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: Comment:Open Mike 12/07/2017
Date published: 6:56 pm, July 12th, 2017
We do read Patrick Cockburn,, Paul/Ed, we just don't mis-use his work for specious arguments from authority as you're wont to do.
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: Comment:He's baaaack
Date published: 7:07 am, July 2nd, 2017
... of him ever being given authority over anything ever again. He's...
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: Comment:Open Mike 19/06/2017
Date published: 7:05 pm, June 19th, 2017
Hi, Psycho Milt. I'm trying to understand in ... those products rely upon an authority to guarantee the authenticity; ie...
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: Comment:Open Mike 19/06/2017
Date published: 6:32 pm, June 19th, 2017
... hands of the bodies with authority over the ideology - ie, pressure...
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: Comment:Open Mike 14/05/2017
Date published: 9:22 am, May 14th, 2017
... for his Manukau Urban Māori Authority interest in a second charter...
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: Comment:Black is White. Up is Down.
Date published: 9:59 am, April 18th, 2017
... article was pretty funny. The author makes some assumptions about things...
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: Comment:Open Mike 09/04/2017
Date published: 9:00 am, April 9th, 2017
... inculcating obedience and deference to authority. Oh, the irony...
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: Comment:Green Party criticises US strike on Syria
Date published: 9:04 pm, April 8th, 2017
... for. There are plenty of authors and commenters on this blog...
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: Comment:Green Party criticises US strike on Syria
Date published: 7:18 pm, April 8th, 2017
... poisoning and the Turkish medical authorities who found evidence of sarin...
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: Comment:Open Mike 06/04/2017
Date published: 8:30 pm, April 6th, 2017
... spare us the appeals to authority.
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: Comment:The NZDF will never clear its name - and neither will Bill English
Date published: 8:28 am, April 3rd, 2017
... for your assertion that the authors claimed it was impossible for...
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: Comment:Green Party announces its initial party list
Date published: 6:26 am, April 3rd, 2017
For two equally-ranked positions, "seniority" is simply a matter of who's been in the position the longest. It implies nothing along the lines of additional rank or authority.
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: Comment:Open Mike 26/03/2017
Date published: 9:18 pm, March 28th, 2017
... a supreme and unquestionable supernatural authority and that these are the... to be issued by that authority, but I'm not familiar with...
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: Comment:NZDF credibility on the line
Date published: 6:58 pm, March 27th, 2017
... think the book has one author? It was the same at...
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: Comment:Open Mike 26/03/2017
Date published: 10:32 am, March 26th, 2017
... it's predicated on God having authority over you and your body...
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: Comment:Open Mike 13/03/2017
Date published: 9:44 pm, March 13th, 2017
... you think an authority figure got his position of authority under an...
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: Comment:We Are All 'Identarian' Now
Date published: 1:20 pm, February 14th, 2017
...? The implication being that the author is opposed to all forms... the people disagreeing with the author are "hateful," it beats me...
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: Comment:Open Mike 30/01/2017
Date published: 10:39 am, January 30th, 2017
... idea that only people in authority are responsible for their actions...
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: Comment:Labour Greens joint State of the Nation livestream and discussion
Date published: 8:29 am, January 30th, 2017
... pull over doesn't constitute the authorities playing judge, jury and executioner...
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: Comment:Punching Nazis, and practicing resistance
Date published: 6:35 am, January 30th, 2017
... having been Nazis, but the author Hans Helmut Kirst, a top...
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: Comment:Open Mike 25/01/2017
Date published: 8:38 am, January 26th, 2017
... which the leader has absolute authority, a person could make the... which the leader has absolute authority. That counter-argument would be...
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: Comment:Open Mike 25/01/2017
Date published: 7:47 am, January 26th, 2017
... of it was made up. Authorities can invent legal code whenever... with heresy - of course religious authorities of whatever stripe will persecute...
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: Comment:Open Mike 25/01/2017
Date published: 6:45 pm, January 25th, 2017
...) and the right of religious authorities to classify all human behaviour...
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: Comment:Starting out with an obvious lie
Date published: 6:46 pm, January 23rd, 2017
No doubt, but "alleged by Robert Fisk" isn't any different from "alleged" in practical terms. Also: you might want to Google the terms 'logical fallacy argument from authority.'
