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  1. People vs Oil: activists are occupying the OMV support vessel

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:21 am, November 24th, 2019 -  53 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    “That feeling when you’re so fkn over @omv fuelling the #climatecrisis and risking the lives of millions of people that you board their oil rig support vessel to delay their drilling operations”

  2. National’s solution to poverty – make people even poorer

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:12 am, November 9th, 2019 -  24 comments
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    National MP Jo Hayes has advocated for the reduction of poverty levels by making poor people even poorer.

  3. Remembering the 5th of November and Parihaka

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:44 pm, November 5th, 2019 -  9 comments
    Categories: Maori Issues
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    “For Taranaki Māori, 5 November 1881 is known as ‘Te Rā o te Pāhua’ or ‘The Day of Plunder’.”

  4. National attacks Labour for not cleaning up National’s mental health crisis quickly enough

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:30 am, September 9th, 2019 -  37 comments
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    National has complained that the Government is not fixing up the problems with the Mental Health system created by National quickly enough.

  5. Te Whare Pounamu – Are Children Really Safe?

    Written By:  koreropono -  Date published: 10:52 am, September 4th, 2019 -  7 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, child abuse, child welfare, culture, domestic violence, Ethics, Media, news, Social issues, violence against women
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    How seriously do Women’s Refuge, the Ministry of Social Development and Te Whare Pounamu management take child abuse concerns? This requires greater scrutiny. 

  6. Te Whare Pounamu #1

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 9:21 am, September 2nd, 2019 -  17 comments
    Categories: child welfare, culture, domestic violence, Ethics, families, Social issues
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    When an organisation that exists to help abused people, itself abuses people, I suspect many people will have a lot to say. Here’s my initial take.

  7. Fertile land is priceless

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:45 am, August 15th, 2019 -  220 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, food, housing, sustainability
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    As Labour moves to protect prime food growing land around our cities, we should be having a wider discussion about food security in New Zealand.

  8. Arnhem Land and Ihumātao

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:28 am, August 5th, 2019 -  44 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, australian politics, Maori Issues
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    A Recent High Court decision in Australia suggests that protection of indigenous land rights may be better than we think.

  9. Can the Greens rise like the liberal democrats?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:56 am, August 4th, 2019 -  71 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, greens, james shaw, sustainability, uk politics, uncategorized
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    Only 6 months ago the UK Liberal Democrat party was at a real low, with their leader resigning and the polls about 7%: same as the last five years.  Fast forward five months from that and they are ready to become a major opposition party of opposition.  Can the Greens do the same?

  10. The unbelievable lightness of Simon Bridges

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:49 am, July 31st, 2019 -  31 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges has insulted women and Tokelauans at the same time with a thinly veiled attack on Jacinda Ardern.

  11. Ihumātao

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:32 am, July 31st, 2019 -  119 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, national, nick smith, uncategorized
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    The background to the Ihumatao dispute is complex and problematic and resolving it may require the Government to review issues relating to privately held land and treaty claims.

  12. A Good Week for Conservation

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:26 am, July 15th, 2019 -  10 comments
    Categories: Conservation, Environment, greens
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    Three big, bold moves for conserving nature and expanding our awareness of it were announced inn the last week. All of them led by Minister Eugenie Sage.

  13. Religion and the threshold

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:13 am, May 24th, 2019 -  59 comments
    Categories: national, political alternatives, political parties, Politics, same old national, Social issues, uncategorized
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    It has been pretty boring watching the coverage of religious conservatives trying to present a meaningful political presence for the next election. Haven’t the NZ Herald’s puff piece journalists ever read about the history of religious parties in this “no religion” state? They’re fractional parties incapable of getting to 5% without assistance, and they don’t grow the vote for the right.

  14. The hard change of forestry

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:41 am, May 18th, 2019 -  98 comments
    Categories: climate change, Conservation, Economy, employment, Environment, ETS, farming, farming, global warming, health and safety, nz first, Politics, quality of life, Shane Jones, sustainability, unemployment, workers' rights
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    Forestry is forcing an important tilting point between mitigating climate change and land use, and it’s going to affect the viability of some North Island towns.

