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  1. Federated Farmers – climate change “probably” exists

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:35 am, December 23rd, 2022 -  49 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, science, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Federated Farmers leader Andrew Hoggard thinks that climate change is probably happening but we will have to wait 50 to 100 years to see the effects.

  2. Three strikes law is not the answer

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:13 pm, November 29th, 2022 -  25 comments
    Categories: crime, law, law and "order", mark mitchell, national, same old national, uncategorized
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    National is proposing a return of the Three Strikes legislation, despite the Supreme Court ruling that the law went well beyond excessive punishment and would shock the conscience of properly informed New Zealanders, and was so disproportionately severe as to breach the Bill of Rights.  And despite there being no evidence that it would actually work.

  3. What Is Labour’s Purpose This Term?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:57 am, November 28th, 2022 -  35 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Economy, jacinda ardern, labour, Maori Issues, political parties, poverty
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    It is time to set out succinctly and without recourse to abstract nouns exactly what this Labour government has intended, is doing, and how it seeks to alter the country.

  4. Overblown rhetoric and Laura Norder

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:19 am, November 27th, 2022 -  69 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, crime, david seymour, jacinda ardern, labour, law, law and "order", poverty
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    This week has seen some extreme rhetoric from various quarters about who to blame for a recent senseless killing.  But news that the person arrested had recently been extradited from Australia has shown the rhetoric to be entirely misplaced.

  5. Medical gender transition in New Zealand: How common is it really?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:05 am, November 25th, 2022 -  42 comments
    Categories: Ethics, gender, health
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    Laura López decided to explore and analyse the available evidence on medical transition in New Zealand.

  6. The politics of the voting age change

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:12 pm, November 21st, 2022 -  90 comments
    Categories: act, human rights, labour, national
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    The Supreme Court has just lobbed a grenade into New Zealand politics by ruling that denying 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote was not only discrimination on the basis of age but also had not been justified and was therefore a breach of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.

  7. Can We Prepare for 2023?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:48 am, November 20th, 2022 -  69 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, economy, kiwisaver, tourism, wages, workers' rights
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    2023 is going to hit New Zealanders hard. Since the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes New Zealand has been beset by a new major crisis about once every two years. 2022 was our year off and get ready we are in for a strange and hard recession.

  8. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Pause With Map In Hand and Scratch Their Heads

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:00 am, November 13th, 2022 -  19 comments
    Categories: China, covid-19, Deep stuff, global warming, health, Politics, Russia, uncategorized, United Nations, war
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    If 2020 was the worst year in my lifetime how does 2022 compare?

  9. What happens if Twitter dies?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:37 am, November 8th, 2022 -  95 comments
    Categories: internet, Media, twitter, uncategorized
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    It seems strange to type this but Twitter may be terminal.  The social media site that has become the go to for many years for journalists, politicians and any one interested in news especially breaking news may be on its death bed.

  10. National’s relentless negativity

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:33 am, November 5th, 2022 -  86 comments
    Categories: Economy, education, housing, labour, law and "order", national, political parties, Politics, same old national, tax, unemployment, water, workers' rights
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    National’s recent press releases show that its approach to politics will be relentlessly negative, with no idea of what it will do as an alternative or how it will fund changes.

  11. Male privilege is a fragile thing

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:15 am, October 28th, 2022 -  22 comments
    Categories: act, david seymour, greens, human rights, International, political parties, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, violence against women, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Golriz Ghahraman wanted Parliament to condemn the Iranian Government’s oppression of women’s rights.  David Seymour moved to block the motion because Golriz had raised points of order against him during a previous speech.  Fancy putting your hurt feelings in front of making a statement of support and principle.

  12. Wayne Brown’s letters

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:52 am, October 20th, 2022 -  50 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, climate change, Environment, local government, public transport, supercity, transport
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    Wayne Brown (or is that Matthew Hooton) has over the past few days released a series of letters that are astonishing in their audacity.  His latest on transport proposes business as usual at a time when dramatic change is required.

     

  13. Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Chameleon

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:31 am, October 19th, 2022 -  74 comments
    Categories: by-election, election 2023, elections, jacinda ardern, labour, Parliament
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    Gaurav Sharma has announced his immediate resignation from Parliament and that he will contest the by election as leader of a new centrist party.  He also claims that the Government was going to waka jump him six months from the next election but unless National agrees this is impossible.

  14. What conflict of interest

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:58 am, October 16th, 2022 -  19 comments
    Categories: Nanaia Mahuta, national, political parties, same old national
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    National’s attacks on Nanaia Mahuta for conflicts of interest have suffered a major blow after National MP Barbara Kuriger was forced to resign her portfolios for using official letterhead to harass MPI officials.

  15. Climate change: I think that we are f&*ked

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:02 am, October 13th, 2022 -  88 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, labour, national, political parties, science
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    This week the Government announced plans to bring in a scheme for pricing farming emissions in 2025.  National’s response suggests the prospects of political consensus are non existent.