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: Comment:Open Mike 18/01/2017
Date published: 5:19 pm, January 18th, 2017
Ee-urk, I followed the link. The original really does read like McGonagall - I wonder if the author was taking the piss?
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: Comment:Open Mike 17/01/2017
Date published: 10:17 pm, January 17th, 2017
... the Russian government are reliable authorities.
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: Comment:Open Mike 17/01/2017
Date published: 10:09 pm, January 17th, 2017
And back to the old favourite, "argument from authority." This may come as a terrible shock, Paul, but Patrick Cockburn has no more idea than you or I do whether all or any of the things in that dossier are true or not.
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: Comment:Open Mike 14/01/2017
Date published: 11:02 am, January 14th, 2017
The author describes himself as a "conservative ...
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: Comment:Open Mike 11/01/2017
Date published: 9:26 am, January 11th, 2017
... - not due to anything the author writes, but because it rubs...
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: Comment:Open Mike 09/01/2017
Date published: 7:22 pm, January 9th, 2017
... cross over. One is attacking authors. Another, a particular bugbear of.... "I discussed the likes of Psycho Milt with the moderators a few...
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: Comment:Open Mike 04/01/2017
Date published: 8:39 pm, January 4th, 2017
...? I hold no position of authority to speak for anyone. However...
- Movie review: The Young Karl Marx
by Daphna Whitmore This movie is two hours of non-stop Marxist banter. Tossing around the ideas of Marx, Engels, Proudon, Bakunin and Weitling, with references to Hegel here and there, it should be as dry as hell, even for a ...4 hours ago - National wants to sell the national grid
ack in 2013, after a hugely unpopular plan to part-privatise electricity gentailers, National promised that there would be no more asset sales. Of course, they were lying:NZ First says a leaked January 2017 presentation to Transpower by Swiss Investment Bankers ...6 hours ago - London conference, Sept 19/20: Capital 150 – Marx’s Capital Today
Location: Student Central (formerly ULU), London WC1E 7HY, Malet Street, Conference attendance fee £10. Date/time: Tuesday 19 September (11am-8pm) – Wednesday 20 September 2017 (10am – 4pm) Contact: capital150conference@gmail.com Registration URL: http://bit.ly/2uhukxO King’s College website details here. Tuesday 19 September Crises (11am–1:30pm) Guglielmo Carchedi – The ...9 hours ago - Climate change: Fiddling while the planet burnsTwo years ago, the government announced a review of its failed emissions trading system. Today, it announced the results of that review. Unfortunately, the result is essentially to do nothing. Oh, they're looking at auctioning units, so the government can ...9 hours ago
- The real Kiwi hero of Dunkirk
At 22, Al Deere became a hero shooting down German planes during the Dunkirk evacuations, inspiring Tom Hardy’s character in the new movie. Warning: this story contains spoilers for Dunkirk. Al Deere (left), who partly inspired Tom Hardy's ...10 hours ago - Member’s DayToday is a Member's day, the second to last of the Parliamentary term. And now that we've finally had some interesting bills drawn - death with dignity and medicinal cannabis - the Order Paper is clogged with boring ones. First ...10 hours ago
- An honest endorsementMMP requires coalitions. But because some high-profile political journalists hate that idea, they've traditionally been reluctant to endorse the parties they would like to work with, instead signalling via a "cup of tea" in a cafe or something. But not ...10 hours ago
- Is Parnell Station Fixable?
A couple of weeks ago Harriet kick-started a pretty big discussion on whether Parnell station is fundamentally flawed in its current location. The post was picked up by The Spinoff and provoked much interest in the comments. In essence, because ...10 hours ago - NZ Household income – addressing the gaps
This chart from the Household Incomes Report is worth deeper inspection. Each row adds up to 100%, so, for example, 12% of people 0-17 are in the top quintile (top 20%) of households by income. I want to ...10 hours ago - On the unbearable closeness of others
Originally published at Overland. We live in literal times. Far too literal. Hell’s vestibule in Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit was supposed to be a metaphorical, metaphysical place. Now we’ve gone and invented it. A virtual space. An enormous room. We ...11 hours ago - The “Majestic Equality” Of The Law – And Its Challengers.
