Ken Loach is a lot more powerful than Crosby Textor.
There are a large number of young people in the Labour Party these days. Jacinda's large team in her election campaign were mainly younger than her. It is similar in many electorates.
Andrew Wakefield is also a good mate of Trump's. This is not surprising as they are both unethical and dangerous people .
This is such an important issue. Our best and deepest water is literarily being syphoned off by overseas corporates and we get nothing except the contaminated left over shallow water. There are huge water factories spouting up all over the country. This ...
It was Nikki Kaye and she was saying what she wished she had concentrated on in her years in Parliament, but unfortunately she joined the wrong party.
Helen Clark led a minority government and it would have been hard to get cross party support for, as an example, a capital gains tax, at the time. The LP would have had a hugely negative media reaction. If you remember in those days a capital gains tax was...
There were some good comments in Andrew Little's speech about building communities of housing. These would be like the state house communities of the past - and he said he would carry in the first dining room table just like Savage did - but some houses ...
We need to remember that the mainstream media has never been sympathetic to the left. Labour and the Greens always have and will always get a harder time than National, and there will always be numerous influential people who will be given prominent ...
Bring back the Ministry of Works and stop the endless contracting out whereby the workers are at the end of the economic line, poorly paid and insecure.
I remember one year some women tried to lay a wreath on the Cenotaph to the women victims of war including those raped and murdered. We know that rape is a common weapon of war. The wreath wasn't allowed.
I suppose the Tories will have the services of Cambridge Analytica to do the individual profiling and fake news messaging to every voter that worked so well for Trump. It is particularly easy to target specific marginal areas.
Just make sure it actually happens. Hopefully, we can get some ongoing reports.
I would be wary about this happening any time soon. There is a 5 year plan to implement and we know from earlier examples that the big corporates will do anything they can not to pass on the pay increase.
I don't follow rugby but I have been impressed by SBW in recent years as someone with a mind of his own and ethics. Speaking up against corporates - great. He has done great work in his UNICEF ambassador role too.
This policy is only for poor people. Richer people can buy the same services but their identifiable data won't be collected and shared.
This morning the police are praising themselves for having an inquiry into police coverups of sexual violence ten years ago. They say it made a huge change to their culture. It took a long time to get such an inquiry. So why isn't the NZDF and the ...
Good Wellington mayor pays employees the living wage and saves money. Cuts out the contractor and employs workers directly. So sensible. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11830515
No DPB any more. No sickness benefit either, by the way. Just Supported Living for some disabled people and everyone else is considered to be a Job Seeker, even if widowed people with young children or seriously ill (as portrayed in the brilliant film, I ...
Wasn't it Minister of Health Simon Upton who fired all the elected health board members and destroyed the boards overnight to bring in user pays? That was soon after the National Government came into office in 1990. The public health system has never ...
Peter Thiel has IT expertise and data relevant to winning elections for the National Party (and the Republicans etc)
Whistleblowers are a threat to the establishment, and always get a hard time from them. The louder the put downs the more effective the whistleblowing.
It is sad that Nikki Kaye has stooped so low here. It is also surprising that she is wasting time on such nastiness. With cancer many people re-evaluate their lives and decide what is really important. Strange that she has decided that unbridled political ...
Jacinda proudly puts children at the forefront of her policies and speeches and has championed children and families in much of her work, even though she has only ever been an Opposition MP. That the National Party ignores all this says more about them ...
Has anyone else noticed the link between the call for more education and awareness of consent by these young people, and Government wanting to override consent to privacy for those who go to Rape Crisis or other groups for support?
To be fair to Justin that is Guyon Espiner's interpretation about what he said. There could have been a lot more context or qualification that wasn't printed. Justin also had to stand up to Brownlee very determinedly after the earthquakes so that comment ...
Interesting turn around by Guyon Espiner because he backed another of the candidates for the Mayoralty.
Blog at Public Address raises similar concerns https://publicaddress.net/access/privacy-and-the-right-to-consent-are-all/
Needs to be a serious inquiry with wide terms of reference. There are many threads to this horrific story that need to be addressed.
I'm angry at the terrible things this Government is doing. I'm glad Andrew Little is too.
Wellington Central-based National MP Paul Foster-Bell has been pushed out. He has been subject to a nasty internal Nat campaign for a couple of years and now they've won. Where is the examination of the detail of these nasty internal Nat politics? Was it ...
The Public Health and Disability Amendment Act 2013 was such an attack on our human rights legislation that it appears as an example of why we need a constitution in the recent book by Sir Geoffrey Palmer. This act provided the most grudging, minimal and ...
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