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  1. Another Act candidate bites the dust

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:21 am, September 11th, 2023 -  24 comments
    Categories: act, election 2023
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    At this rate Act may not have enough candidates to fill its list of MPs in Parliament.

  2. Breathable air in Walthamstow

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 2:40 am, September 9th, 2023 -  5 comments
    Categories: climate change, global warming, quality of life, sustainability, transport
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    Back with family in London after Covid’s four years, much has changed. Most notably, the air in Walthamstow is breathable. Thanks to Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan’s emission zone tax, the change is remarkable.

  3. An ACT New Zealand

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:29 pm, September 8th, 2023 -  38 comments
    Categories: act, broadcasting, david seymour, energy, housing, law, law and "order", police, uncategorized
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    What will New Zealand look like if Act forms part of the next Government?

  4. National does a big sook

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:58 am, September 5th, 2023 -  51 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, Dirty Politics, national, same old national, spin, taxpayers union, Unions, workers' rights
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    National, which perfected the art of dirty politics, and which has spent the past couple of years being relentlessly negative and which has had its sock puppets attack individual Labour MPs mercilessly is deeply, deeply, deeply upset that the CTU has pointed out to the public what a Christopher Luxon led Government would actually mean.

  5. This Election we need to talk About China

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 11:05 am, September 4th, 2023 -  70 comments
    Categories: act, China, Christopher Luxon, International, john key, national, trade, uncategorized
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    Yes we could do the next five weeks on teeth and taxes, but actually China is pulling us down and our political parties need to make it an election issue.

  6. CHL’s Tarras Airport Idea is Unbelievably Stupid

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 2:48 pm, September 1st, 2023 -  21 comments
    Categories: climate change, Economy, science, tourism
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    Queenstown Airport has over three decades generated a radial wealth local effect. The economic and social uplift has been massive. That doesn’t mean there will be similar economic benefits by building another one within just over an hours’ drive of the first one.

  7. Be afraid be very afraid – the next Government could be really strange

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:57 am, August 27th, 2023 -  55 comments
    Categories: act, Christopher Luxon, election 2023, national, nz first, same old national
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    If there was a change of Government the next Government could potentially be full of fundamentalist Christians, anti vaxers and all sorts of people whose view of Aotearoa is not conventional or reality based.

  8. Why New Zealand First Will Get Back In

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:32 am, August 17th, 2023 -  70 comments
    Categories: election 2023, International, nz first, winston peters
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    Winston’s term with Ardern shows what high-delivery, low-foolishness government looked like. That’s why he’s rising again.

  9. We Need to Talk About Blackrock

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:08 am, August 9th, 2023 -  29 comments
    Categories: climate change, Economy, energy, Environment
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    How come New Zealand got to build an entire electricity generating system that lasted for 70 years without much private capital from one massive dam to geothermal and all those pylons and substations and network systems without Blackrock?

  10. Future Green Wins Will Be Hard

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:47 am, July 25th, 2023 -  5 comments
    Categories: Conservation, Deep stuff, Economy, Environment, farming, greens
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    It does not mean they are not worth trying; it means they will be fights against entrenched power.

  11. The Greens’ election campaign launch: game on

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:05 am, July 24th, 2023 -  66 comments
    Categories: election 2023, greens, james shaw
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    “No party who wants to work with us after 14th October should ever take our support for granted”

    With the urgency of the climate crisis upon us, the Greens are finally willing to use the cross benches card.

  12. Why a change of Government would be a bad thing – school lunches

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:14 pm, July 14th, 2023 -  63 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, david seymour, Economy, education, politicans, poverty, tax
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    Act has declared its class prejudice by advocating for the cancellation of the free lunch in schools programme even though the benefits are clear and recognised and the programme helps poor kids’ nutrition and education.

  13. NZ’s Mission in Vilnius – “to defeat Russia.” Really?

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 10:50 pm, July 9th, 2023 -  52 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, defence, Diplomacy, Disarmament, military, Russia, Ukraine, us politics, war
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    The prime minister stated in his speech last week our objective in the war in Ukraine was to aid Ukraine “to defeat Russia.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing – that’s a declaration of nuclear World War III! Even the US neocons think its time to back off.

  14. Prime Minister Hipkins on the Trade Price of Everything

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:19 am, July 9th, 2023 -  2 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, Deep stuff, International, politicans
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    Prime Minister Chris Hipkins spoke this week on how the Government is acting to protect and advance the safety and security of New Zealand and New Zealanders while dealing with those countries that have most influence over us.

  15. The very strange election campaign

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:06 am, July 8th, 2023 -  86 comments
    Categories: climate change, crime, Economy, election 2023, Environment, housing, labour, national, political parties, prisons, same old national
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    With 98 days to go despite large parts of the electorate being very grumpy the polls are neck and neck and Labour can still win. This is what they have to do.