11 hours ago - Inequality: stagnation is no success by Max Rashbrooke
People have taken to noting that New Zealand’s level inequality hasn’t changed much in the last 15 years. And it’s true, up to a point. But it leaves out a couple of things. First, it conveniently omits most of that ...12 hours ago - Synthetic cannabis: The killer high
There have been eight deaths related to synthetic cannabis in just over a month. People know it's killing them. So why are they smoking it? Photo: Diego Opatowski/RNZ Synthetic cannabis has a distinctive smell, I am told. ...12 hours ago - Government doesn’t care about kids teeth
With New Zealand having some of the worst oral health in the world, you would think that the government would be doing all in its power to improve things.Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be the case, with children from lower ...14 hours ago - About those fake elective surgery stats
The National led government has once again been caught misrepresenting statistics in order to make themselves look good… this time on the numbers of people getting elective surgery.Statistics on elective surgery are Nationals go to when they’re trying to make ...14 hours ago - Can value capture help pay for new infrastructure?
When we build new infrastructure that connects places to useful destinations or opens up development opportunities, it lifts the value of properties in the surrounding areas. This is pretty intuitively sensible: Holding all else equal, most people would be willing ...16 hours ago - Introducing a Universal Basic Income in New Zealand – Insights from the Finnish Trial?
Finland began a Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilot at the start of 2017. Will its findings be useful in informing the policy debate in New Zealand? The idea of a UBI scheme has attracted growing interest in recent years: the ...17 hours ago - Gordon Campbell on the real truth deficit in welfare
First published on Werewolf It has been astonishing to see the amount of time and energy being spent on what Greens co-leader Metiria Turei did or didn’t do properly as a beneficiary back in the early 1990s – as compared ...22 hours ago - France: “Only the collective strength of the working class can bring change”At the annual fête de Lutte Ouvriere The French revolutionary Lutte Ouvriere produces scores of weekly workplace bulletins. The bulletins are about particular issues in the workplaces while also containing a national editorial. Below is the editorial that appeared ...1 day ago
- Comment on Councils to consider national cat legislation by Sophie WilliamsBest wishes for success! Show the USA how to do it right. ...1 day ago
- Data gaps and social murderToday in Question Time we saw a perfect example of how government dodges accountability: by deliberate ignorance. Asked how many beneficiaries were homeless, the Minister for Social Development made it clear that she didn't know, and asked that it be ...1 day ago
- Streetfilms: NijmegenA great new video from Streetfilms on Nijmegen in the Netherlands and something particularly relevant for our smaller cities like Hamilton, Tauranga and Dunedin This Streetfilm was a pure joy to make, and it really snuck up on me. Nijmegen, ...1 day ago
- Left Voice video on Pepsi workers’ struggle, Buenos Aires1 day ago
- Voter Motivators 2017: Immigration.
1 day ago - People don’t want media to rip-off their Facebook and Twitter posts – study
Public interest or interested public? Photo: 123rf The broadcasting regulator wants the media to rethink how it uses public social media posts without permission. The Broadcasting Standards Authority has published the results of focus group discussions of ...1 day ago - Who is advising the National party?
Traditionally, the National led government and their propagandists have blamed the Labour party for any problems it’s faced over the last nine years. Obviously they’re just passing the buck... but their brain-dead supporters seem to love it.However heading into this ...1 day ago - New Govt Housing Company – Paerata and Drury West Confirmed
On Sunday Bill English announced a co-investment of up to $600m for network infrastructure needed to support more greenfield growth in north and south of Auckland. This will be through a Crown company called Crown Infrastructure Partners (CIP), formally Crown Fibre Holdings. ...2 days ago - Gordon Campbell on the Bojo visit
Column – Gordon CFirst published on Werewolf British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson is in town today, just over a year since his political career peaked… and then wobbled off into a grey zone of indecision. Yes, Johnson did front successfully ...2 days ago - Are Markets Free?