  16. We Need A Proper Constitution

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:26 am, September 20th, 2022 -  41 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democracy under attack, jacinda ardern
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    She’s in the ground and it’s time.

  17. The right’s last desperate throw of the dice in Auckland

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:50 pm, September 16th, 2022 -  18 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, efeso collins, local government, national, supercity, uncategorized
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    Even though her name is on the ballot paper and people can vote for her National aligned Mayoral candidate Viv Beck has purported to withdraw from the Auckland Mayoral race.

  18. Re-Nationalise Electricity Generators Now

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:00 am, September 8th, 2022 -  60 comments
    Categories: assets, Economy, energy, health, Privatisation, privatisation, Public Private Partnerships
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    This COVID era is the decade in which the state is back, bigger and faster than ever before. But the one area this government won’t let the state expand again is the one area in which New Zealand is the most vulnerable: electricity generation. It needs to change.

  19. Newshub’s incredibly bad gang take

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:40 am, September 6th, 2022 -  55 comments
    Categories: crime, jacinda ardern, labour, Media, national, police, social media lolz, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Yesterday the Government announced a slate of new powers designed to address gang violence.  Newshub chose that day to imply that Labour was soft on gangs because a gang member said on social media not to vote for National.

  20. National’s PR support springs into action

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:19 am, September 2nd, 2022 -  52 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, grant robertson, Hannah Tamaki, national, nicola willis, same old national
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    Yesterday National’s PR machine also known as Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB sprang into action to get the message out that National will not negotiate with Destiny Church over support.  Even though eight days previously Chris Luxon pointedly did not rule this out.

  21. About the reversed GST Kiwisaver changes

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:51 pm, August 31st, 2022 -  63 comments
    Categories: david parker, jacinda ardern, kiwisaver, politicans, spin, tax
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    National’s attack on requiring banks to charge GST on the provision of Kiwisaver services the same as smaller services is deeply cynical when its attacks on Kiwisaver in the past are considered.

  22. Not A Ripple of Difference

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:24 pm, August 19th, 2022 -  24 comments
    Categories: greens, jacinda ardern, james shaw, labour, political parties, politicans, uncategorized
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    The polls are out and the internal revolt last month to remove James Shaw as Greens co leader hasn’t made a ripple.

  23. About Gaurav Sharma

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:17 am, August 15th, 2022 -  101 comments
    Categories: employment, labour, political parties, Unions, workers' rights
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    Recent incidents involving Labour MP Gaurav Sharma are evidence of poor relationships with staff and not anything more sinister.

  24. Was This The Change We Needed?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:07 pm, August 9th, 2022 -  11 comments
    Categories: covid-19, Deep stuff, local government, Media, Politics, uncategorized, water
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    Crises that profoundly test a small developed state like New Zealand have required huge growth in state strength and policy power. But was it the change we needed?

  25. National’s culture problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:14 pm, August 8th, 2022 -  139 comments
    Categories: child discipline, Christopher Luxon, law, law and "order", national, politicans, same old national
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    National MP Sam Uffindell has today been engaged in a media wide mea culpa after allegations that he bullied a young student and was expelled from Kings College have been publicised.

  26. What New Zealanders are thinking about climate change

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 9:13 am, August 3rd, 2022 -  29 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change
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    A new Ipsos poll has some good news.

  27. Best yet in National Party splatter series in production

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 1:31 pm, July 28th, 2022 -  46 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, Dirty Politics, national, Politics, same old national
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    The kicker in Andrea Vance’s Blue Blood, her insider’s view of the splatter-movie that has been the National Party since John Key stepped down, is that the best yet is in production. She chronicles treachery that has become the modus operandi of the vacuous vipers inhabiting the caucus. Details of the dirty work induce you to turn the page for more. It doesn’t look like Luxon is the redeemer.

  28. The inside story of National’s civil war

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:24 pm, July 25th, 2022 -  16 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, bill english, brand key, Christopher Luxon, jacinda ardern, john key, Judith Collins, Media, national, national/act government, nick smith, same old national, Simon Bridges, Steven Joyce, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, todd muller, trevor mallard, uncategorized
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    Andrea Vance’s book Blood Bath provides an insider’s view of the carnage that erupted in the National Party from 2017 to 2021.  And while things have calmed down under Christopher Luxon’s his weaknesses, including his glossing over the importance of policy detail and his tendency to bag businesses has been noted.

  29. Unthinkable Renationalisation

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:02 am, July 21st, 2022 -  57 comments
    Categories: assets, climate change, Economy, energy, Environment, Europe, Privatisation, privatisation, science, uncategorized
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    Europe is leading the global fight against climate change by rapidly shifting away from fossil fuels. This now includes fully renationalising energy companies and forced decreases in gas use. What could New Zealand learn?

  30. Wear your #$%^& mask properly

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:38 am, July 16th, 2022 -  90 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, covid-19, health, national, same old national
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    Although we still compare favourably to the vast majority of Western nations in terms of our Covid response our performance has been eclipsed by Japan and Singapore, two nations which strong mask mandates and cultural norms supporting the wearing of masks.

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