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  1. Begone, capitalism! You don’t own me

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 7:39 am, October 25th, 2017 -  73 comments
    Categories: capitalism, community democracy, Deep stuff, democratic participation, Economy, political alternatives, Privatisation, vision
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    Do we want to be owned by capitalism and stay in its trap of wage and debt slavery, or do we want to boldly go to post-capitalism, whatever that might be.

  2. Labour Green confidence and supply agreement released

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:40 pm, October 24th, 2017 -  28 comments
    Categories: election 2017, greens, labour, Politics
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    The text of the Labour Green confidence and supply agreement has been reached.

  3. Labour – NZFirst deal details announced

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:54 pm, October 24th, 2017 -  60 comments
    Categories: election 2017, elections, labour, nz first, Politics
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    Details of the Labour – NZ First coalition agreement have just been announced.

  4. The new cabinet

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:03 am, October 24th, 2017 -  78 comments
    Categories: david parker, election 2017, grant robertson, greens, jacinda ardern, james shaw, Kelvin Davis, labour, Media, Nanaia Mahuta, nz first, Politics, winston peters
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    Details about how the next Cabinet may be made up are emerging. Winston Peters may regain the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as being Deputy Prime Minister.

  5. Reflections of a retired blogger

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 4:34 pm, October 23rd, 2017 -  67 comments
    Categories: blogs, The Standard
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    Time for me to step down as a writer here. A closing ramble, proceed at your own risk…

  6. We have a Government

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:37 pm, October 19th, 2017 -  26 comments
    Categories: election 2017, First Past the Post, greens, labour, MMP, nz first
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    NZ First have chosen to support Labour to form the next government of NZ and have secured a coalition deal. The Greens are in the process of making a decision about a Confidence and Supply deal before they make an announcement. Matthew Whitehead writes about what the options are and how Confidence and Supply agreements can work.

  7. Today is a win-win with Winston

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:48 am, October 19th, 2017 -  103 comments
    Categories: accountability, act, election 2017, electoral systems, First Past the Post, greens, jacinda ardern, labour, MMP, national, nz first, political parties, Politics, same old national, united future, winston peters
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    It appears that Winston is about to announce the decision of the NZ First party about their coalition partner today. For those who seem to think that coalitions should be formed with rapidity, they simply shouldn’t. That is the path to making stupid decisions, and I am yet to hear a single good reason to do it.

  8. This is the day *

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:15 am, October 16th, 2017 -  120 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, election 2017, greens, labour, national, nz first, Politics, winston peters
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    * but delays are possible.

  9. Why Labour may form the next Government

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:39 am, October 8th, 2017 -  173 comments
    Categories: election 2017, greens, jacinda ardern, journalism, labour, national, newspapers, nz first, same old national, winston peters
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    The prospects of a Labour led Government have improved dramatically following the release of the final election results.

  10. On that stupid coalition deal…

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:07 am, September 30th, 2017 -  101 comments
    Categories: election 2017, greens, labour, national, nz first
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    A possible National/Green coalition deal? Matthew Whitehead discusses why and why not from a Green perspective.

  11. Peters campaigned against the Nats – his party wants him to do the right thing

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, September 27th, 2017 -  170 comments
    Categories: democratic participation, election 2017, national, same old national, winston peters
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    Peters campaigned hard against the Nats, and for a change in government (check out the speech and video). To keep faith with democracy and with his party members he has to go with Labour Green (check out the feedback and polls). If Peters goes the other way NZF will implode.

  12. No Right Turn: The only way is Winston

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:02 pm, September 25th, 2017 -  45 comments
    Categories: election 2017, MMP, nz first, winston peters
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    “Its not going to be a comfortable term. But it will probably be an exciting one.”

  13. Where to now for the Greens?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:55 am, September 24th, 2017 -  153 comments
    Categories: election 2017, electoral commission, greens, james shaw, labour, MMP, nz first
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    Some post election thoughts on what James Shaw said last night, what the post-election options are, and that given the Left got a possible reprieve not an outright win, what are we going to do next?

  14. Election night coverage

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 1:18 pm, September 23rd, 2017 -  13 comments
    Categories: democratic participation, election 2017, journalism, Media, news, radio, The Standard, youtube
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    Some places for lefties to follow the counting and take part in the talking.

  15. van Beynen on the changing of the guard

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:31 am, September 16th, 2017 -  6 comments
    Categories: election 2017, labour
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    Martin van Beynen has been touring the country: “I think Jacinda Ardern is going to win the election or at least get more of the party vote than National. And even if I am wrong about that, the ground has still shifted and what she represents is in the ascendant. If not this time, it will be the next.”

