieran McAnulty said National’s unreleased economic plan won’t have any money set aside for the reforms once known as Three Waters. Stewart Sowman-Lund reports. Labour’s Kieran McAnulty has “bet” that National’s forthcoming fiscal plan won’t have any money in it for water reforms ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
18 hours ago

National pledges ‘traffic light’ system, with more sanctions, for beneficiaries
National would introduce a tiered “traffic light” system for beneficiaries, pledging to penalise unemployed people who persistently do not meet their benefit obligations. The party’s social development spokesperson Louise Upston said that benefit dependency had surged under Labour, with almost 60,000 more people on the jobseeker benefit compared with when ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
18 hours ago

Winston Peters a ‘force for chaos’, says Hipkins
It’s Tuesday, September 26 and welcome back to The Spinoff’s election live updates. I’m Stewart Sowman-Lund, on deck from Palmerston North, with support from our news team around the country. Get in touch with me on [email protected] Learn more about the political parties and where they stand at Policy.nz ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
18 hours ago

John Key floats Winston Peters as speaker of the house
Former prime minister Sir John Key has backed National leader Christopher Luxon’s decision to rule in working with New Zealand First. And he’s floated a possible governing arrangement that he thinks could work. Speaking to RNZ’s Checkpoint yesterday, Key said that having New Zealand First propping up National and Act ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
19 hours ago

A national digital ID scheme is being proposed. An expert weighs the pros and (many more) cons
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erica Mealy, Lecturer in Computer Science, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock In 2018-19, identity crime directly and indirectly cost Australia an estimated A$3.1 billion. To address such costs, the federal government is proposing a national digital identity scheme that will ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
19 hours ago

The ‘yes’ Voice campaign is far outspending ‘no’ in online advertising, but is the message g...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University With early voting set to open next week for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum, this is a critical time for campaigners to win over voters. If ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
19 hours ago

Is it normal to forget words while speaking? And when can it spell a problem?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greig de Zubicaray, Professor of Neuropsychology, Queensland University of Technology mimi thian/unsplash We’ve all experienced that moment mid-sentence when we just can’t find the word we want to use, even though we’re certain we know it. Why does this ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
19 hours ago

Container deposit schemes reduce rubbish on our beaches. Here’s how we proved it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kay Critchell, Lecturer in Oceanography, Deakin University Shutterstock Our beaches are in trouble. Limited recycling programs and a society that throws away so much have resulted in more than 3 million tonnes of plastic polluting the oceans. An estimated 1.5–1.9% ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
19 hours ago

As Antarctic sea ice continues its dramatic decline, we need more measurements and much better model...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Inga Smith, Associate Professor in Physics, University of Otago Jan Lieser, CC BY-SA After two seasons of record-breaking lows, Antarctica’s sea ice remains in dramatic decline, tracking well below any winter maximum levels observed since satellite monitoring began during the ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
19 hours ago

Take risks, embrace failure and be comfortable with uncertainty: 3 activities to help your child thi...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Zouwer, Visual Artist and Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Canberra As a visual artist and educator, I know how important it is to encourage your child to think and behave like an artist. But this is not necessarily about drawing ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
19 hours ago

Workplace loneliness is the modern pandemic damaging lives and hurting businesses
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shea X. Fan, Senior Lecturer in International Business, School of Management, RMIT University Shutterstock Loneliness is a much discussed social issue, but it is rarely considered to be a workplace problem that needs to be managed like other health issues ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
19 hours ago

From Luna Park to neo-Nazis – why the Middle Ages still matters to middle Australia
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miles Pattenden, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University The medieval is part of the mosaic of modern Australia. Our nation’s heritage on this island continent is full of it: in aesthetics, institutions, laws, languages, identities, moralities. ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
19 hours ago

The cost of being: A suburban homeowner in their 30s
As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a healthcare worker $700-a-week mortgage shares where their money goes. Want to contribute? Email [email protected] to receive the form. Gender: Male Age: 34 Ethnicity: Pākehā Role: Healthcare/Social Services Manager My living location is: Suburban Rent/Mortgage per ...
The SpinoffBy The Cost of Being
19 hours ago

Labour wins election (in 1984)
A memoir of David Lange leading Labour to victory in the 1984 election, as told by an author and family friend There’s a New Zealand Herald photograph of David Lange, family and followers celebrating Labour’s win on election night, 1984. It’s taken in the Metro Theatre, Mangere, where a ...
Newsroom
20 hours ago

The Bulletin: Change of direction for source of cryptosporidium outbreak
As Stuff’s Debbie Jamieson reports, efforts to hunt out the source of Queenstown’s cryptosporidium outbreak are moving away from the water supply toward businesses in the central town. Yesterday, the council received negative results from water supply samples taken last week and Public Health South has confirmed it is looking for alternative ...
The SpinoffBy Anna Rawhiti-Connell
20 hours ago

‘Change to what?’ Hipkins says NZ worried about possible National-Act-NZ First coalition
New polling shows Winston Peters would be the kingmaker after this year’s election, but Chris Hipkins said if that’s the case he’s comfortable with it meaning a new National-led government. The Newshub Reid-Research poll had New Zealand First up to 5.2%, meaning they would bring six MPs back to parliament ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
20 hours ago

Young candidates debate as poll sets stage for return of ‘Matua Winston’
Juxtaposition aplenty as candidates front for young voters’ debate and new polling proves you can never write Winston Peters off, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Young voters’ debate provides juxtaposition ...
The SpinoffBy Anna Rawhiti-Connell
20 hours ago

Labour leader Chris Hipkins does not regret ruling out working with NZ First after latest poll
Labour leader Chris Hipkins says he "absolutely" does not regret ruling out working with NZ First, after the latest political poll showed Winston Peters would return as Kingmaker. ...
Radio NZ – political
21 hours ago

Live Election 2023 updates: All the latest developments on 26 September
The latest Newshub Reid Research poll indicates National and ACT would have 60 seats, just short of the 61 needed to form a government ...
Radio NZ – political
21 hours ago

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