In a recent Metro article, Matthew Hooten wrote ‘globalisation combined with free markets has been the most successful economic and social system of the world’. I do not propose to discuss whether we can describe as successful a social system ...2 days ago - On welfare and survival
I have been on and off welfare for 13 years now (six of those I was on the student allowance which was still shit and hard to access but at least I was never sanctioned). I am a precarious low ...2 days ago - WINZ staff have a target for throwing people off benefitsSomething we knew all along, but until now could never prove: WINZ staff have a target for throwing people off benefits: Work and Income (WINZ) staff are "more than happy" to break the law to get people off benefits so ...2 days ago
- Two-facedSince National introduced chater schools into New Zealand, Labour has been crystal clear in its opposition, promising repeatedly to abolish and close them. But now it turns out that they didn't really mean it after all:Labour plans to make changes ...2 days ago
- The Beguiled: Another rumination on the insular, impenetrable world of wealthy white girlhood
The Beguiled may be a detour for Sofia Coppola, but somehow all roads lead to the same place. Colin Farrell and Kirsten Dunst in The Beguiled. Photo: NZ International Film Festival When it comes to Sofia ...2 days ago - Councils to consider national cat legislationAs part of the LGNZ’s AGM this week local councils will vote on a remit to improve the management of cats in New Zealand. If successful councils will lobby the Government for development of national legislation to help manage cats. ...2 days ago
- Sins Of Admission: A Response To John Armstrong’s Attack On Metiria Turei.
2 days ago - Shooting the messengerThere is abundant evidence that the British military committed war crimes in Iraq: torture, abuse, the murder of civilians, all of which are crimes under UK and UK military law. But rather than properly investigating those crimes, the Ministry of ...2 days ago
- Must readToday's must-read (though its from last week): Peter Newport's piece in The Spinoff on The Ministry of Transport fraud case: Why the rot goes deeper than Joanne Harrison. Based on information from more MoT whistleblowers, it makes a convincing case ...2 days ago
- What’s your gig? How work is changing
Sometimes giving up on a single job pays off. Illustration: Rachel Neser Contemporary dance performer, choreographer, producer, teacher, administration assistant, life model and koha-funded drinks company owner. Those job titles all apply to Natalie Maria Clark. ...2 days ago - The GCSB perjured themselvesKim Dotcom lost a court case last week over whether he could see the communications the GCSB intercepted from him in order to assess the amount of damages he is owed. But in doing so, we learned something new: that ...2 days ago
- The main stream media is out of touch
3 days ago - Sean Plunket – Asshole of the Week
After this weekend you’ve really got to wonder if The Opportunities Party is trying to be the new Association of Consumers and Taxpayers party?Not content with mansplaining Lizzie Marvelly about her latest Herald column for most of Saturday, Sean Plunket ...3 days ago - National – Kiwi jobseekers are drug addicts
There is no question that the National party likes a high level of immigration into New Zealand because it keeps wages artificially low. The side effect is that increasing competition through unemployment and underemployment means many Kiwi jobseekers miss out ...3 days ago - Battery trains to be approved for Pukekohe
On Wednesday, the council’s Finance Committee is being asked to give urgent funding approval to purchase 17 new battery powered trains, or Independently Powered Electric Multiple Units (IPEMUs) as they’re referred to officially. The council paper and the full business case notes ...3 days ago - Gordon Campbell on why Trump is a good thing
First published on Werewolf At this point, its worth noting there’s one good reason for being grateful that Donald Trump is in the White House – and the appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as the White House Communications Director is a ...3 days ago - On the ‘NZ Taxpayers Union Inc’ PR attack machine
Following some discussion on Twitter about this astroturf political attack machine’s activities, I’ve been asked for these. They’re public documents available on the Register of Incorporated Societies … Application to incorporate a society (see names below*) ‘NZ Taxpayers Union Inc’ ...3 days ago - Corbyn’s Labour, British imperialism and the working classBelow is the text of a talk delivered by Dani in Dunedin on Friday, July 21. by Dani Sanmugathasan Good evening! My name is Dani Sanmugathasan, and I am a member of the British Marxist and Leninist organisation called ...3 days ago
- What’s In It for Putin?