  15. Kiwi Cultural Cringe is Alive and Well

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 4:00 pm, April 22nd, 2019 -  75 comments
    Categories: Christchurch Attack, climate change, colonialism, culture, Deep stuff, Economy, Environment, exports, heritage, identity, jacinda ardern, leadership, overseas investment, tourism, trade
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    New Zealand is too small for high-achievers and star-performers and does not offer enough challenges and rewards.

  16. Nat MP Nuk Karako Quits

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 1:58 pm, April 15th, 2019 -  19 comments
    Categories: politicans, Politics
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    Nat List MP Nuk Karako has unexpectedly announced his retirement, effective next month.

  17. WTF Free Speech coalition?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:54 am, March 26th, 2019 -  564 comments
    Categories: censorship, Christchurch Attack, Deep stuff, don brash, internet, interweb, Politics, Propaganda, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Free Speech coalition has attacked the Chief Censor’s decision to rule the Christchurch Mosque killer’s manifesto as objectionable as an attack on free speech.  But the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties has characterised the Censor’s decision as being entirely conventional.

  18. The Green’s electoral law reform petition

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:47 am, March 4th, 2019 -  389 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democracy under attack, democratic participation, electoral systems, greens, labour, making shit up, Media, MMP, national, Politics, referendum, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    The Green Party’s launching of a petition to seek changes to the electoral system has met with some Trumpian style rhetoric from the right.

  19. Tamihere has some strange friends

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:02 am, February 26th, 2019 -  20 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, Dirty Politics, john tamihere, local body elections, local government, supercity, taxpayers union
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    John Tamihere has been endorsed by Jordan Williams for Auckland’s mayoralty. And his campaign has commissioned the Taxpayers Union to do a cost cutting exercise.

  20. The Tax Working Group proposals

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:38 pm, February 21st, 2019 -  339 comments
    Categories: capital gains, greens, labour, national, tax
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    The Tax Party working group’s recommendations have been released.

  21. Roy morgan 11/02/2019: 63.2% chance outright labour govt, 36.8% chance labour-green coalition

    Pollwatch: 11/02/2019

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 10:12 pm, February 12th, 2019 -  18 comments
    Categories: act, Amy Adams, greens, labour, maori party, national, new conservatives, Nikki Kaye, nz first, polls, Simon Bridges
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    Kia ora koutou readers, and welcome back to the first Pollwatch of 2019, and as our official Worst News™ will tell you, (okay, maybe that’s my opinion of their recent coverage rather than an official thing) it’s a doozy. Part of the reason I started modelling elections probabilistically myself is that looking at just the […]

  22. Ardern’s state of the nation speech

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:15 am, February 8th, 2019 -  56 comments
    Categories: Economy, jacinda ardern, labour, Politics, tax, trade
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    The text of Jacinda Ardern’s speech delivered this morning.

  23. Should teaching about the Treaty of Waitangi be compulsory?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:19 pm, February 7th, 2019 -  226 comments
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    It was sure refreshing to see the current head of the National Party saying on Waitangi Day that teaching of New Zealand history should be compulsory in the New Zealand curriculum.

  24. Stuff is now an official mouthpiece of the National Party

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:03 am, January 24th, 2019 -  47 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, journalism, Media, national, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized
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    Mark Mitchell is an early contender for most stupid utterance by a politician this year. And Stuff has packaged up his utterance and uncritically made it a headline.

  25. Peters to Pence on the Pacific – a return to colonialism?

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 9:38 pm, January 14th, 2019 -  120 comments
    Categories: China, colonialism, defence, Free Trade, jacinda ardern, Japan, military, pasifika, trade, us politics, winston peters
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    Winston Peters went to Washington last December to see US VP Mike Pence and invited the US to engage more in the South-West Pacific without informing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Patrick Smellie described this apparent oversight as “deeply worrying.” Even more worrying is what Peters said when he was there.

  26. David Seymour can’t handle criticism

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:21 am, January 14th, 2019 -  112 comments
    Categories: act, child welfare, david seymour, education, schools, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    ACT MP David Seymour has lashed out on Facebook at Dianne Khan apparently for successfully fact checking him.

  27. National just wants to have some friends

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:55 am, January 6th, 2019 -  63 comments
    Categories: act, climate change, conservative party, global warming, greens, labour, making shit up, national, new conservatives, science, twitter
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    National clearly needs new friends if it is to regain power. Could the nutty New Conservatives be a possibility?

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