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  1. National’s 18 new taxes

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:35 am, September 4th, 2017 -  14 comments
    Categories: national, spin, tax
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    A dose of reality on National and taxes, and wise words on the media circus surrounding tax.

  2. Challenging the divine right of kingmakers

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:40 pm, September 1st, 2017 -  123 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democratic participation, election 2017, greens, Politics
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    23 days to go. We’re now this close to changing the government, and have a real chance at a truly progressive government with a Labour/Green coalition. For that we need strong Green representation.

  3. Tegg Talk – Second Climate Change Report Withheld By Government

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:13 am, August 31st, 2017 -  5 comments
    Categories: climate change, election 2017, Environment, global warming, national, paula bennett, same old national
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    Denis Tegg reports that the Government is hiding a second critical report on climate change until after the election.

  4. Blue Dragons

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 5:08 pm, August 28th, 2017 -  30 comments
    Categories: national
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    Mark Jennings: ‘A hundred or so young Chinese wearing blue T-shirts with “Blue dragons” written on the front marched in to the stadium in a highly-organised fashion.  I randomly asked two of them why they had come. They seemed to find the question confusing but told me they were overseas students.’

  5. Middle East Changes

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:58 pm, August 27th, 2017 -  70 comments
    Categories: afghanistan, International, iraq, jacinda ardern, labour, Syria, us politics, war
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    If there is a change of Government what should Labour do about requests for military assistance in the Middle East?

  6. Strewth Cobbah

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:00 am, August 16th, 2017 -  163 comments
    Categories: australian politics, election 2017, International, jacinda ardern, labour, making shit up, Politics, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Over the ditch the Australian Government has accused New Zealand Labour of using Parliament to undermine Barnaby Joyce.  But an analysis of the claim suggests that anyone claiming this should be regarded as being a whacka because the media was onto the claim two days before the questions were asked.

  7. The subversive power of joy

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:09 am, August 12th, 2017 -  9 comments
    Categories: activism
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    The subversive power of collective joy is maximised when it occurs in public, politicised spaces as an affirmation of collective identity. 

  8. Corbyn-esque NZ

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 6:17 pm, August 9th, 2017 -  13 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, class, democracy under attack, election 2017, elections, greens, journalism, Media, Metiria Turei, Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    This post was written and ready to go and then news of Metiria Turei stepping down hit. Some of it might read a little strangely because of that. I’ve changed some of the tenses used.

  9. The Kelvin Davis effect

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, August 9th, 2017 -  48 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, Kelvin Davis, labour, leadership
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    Much has been written about the Jacinda Ardern effect that has put Labour so enthusiastically back in the game. But the appointment of Kelvin Davis as deputy is also looking like a very smart move.

  10. ACT wants to subdivide the Waitakere Ranges (or at least the foothills)

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:30 am, August 8th, 2017 -  22 comments
    Categories: act, Conservation, election 2017, Environment, sustainability
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    Act has announced a policy that would undermine current protection given to the Waitakere Ranges.  If it gets a chance …

  11. The big mo #LetsDoThis

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:19 am, August 3rd, 2017 -  18 comments
    Categories: election 2017, jacinda ardern, labour, Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Jacinda Ardern’s ascension to Labour’s leadership appears to have given the Party that most important of campaign phenomena, momentum.

  12. #LeftwithEnough

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 7:30 am, July 31st, 2017 -  14 comments
    Categories: community democracy, democratic participation, election 2017, Left, poverty
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    Mary St George writes about participatory democracy in this year’s election and the new twitter chat #LeftwithEnough.

  13. State of emergency on the South Island’s east coast

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:43 pm, July 21st, 2017 -  23 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, Environment
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    Evacuations are now happening throughout Otago and Canterbury, with more rain expected over night and into Saturday.

  14. NZ’s climate change guinea pigs

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:10 pm, July 21st, 2017 -  56 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, Economy, Environment, housing
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    The first round of climate change pass-the-parcel is about to knock some players out of the property investment game. The rest of NZ should be paying attention.

  15. The Catholic Church is urging its parishoners to vote

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:15 am, July 21st, 2017 -  29 comments
    Categories: abortion, Conservation, crime, Deep stuff, democratic participation, election 2017, Environment, Ethics, families, housing, human rights, Left, Maori Issues, Politics, poverty, prisons, racism, religion, sustainability
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    The catholic bishops of Aotearoa have released a pamphlet urging parishoners to vote. And apart from conservative positions on euthenasia and drug liberalisation the policies they support have a decidedly progressive bent.