As Donald Trump starts to sink into that quicksand of his own making that the vexed issue of Russian involvement in his election has now become, one question – among the many others that arise in this context – may ...3 days ago - Sunday reading 23 July 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading. Here are a bunch of housing stories starting with one from the Yale professor Robert W Shiller on the supply constraints responsible for the housing crisis in the States. Robert Shiller, “Why Do Cities Become Unaffordable?“, ...4 days ago - 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #29
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's Pick The Planet Is Warming. And It's Okay to Be Afraid Why being fearful can be part of a healthy, heroic response ...4 days ago - Corbyn’s Labour – still wedded to capitalism; British ‘far left’ – still wedded to Labourby Workers Fight The recent developments on the political scene in Britain have thrown usually clever commentators and political pundits into a mild state of confusion. After all, it was one thing getting the result of the 2016 EU referendum ...4 days ago
- China’s Got Talent!
A truly splendid rendition of The Internationale. Enjoy. Video courtesy of YouTube This posting is exclusive to Bowalley Road. ...4 days ago - Drinking river water – Tourism NZ puts visitors at risk
. . When it comes to irresponsibility and incompetence, we are well used to National’s performance over the last eight years. Homelessness and rising unaffordability, under-funding in healthcare and education; corporate subsidies; wasting taxpayers’ money on pointless exercises; increasing ...5 days ago - Hard News: This is bad – very bad
According to a statement issued today by the Chief Coroner and the police, seven deaths in the past month in Auckland have been linked to the use of "synthetic cannabis". A follow-up report in the Herald has more bad news: a St ...5 days ago - Labour’s promise puts future of public tertiary education on the ballot paper
Labour’s promise to ditch the National-led Government’s plans to change the law so that public funds can be diverted to for-profit education offers voters a real choice in this election about the future of public tertiary education, the Tertiary Education ...5 days ago - “No idea” IIMeanwhile, while the government claims it had "no idea" there was a housing crisis or that it would cost so much, social housing waiting lists have hit record highs: The growing demand for social housing in New Zealand is showing ...5 days ago
- The Square is the quintessential film festival film – with a twist.
Part social commentary, part satire, the Swedish Palme d’Or winner will draw in festy goers like moths to flames. But is it laughing with, or at, its audience? Photo: NZ International Film Festival The Square is the ...5 days ago - Emerging artists explore housing, political, celebrity issues
Art for more than just art's sake. Theo Macdonald's depiction of himself as David Bowie is one of dozens of artworks. Image: Supplied A slab of concrete will soon be hung on a wall at Victoria ...5 days ago - Hard News: Friday Music: Remembering RoiIn the days before email, when even toll calls were prohibitively priced, we would write each other letters. Rambling affairs, typed single-space (yes, some of us had typewriters – we weren't cave people) and full of news, gossip and extravagant ...5 days ago
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- New East-West images
A newsletter from the NZTA yesterday highlighted some new graphics of what the East-West Link will look like. The consent hearings for the project are currently in full swing. The first, and most shocking drawing, is of the East-West Link ...5 days ago - The cost of denialDespite having been warned for years about the housing crisis, National now says it had "no idea" that it was a problem:Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett has admitted "in hindsight" the Government's response to the housing crisis has been too ...5 days ago
- The contrast between Labour and National is clear
5 days ago - Nothing Fresh About Labour’s Approach.
6 days ago - June-2017 Ridership
Auckland Transport have now published the ridership figures for June. The month is one of the most important in the year as it represents the end of the financial year and so the results are what become the official results ...6 days ago - Have the Greens gone ‘radical’?by Phil Duncan Well, according to the media – and there seems to be quite a consensus – the answer to the question above is a resounding ‘yes’. According to Tim Murphy, co-editor of Newsroom, policies adopted at last weekend’s ...6 days ago
- The no go areaBy Don Franks In a few short weeks, all New Zealand citizens over 18 not in prison will be entitled to cast a vote electing the countries parliament. This modern set of rights is an undeniable step up from the ...6 days ago
- NZ Initiative – Bulk Funding Schools. . Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein. . On 6 July, the “NZ Initiative” – a re-branded right-wing think-tank previously known as the NZ Business Roundtable – released a ...6 days ago
- The Singles Life: Theia and the state of post-Lorde pop
Welcome to weekly series The Singles Life, where known experts Katie Parker and Hussein Moses peruse, ponder and pontificate on the latest and (maybe) greatest in New Zealand music. When Lorde first came on the scene four years ago, ...6 days ago - Unprotected disclosuresThe State Services Commission has released the results of its inquiry into retaliation by convicted fraudster Joanne Harrison against staff who tried to blow the whistle on her. They're pretty devastating: Four whistleblowers at the Ministry of Transport suffered "humiliating" ...6 days ago
