Marty, I haven't been reading TS much lately and missed news about your heart attack. I hope you are now on the way to recovery. Kia ora, kia taha. I am very relieved you were able to get the healthcare you needed in time - the world would have been a much...
Nope.
I don't support giving free speech to rabidly misogynist neo-nazis.
Very sorry to hear of Don's death. He was a great character and a legendary fighter for the rights of workers. My sympathy to Greg and to all those who loved him. I was lucky enough to meet Don a few years back at the Māngere Cossie Club. My Dad was a ...
I have been a bit busy and just now catching up with everything that has happened in the last few days. I am mostly relieved as there will be lives saved because of this change of government. Although personally I wanted a Labour/Green coalition with no ...
"Tracey and others made it ‘all about me’ by attacking me personally." The opposite is true RL. You are obviously in pain and I am sorry about that. However, although that explains your bullying behaviour yesterday, it does not excuse it IMO. I realise ...
+1 Carolyn. And thanks for your support Marty.
+ 1000 Marty
I don't believe this story. There is absolutely no chance that Labour would agree to override Māori legal rights again - it took a while but the S & F lesson has been well and truly learnt. To me, this looks like a story made up by a Nat supporting dirty ...
They definitely have Aussie characteristics - loud, brash, colourful and confident. I once saw them attack some Mynas in a rather spectacular fashion. There was a small group of Mynas that would regularly gather in a tree close to my house and then one day...
Rosellas always chatter away while flying - not strictly speaking song I guess. I live on a hill and I hear them coming up the valley well before they get here. I have never seen one on its own - they are usually in a group of six or so - and the only time...
OMG Tracey, that is brilliant! I've seen lots of Mitchell and Webb but somehow missed that one. I wonder if the people at National Radio who decided it would be a good idea having Voxpops during Morning Report have seen it.
Always good to hear what Sue has to say. Huge respect for her. I'd like to see the Greens to be able to demonstrate what they can achieve in government - I think it could help push their vote share at the next election, rather than another term in ...
Latest piece on Winston's desire for a legacy from Gordon Campbell is interesting (and a lot smarter than the reckons from most of the other journalists). http://werewolf.co.nz/2017/10/what-does-winston-peters-want-his-legacy-to-be/
I don't care how long it takes as long as we get a result that will make NZ a better place. Just looked at this clip: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-jacinda-arderns-emotional-embrace-tearful-mother-15-year-old-suicide-victim The fate of ...
Also, Labour and NZF have a very similar forestry policy and the Greens policy on tree planting fits with this this quite well. All 3 parties want to increase the minimum wage to the living wage, and also all are keen on regional development. If Winston ...
Thank you so much for this, Reason, even though it has left me in tears. Your stories are but two of thousands of similar stories in this "rock-star economy. The RWNJ who refuse to acknowledge that what is happening in this country is both cruel and ...
Thanks for the reference to the Caleb Morgan Day's analysis - love that stuff. My optimistic partner was trying to convince me there would be one more seat for the Greens and 2 for Labour, but now I have the evidence that this, as I thought, would be ...
"The National intent is to undermine MMP with the long term view of returning to FPP". Exactly. Going back to FPP would suit the right very well.
Talk about delusional - Paula Bennett thinks the Green Party respects her because of her work on climate change!! http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=11927721&ref=twitter
Lew @LewSOS 11m11 minutes ago "BlueGreens Derangement Syndrome is: 20% Astroturf 15% Happy mischief 30% Dittoheadedness 30% Blind panic about Winston 5% Environmentalism" But also an attempt by right-wingers to destroy the Green Party.
I never believed he would push for a referendum on the Māori seats. He was playing to his Pākehā redneck voter support but he knows that he also has a big support base amongst Māori. 6 out of his 9 MPs are Māori and while not standing in the Māori seats ...
Just discovered this piece from Catherine Delahunty written after the Rally against poverty. Very sad that we have lost these two Wahine Toa from parliament. https://womenswritingcollective.co.nz/wahinetoa/2017/9/25/tea-with-metiria-1
Also, Tamati Coffey was on the list because he wasn't part of the Māori caucus when the decision to go off the list was made, so voters in that electorate could have got Flavell and Coffey. In Te Tai Tokerau they could have got Hone and Kelvin. They chose ...
I assume that you are referring to Kelvin saying that the Māori Party would need to lift their game if they wanted to be in a Labour led government because that was the only thing said about the Māori Party in that press conference. That was being honest. ...
I am not sure what you are talking about re Kelvin but if you had followed the Māori Party as closely as I have you would have seen that they have spent the last year slagging off Labour at every opportunity, and during the actual election campaign they ...
The rule is that the leader and deputy have to be on the list and anyone else standing has to get permission from the headquarters to remove themselves from the list. Labour Māori MPs standing in Māori seats requested to be removed from the list because of...
I just what to add that I do think that the ongoing social media stories are incredibly important and may yet be an effective force for change - for example the stories on #wearebeneficiaries. This wouldn't have happened without Metiria telling her story. ...
"I feel like your comment minimalises what has happened on the ground and in relationships and in people’s hearts in the past 2 months, especially for beneficiaries, and I don’t want to have to argue against that." I am very sorry if that is how my comment...
"The solo mother and brown woman… now thats who we love to kick…" I wasn't suggesting the media's pursuit of Metiria was fair or justified - it certainly was not. What I was trying to say was that it was entirely predictable that the media would do so - in...
Sorry, Weka, I disagree. The people talking about poverty and the failings of the welfare system are exactly the same people who were talking about it before. There have been more stories on social media that will have been read by some people who didn't ...
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