  16. luxon sheep

    Luxon Aeterna

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:02 am, June 16th, 2023 -  48 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, covid-19, Economy, health, law and "order", national, politicans
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    Ad reports on Christopher Luxon’s meeting in Wanaka.

  17. Our Great De-Leveraging

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 5:05 pm, June 4th, 2023 -  13 comments
    Categories: Debt, debt / deficit, economy, housing
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    Debt is the most destructive and addictive form of economic behaviour we have in New Zealand. And mortgages are New Zealand’s very high grade heroin and we are being forced to come down off a most spectacular high into a rage-inducing forced withdrawal.

  18. National’s triple backward summersault on RMA reform

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:40 am, May 30th, 2023 -  26 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, housing, national, nicola willis, same old national
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    The focus groups have spoken.  National has performed a complete reversal on the bipartisan changes to the Resource Management Act amendments designed to improve housing supply and introduced only 18 months ago.

  19. Carmel Sepuloni – bring it on

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:05 pm, May 27th, 2023 -  49 comments
    Categories: Carmel Sepuloni, labour, uncategorized
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    Carmel Sepuloni’s speech to the 2023 Labour Party Congress.

  20. Enter the Patriarchy

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 9:57 am, May 26th, 2023 -  68 comments
    Categories: feminism, patriarchy
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    Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; send him off to fish and you get a matrilineal society.

  21. National thinks tax cut good, reduction in Government charges bad

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:13 am, May 19th, 2023 -  77 comments
    Categories: budget 2023, grant robertson, health, labour, national, nicola willis, Parliament, Politics, same old national
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    National has promised to reverse the removal of prescription charges even though it has a strong policy support and is an example of the state taking less of individuals’ private wealth.

  22. National keeps making shit up

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:34 am, May 1st, 2023 -  33 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, making shit up, national, same old national, Shane Reti, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    National has been caught out misrepresenting official data by claiming that 19,000 nurses had left public health when they knew that the figure includes transfers between health boards and the number of employed nurses actually increased by 4,108.

  23. Taihoa on AUKUS Pillar 2

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 10:16 pm, April 24th, 2023 -  63 comments
    Categories: Anzac Day, australian politics, China, defence, democratic participation, iraq, tech industry, uk politics, us politics, war
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    Andrew Little says our government is willing to “explore” participating in AUKUS Pillar 2, but “foreign or local voices would not be a factor.” Our leaders will decide he says. I say “taihoa.”

  24. Three Waters becomes Affordable Water

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:32 am, April 14th, 2023 -  72 comments
    Categories: Environment, labour, local government, national, political parties, same old national, water
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    Three Waters mark two has been announced.  And Kieran McAnulty has given a text book example of clarity in political speak when making the announcement.

  25. Debating with nazis

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:34 pm, March 24th, 2023 -  278 comments
    Categories: gay rights, human rights, Politics, Social issues, uncategorized
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    So Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aka Posie Parker is coming to Aotearoa New Zealand and intends to spread her message. Wikipedia describes her as someone who “has used posters, billboards, stickers, and social media to promote anti-trans messages, and she has organized events in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia that have been protested by […]

  26. Where is the Free Speech Union when you need it?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:25 am, February 28th, 2023 -  97 comments
    Categories: act, chris hipkins, david seymour, human rights, national, spin, Unions
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    Rob Campbell is under some pressure from National and Act for calling out publicly the right’s dog whistle attacks on co governance.  But so far self appointed protector of the right to freedom of speech, the Free Speech Union, has been very quiet.  Why is this?

  27. The New Climate Denial: adaptation over mitigation

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:05 am, February 28th, 2023 -  45 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    What if unmitigated climate change is more than we can adapt to?

  28. What To Do About Climate Change

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 2:33 pm, February 25th, 2023 -  Comments Off on What To Do About Climate Change
    Categories: activism, climate change, Environment, science
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    West Auckland’s activism, through such examples as the Arc in the Park sanctuary to the Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area through to the protection of the environment provided by the South Titirangi Neighbourhood Network, provides examples of the sort of activism that may be needed if Aotearoa New Zealand is to deal properly with climate change mitigation.

  29. Sturgeon, like Ardern, a casualty of online abuse

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 7:25 am, February 21st, 2023 -  65 comments
    Categories: art, books, jacinda ardern, Media, media abuse, misogny, Nicola Sturgeon, online abuse, Politics, social media, taxpayers union
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    Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation as Scotland’s First Minister was something of a replay of Jacinda Ardern’s resignation. While subject to widespread abuse, both were reluctant to cite this as their main reason for quitting. But the abuse undoubtedly played a major role. But the misogynist trend is endemic and needs to be quelled.

  30. Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation and Scottish Independence.

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 9:19 am, February 16th, 2023 -  56 comments
    Categories: Brexit, democratic participation, jacinda ardern, Nicola Sturgeon, Politics, referendum, uk politics
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    While Sturgeon’s strong leadership and vision have helped build support for Scottish Independence, the Conservative and Unionist Party’s arrogance and self-serving incompetence in government have greatly aided her in this.