- Cuts to Otago University support roles puts teaching at riskTertiary Update Vol 20 No 24 University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Harlene Hayne has announced plans to cut 182 full-time equivalent jobs from some of the university’s most vital support services. Professor Hayne told staff at a meeting last Friday that the ...6 days ago
- TEU national secretary honoured for 32 years union serviceThe Tertiary Education Union’s national secretary, Sharn Riggs, was recognised at the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions women’s conference for over 32 years of outstanding service to union women. Speaking to the award on behalf of the Tertiary Education Union ...6 days ago
- Tell your story and take a stand for tertiary educationIf you have a story about how tertiary education has helped you, your whānau, your students or someone you know, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) is asking you share it in a People’s Submission. National is pressing ahead with plans to ...6 days ago
- Union women oppose National’s tertiary law changeWomen from across the union movement have taken a collective stand against a change in law that could see vast sums of public money being transferred away from public tertiary institutions to private providers. In a remit passed at the ...6 days ago
- People should be paid for their workThe Māori Party's latest immigration policy: slavery for migrants:An internship visa that would require migrants with special skills to train young people in the regions is to be announced by the Maori Party today. The package is part of the ...6 days ago
- Dunkirk is more than a typical Christopher Nolan moneymaker – It’s a masterpiece
War has never looked like this before. Photo: Roadshow Films When news broke that Christopher Nolan had chose a World War Two epic as his next project it was hard not to feel cynical. After all, with ...6 days ago
- More proof National not delivering for New Zealanders
The Ministry of Social Development’s latest Household Incomes Report is more hard evidence of the growing poverty in New Zealand, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. “National claims to be delivering for New Zealanders. This report puts the lie ...1 day ago - Strong support from medical community for Healthy Homes BillMore than a thousand medical professionals, medical students, and other New Zealanders have shown their support for Labour’s Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. ...1 day ago
- Labour will fund Buller Health CentreA Labour Government will fully fund the Buller Integrated Family Health Centre in Westport, confirming its commitment to the people of the West Coast and the role of central government to fund essential public services, says Labour’s Health spokesperson David ...1 day ago
- National’s affordable promise for Auckland more smoke and mirrorsThe 26,000 additional houses National plans to build in Auckland on public land over the next decade include fewer than 5,000 affordable homes, while more than 60 per cent will be available for speculators to buy, says Leader of the ...2 days ago
- National out of touch over immigrationNational’s abrupt backflip on their recently-announced changes to immigration shows they never understood the problem and just came up with a confused knee jerk response, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. “Regional communities and businesses were quite right to ...2 days ago
- English out of touch on homelessnessBill English’s comments that he doesn’t know why people are complaining about the blowout in the number of homeless families the government is putting up in motels just shows how tired and out of touch National is after nine years, ...2 days ago
- All Kiwis to have same standard of cancer careLabour is promising that all New Zealanders will have access to the same level of cancer care no matter where they live in the country, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. “As someone who has survived cancer I ...3 days ago
- Infrastructure announcement too long coming“What took you so long?” is Labour’s response to the Government’s announcement of a new infrastructure investment vehicle. Labour’s Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford says Labour announced its policy in 2015 to debt-finance infrastructure and service that debt with targeted ...3 days ago
- Time for a breather on immigrationNational has no idea how to house the record number of people entering New Zealand, let alone cope with the pressure on health, education, and transport from this record population growth, says Labour’s Immigration spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway. ...5 days ago
- Labour to invest $4 billion in educationLabour’s Education Manifesto will bring positive change across the education sector and is backed by a massive investment, says Labour’s Education Spokesperson Chris Hipkins. “Labour’s plan will see an extra $4 billion invested over the next four years. It’s organised ...5 days ago
- National’s shame: worst homelessness in the OECDNational’s legacy is a housing crisis that has given New Zealand the worst homeless rate in the developed world, says Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford. ...5 days ago
