Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:04 am, August 4th, 2021 -
43 comments
Categories: david seymour, Judith Collins, national, same old national, uncategorized
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Judith Collins has decided to attack the Government on the use of the Te Reo name for New Zealand even though the last National Government regularised its use.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 12:06 pm, July 6th, 2021 -
94 comments
Categories: act, human rights, labour, making shit up, national, same old national, spin, United Nations, you couldn't make this shit up
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The debate about the Government’s consultation on proposed changes to hate speech laws continues, with the level of heat increasing, but the level of actual understanding of what is being proposed in critical shortage.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 6:05 am, June 28th, 2021 -
26 comments
Categories: climate change, public transport, transport
Tags: denis tegg, government policy statement on transport, tegg talk, Waikato, waikato regional council
Waikato Regional Council (WRC) has approved a transport plan which assigns just 3% of its 10-year budget to walking and cycling, and only 5% to public transport. This must inevitably increase overall transport emission pollution in the region. In my opinion the law requires the plan to reduce transport emissions to achieve consistency with central government transport policy. If emissions will rise under the plan this makes the plan unlawful and places WRC at significant risk of a successful legal challenge.
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 9:43 am, June 26th, 2021 -
206 comments
Categories: human rights, International, labour, uncategorized, United Nations
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Hate speech is about to get a lot more criminalised with much stronger penalties. It’s worth going back to what the Royal Commission actually considered, since that’s the basis of proposing this law. The Royal Commission in fact found that trying to protect religion from very strong opinions is simply not a good idea: … we acknowledge that there […]
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:31 am, June 24th, 2021 -
67 comments
Categories: Judith Collins, leadership, national, same old national, todd muller
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Yesterday National suffered further damage to its ranks when Harete Hipango was outed as the MP with Parliamentary Services resources issues and Todd Muller announced that he will stand down as an MP at the end of this term nominally so that he can eventually spend more time with his family.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:56 am, June 21st, 2021 -
30 comments
Categories: climate change, Culture wars, global warming, Judith Collins, Maori Issues, national, nz first, winston peters
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For the first time since the election Winston Peters has reemerged. But instead of talking about the country’s problems such as climate change, child poverty and recovering from the global pandemic he chose to concentrate on the “over” use of Te Reo, cycleways and gangs.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 11:12 am, June 6th, 2021 -
5 comments
Categories: australian politics, China, Economy, Free Trade, International, jacinda ardern, trade, us politics
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This week has seen the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to suggest that Australia is adopting a principled stand and New Zealand has sold its soul to China for trade. But the comments by Morrison and Ardern made after their Queenstown meeting suggests the opposite.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:58 am, June 1st, 2021 -
48 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, national, nick smith, religion, same old national
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Nick Smith is leaving Parliament not only to spend more time with his family but also because details of an employment dispute started after he yelled at a junior staffer were leaked.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:23 am, May 25th, 2021 -
39 comments
Categories: Budget 2021, Carmel Sepuloni, jacinda ardern, labour, Maori Issues, Maori seats, national, Pacific, peter dunne
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This is day five of the post Ruthenasia era and the response from the right is really underwhelming. The most notable response is a comment by Peter Dunne questioning whether 11 year olds are ever interested in politics.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:03 am, May 21st, 2021 -
61 comments
Categories: Austerity, budget 2021, grant robertson, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, national, same old national, treasury
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National presented a particularly glum picture in Parliament yesterday. And it was not only the realisation that Judith Collins is out of her depth. It was because this budget spells the end of Ruthenasia.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:33 am, April 29th, 2021 -
20 comments
Categories: election 2020, Judith Collins, national, politicans, same old national
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It was only a matter of time. Tova O’Brien at Newshub has been leaked a copy of the abridged version of the National Party election review.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:44 am, April 22nd, 2021 -
86 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, health, health and safety, Judith Collins, minimum wage, national, Parliament, religion, same old national, Simon Bridges, wages, workers' rights
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Yesterday was a day where National focussed on dog whistle racism, supported religious extremists and moaned about workers receiving a modest increase in the minimum wage.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 6:15 am, April 11th, 2021 -
30 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, food, sustainability
Tags: food forests, forest, forest gardening, Riverton, robert guyton forest gardener, robyn guyton
The Guytons’ 25 year old food forest in Riverton is a showcase of sustainability practice and knowledge.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 7:57 pm, April 6th, 2021 -
10 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, labour
Tags: kiri allen
Kiri Allen has announced that she is receiving treatment for stage three cervical cancer.
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 3:24 pm, March 31st, 2021 -
50 comments
Categories: blogs, uncategorized, Unions, workers' rights
Tags: chris trotter
Chris Trotter recently asked the question about why there isn’t more resistance to the degree of inequality that we face in New Zealand. He’s partially right, we do spend an awfully amount of time arguing with each other about matters of smaller and smaller moment while inequality slides downhill from glacier to avalanche. But intersectionalism isn’t the primary cause of activist cooling.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:48 am, March 30th, 2021 -
42 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, Judith Collins, national, Parliament, same old national, uncategorized
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Chris Luxon’s maiden speech last week and another example of multiple leaks of details of a caucus meeting highlight how precarious Judith Collins’ tenure as National Party leader is. But does someone have the numbers to replace her?
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:40 am, February 23rd, 2021 -
77 comments
Categories: debt / deficit, Economy, grant robertson, jacinda ardern, poverty
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In recent news Standard and Poors has improved New Zealand’s credit rating because of its success in handling Covid, and a vast majority of kiwis support the Goverment increasing income support for those on low wages or not in paid work. The Government has the budget space and the majority’s backing to do something about poverty.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 10:17 am, February 17th, 2021 -
107 comments
Categories: child welfare, climate change, greens, labour, poverty
Tags: Climate Change Comission
The first New Zealand study to look at the effects of food hardship on pre-schoolers’ nutrition has found that nearly half of families struggle to access healthy food in their child’s first year of life.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:29 am, February 12th, 2021 -
24 comments
Categories: national, Parliament, same old national
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Without a hint of embarrassment National associated entities yesterday criticised Trevor Mallard’s decision to loosen tie wearing requirements as a lowering of standards while at the same time circulating a heavily doctored video in an attack on Labour MP Anna Lorck.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:29 am, February 10th, 2021 -
90 comments
Categories: maori party, Parliament, twitter
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Not wearing a tie in Parliament is a weird issue for the Maori Party to get ready to die in a ditch about. But the rules should be changed.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 6:03 am, January 15th, 2021 -
111 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, us politics
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Billy Te Kahika
Alexandria Oacasio-Cortez burns in the aftermath of the Capitol attacks, and the left in New Zealand seems content to ridicule our own people radicalising to the alt-right.
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