  16. Our Nation’s Stolen Generation Moment

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 8:26 am, September 16th, 2017 -  8 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, greens, jacinda ardern, labour, national, national/act government, Politics, poverty, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, tv
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    A guest post by @invisiphilia on the recent Mahinarangi Forbes interview on the Hui on the abuse of children in foster care and why the Government is wrong in refusing to have a proper independent inquiry into what went wrong.

  17. Roy Morgan – shows the Nats have been targeting the wrong place

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:59 pm, September 15th, 2017 -  98 comments
    Categories: Politics
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    With the usual inane commentary from our aussie cousins, we get the final Roy Morgan poll. It shows Labour + Greens at 60 seats and with choice of partners to take them over 60 seats. It shows National at 50 seats and requiring NZ First + the Maori Party and Nationals servile parties to get […]

  18. National intends to sell another strategic asset

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:13 pm, September 14th, 2017 -  37 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, assets, Economy, election 2017, farming
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    National again intends to sell off publicly owned assets for its own ideological reasons. This time it’s Landcorp farms, thus depriving the government of another avenue for leading the way on environmental protection for farmers and climate change action.

  19. If you walked away from the Greens, it’s time to come back

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:15 am, September 12th, 2017 -  111 comments
    Categories: election 2017, greens
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    Graham Cameron from First We Take Manhattan writes about the importance of voting Green this election in order to change the government and green the government.

  20. Speaking of mothers

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 1:28 pm, September 5th, 2017 -  31 comments
    Categories: benefits, Economy, feminism, greens, welfare
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    There’s a direct relationship between how badly we treat mothers and how much we exalt neoliberalism.

  21. Review: Loading Docs

    Written By:  Lyn -  Date published: 6:30 am, August 29th, 2017 -  5 comments
    Categories: video
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    These three-minute documentaries focus on ‘diversity’, which is probably not a bad thing to ponder in the run up to an election.

  22. Political Statues

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 12:16 pm, August 25th, 2017 -  42 comments
    Categories: colonialism, Deep stuff, International, racism, us politics, war
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    America is experiencing difficulties because of the celebration by the right of statutes of their racist heroes.  Why does New Zealand not have this problem?

  23. Armstrong: The tide going out on National

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:03 am, August 24th, 2017 -  189 comments
    Categories: election 2017, labour, national
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    John Armstrong writes on the tide going out on National, and the big swing towards Labour in Ohariu.

  24. Why Gareth Morgan’s sexist personality matters

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:12 am, August 21st, 2017 -  123 comments
    Categories: sexism, you couldn't make this shit up
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    It’s not just policy that is important. The fight of this election is over values and whether people matter too.

  25. Jacinda’s campaign launch speech

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:17 pm, August 20th, 2017 -  111 comments
    Categories: election 2017, jacinda ardern, labour
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    The text of Jacinda Ardern’s campaign speech delivered today.

  26. That 5% threshold and recent polling

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:09 pm, August 18th, 2017 -  87 comments
    Categories: election 2017, greens, MMP, polls
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    Matthew Whitehead on MMP and the threshold, along with some commentary on the current polling situation.

  27. NRT: National resorts to racism on water

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:15 am, August 15th, 2017 -  5 comments
    Categories: national, racism, useless, water
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    I/S at No Right Turn: ”
    This isn’t a “Pandora’s box”. The model for an easy, full and final settlement to resolve this exists, and iwi are keen. What is lacking is goodwill from the government to sign it. And Finlayson knows all this – so he is actively trying to mislead the New Zealand public about it, trying to appeal to the racism of rednecks in order to protect the stolen “rights” of a privileged few”.

  28. The Greens: solidarity and resistance

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:30 am, August 13th, 2017 -  102 comments
    Categories: election 2017, greens
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    Ahead of the Green Party’s election campaign relaunch this afternoon, let’s get a few things straight about who and what the Green Party is.

  29. Green Party campaign relaunch 1.30pm Sunday

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:20 am, August 13th, 2017 -  28 comments
    Categories: campaigning, election 2017, greens
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    The Green party resets its election campaign.

  30. It is National’s time for the brown trousers

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:26 pm, August 9th, 2017 -  92 comments
    Categories: labour, mana, maori party, national, nz first, Politics, TOPS, united future
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    If you want to know why the right is farting so much personal smoke, take a look at the poll trends 2011, 2014, 2017. It’s not a pretty picture for the Nats.

  31. So NZ Labour wanted the Headlines.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 3:29 pm, August 1st, 2017 -  50 comments
    Categories: election 2017, elections, greens, jacinda ardern, labour, liberalism, Metiria Turei, Politics
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    Well, now they have them. But…

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