- Labour taking action on school donationsLabour will end so-called voluntary school donations for the majority of parents across the country under its $4 billion plan to revitalise the education sector, says Labour Leader Andrew Little. “Labour has always been committed to a world-class free education ...6 days ago
- Labour to work with Queenstown to build more housesLabour will work with Queenstown-Lakes District Council, iwi, and the Community Housing Trust to build the modern, affordable housing Queenstown desperately needs, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. ...6 days ago
- Nats blow the Budget on motels after bowling state housesNational is spending $140,000 a day putting homeless families in motels, the legacy of nine years of selling off and knocking down state houses, says Labour Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford. ...6 days ago
- New revelations in Joanne Harrison reportThe State Services Commission’s report into the treatment of whistle-blowers by Joanne Harrison has revealed new accusations against the convicted fraudster, says Labour MP Sue Moroney. “The report found that four staff inside the Ministry of Transport who had raised ...6 days ago
- Snafu at Princess MargaretJonathan Coleman has to stop the stalling over a new building for mental health services in Christchurch to replace the quake damaged Princess Margaret Hospital, says Labour’s Health spokesperson David Clark. “The Government must accept that Christchurch is still recovering ...7 days ago
- Labour’s fiscal plan to build a fairer New ZealandLabour will re-build our housing, health and education while responsibly managing New Zealand’s finances, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. “Under Labour’s Fiscal Plan we will deliver big investments in the services we all need and care about, invest ...1 week ago
- Nats show they’re the tax dodgers’ best friendsThe government is taking the knife to IRD at a time when we need a highly skilled department to ensure that multinationals and speculators don’t get away with dodging tax, says Labour’s Revenue spokesperson Michael Wood. ...1 week ago
- Labour secures the future for NZ SuperA Labour Government will secure the future for New Zealand Superannuation so we can continue to provide superannuation to those retiring at age 65, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. “One of the first things a Labour-led Government will ...1 week ago
- Multinationals must pay fair share of taxA Labour Government will crack down on multinational companies that are dodging paying their fair share of tax, says Labour Leader Andrew Little. “New Zealanders are missing out by hundreds of millions according to the IRD because multinational companies can ...1 week ago
- ACT’s approach to children backward and ill informedAct’s new deputy leader’s claim that Labour’s support for families could “extend the misery of child poverty and even child abuse” is ill informed and offensive, says Labour’s Deputy Leader Jacinda Ardern. ...2 weeks ago
- Canterbury hatchet job a disgraceThe Government’s glib acceptance of advice that the Canterbury District Health Board doesn’t need more money is a hatchet job and a disgrace, says Labour’s Health Spokesperson David Clark. “To claim that the DHB was using tactics to leverage more ...2 weeks ago
- Quality for Kiwi kids at ECEAfter more than a decade of rapid growth in the number of children participating in Early Childhood Education (ECE), it’s time to take stock and map out a clear plan for the future, says Labour’s Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins. ...2 weeks ago
- Labour to boost ECE qualityLabour will ensure kids get the best start in life by boosting funding for Early Childhood Centres to employ 100 per cent qualified and registered teachers, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. ...2 weeks ago
- Labour will stump up a million dollars for Maniototo HospitalA Labour led Government will make a million dollars available to rebuild the Maniototo Base hospital in Ranfurly, says the Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. “This will be a much needed boost for a long overdue rebuild that has ...2 weeks ago
- No vision for the West CoastThe West Coast welcomes any Government investment in our region but the lack of any real alternative vision for the West Coast’s economy is disappointing, says Damien O’Connor Labour’s West Coast-Tasman MP. “The establishment of a Mining Research Unit will ...2 weeks ago
- National’s youth work scheme too little too lateAfter nine years, National’s belated attempt to provide work opportunities for unemployed youth should be seen for what it is, a half-hearted, election gimmick from a party that’s ignored the problem till now, says Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little. ...2 weeks ago
- Kiwis won’t fall for Joyce’s spinSteven Joyce’s embarrassingly obvious spin on Labour’s Families Package won’t fool anyone, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson. ...2 weeks ago
- Labour prioritises families and public servicesLabour’s Families Package delivers a bigger income boost to more than 70 per cent of families with children than Budget 2017. By not spending $1.5 billion a year on tax cuts, Labour is able to do more for lower and ...2 weeks ago
- Kiwis can’t sleep in your ghost houses, NickThe Government’s housing infrastructure announcement is another Nick Smith special – over-promising with no detail on delivery, says Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford. ...2 weeks ago
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