  16. Election 2017: the battle lines are drawn

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:57 am, July 17th, 2017 -  77 comments
    Categories: class, climate change, don brash, Donald Trump, election 2017, greens, Jeremy Corbyn, labour, making shit up, marama fox, Media, national, nz first, Politics, polls, same old national, Shane Jones, winston peters
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    The 2017 election campaign has been set alight by the Greens adopting brave policies that Jeremy Corbyn would be proud of and NZ First adopting policies that would meet with Donald Trump’s approval.

  17. James Shaw Speech to the Green’s conference – Greening the Government

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:21 pm, July 15th, 2017 -  25 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, ETS, global warming, greens, james shaw, Politics
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    The text of James Shaw’s speech to the Greens Conference focussing on the Green’s policy response to Climate Change.

  18. Thiel shows commitment to New Zealand by spending 12 days in it

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:52 pm, June 29th, 2017 -  49 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, national, Politics, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Following an intervention by the Ombudsman the Government has been obliged to disclose the number of days that Peter Thiel spent in New Zealand in the five years leading up to his grant of citizenship.  The answer is very few.

  19. Sarah v govt climate litigation – perspectives from court

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:30 am, June 28th, 2017 -  19 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, Environment
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    What to do when your future’s at risk and your government doesn’t care. 

     

     

  20. Police have reopened the Barclay investigation

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:16 am, June 27th, 2017 -  129 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, national
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    Police has commenced a re-investigation of allegations that the private communications of an individual were intercepted by Mr Todd Barclay MP.

  21. National Ltd™ – Rotten To The Core From Top To Bottom

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:25 am, June 26th, 2017 -  25 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    . . . And we have this state of affairs because John Key and now Bill English, in concert with the rest of the National Ltd™ crew, have been lying to us every day for the past nine years . . .

  22. Kiwis send a message to Tillerson

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:19 am, June 7th, 2017 -  27 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change, us politics
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    As Patrick Gower puts it, “English tries to hide from the reality of Trump’s America”. Fortunately ordinary Kiwis were not so supine.

  23. UK’s hung parliament?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:06 am, June 1st, 2017 -  131 comments
    Categories: uk politics
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    The Tories’ supposed landslide trickles to a halt.

  24. Tipping vs fair wages

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:46 am, May 24th, 2017 -  39 comments
    Categories: class war, paula bennett, wages
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    I don’t know of a single piece written in support of Bennett’s proposal. She has been in the bubble too long, and lost touch with the values of NZ.

  25. The UK elections – Has Labour got the big mo?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:58 am, May 21st, 2017 -  66 comments
    Categories: campaigning, Deep stuff, elections, International, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, uk politics
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    And in the United Kingdom the election that was meant to be a foregone conclusion suddenly is suddenly tightening.

  26. New Zealand’s Neoliberal Drift

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:23 pm, May 20th, 2017 -  85 comments
    Categories: Economy
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    In New Zealand, neoliberal reforms have widened inequality and undermined the country’s self-image as an egalitarian paradise.

  27. Campbell on the TPP cargo cult

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:22 am, May 20th, 2017 -  17 comments
    Categories: bill english, capitalism, International, trade
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    Gordon Campbell: “The TPP has literally become a cargo cult ritual that’s being performed in the hope that someday, one day, the Americans will return, bearing gifts.”

  28. Four eyes and an arsehole

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:06 am, May 17th, 2017 -  40 comments
    Categories: International, us politics, war
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    NZ with its various operations around this end of the Pacific really doesn’t need its own intelligence gathering operations blown by the current incompetent blowhard of the White House. Nor does anyone else who shares information with the US. That is the problem with Trump childishly boasting about the intelligence gathered by others merely to boost his ego.

  29. Macron and Trudeau mean yes for Ardern

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:21 am, May 8th, 2017 -  96 comments
    Categories: election 2017, Europe, International, jacinda ardern, labour, Media, Politics
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    The election of Trudeau in Canada and Macron in France suggest that the path to electoral success may be with younger fresh faced and untainted candidates.

  30. Stewart: “Dying days of democracy”?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:11 pm, April 27th, 2017 -  59 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, democratic participation
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    Probably not, but after 9 years of Brighter Future / Dirty Politics it certainly can feel that way.

  31. Duck and Cover

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:00 am, April 16th, 2017 -  89 comments
    Categories: afghanistan, International, us politics, war
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    Donald Trump is engaged in some over the top brinkmanship with North Korea which is increasing the prospects of at least a limited exchange of nuclear weapons.

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