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  1. Caution: Taking polling at face value may induce political whiplash

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 10:07 am, July 31st, 2017 -  114 comments
    Categories: election 2017, MMP, polls
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    With all the speculation about polls, it’s time to have a discussion about polling and the cold, hard facts around it. Is it good news for the left?

  2. Climate Change actions for the middle classes

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 1:05 pm, July 28th, 2017 -  33 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change, Environment, sustainability
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    It’s time to put our money and resources where our hearts and minds and values are.

  3. Raging at Metiria is not about the fraud – it’s that she sided with the lepers

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:01 am, July 27th, 2017 -  324 comments
    Categories: activism, benefits, class war, election 2017, greens, Maori Issues, Metiria Turei, racism, welfare
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    Graham Cameron cuts through the obsession over fraud to the cultural values of the last 30 years and the fear beneath.

  4. National will distort MMP for its own benefit, again

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:02 pm, July 26th, 2017 -  80 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, act, bill english, MMP, national, peter dunne, Politics, same old national, united future
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    Without a cup of tea in sight National has announced that it will asking supporters to vote for Act leader David Seymour in Epsom and United Future leader Peter Dunne in Ohariu.

  5. The truth behind job numbers

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:04 am, July 25th, 2017 -  25 comments
    Categories: class war, economy, jobs, quality of life, wages, workers' rights
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    Bruce Munro’s excellent piece in the ODT, looks in to the truth behind the Nats’ job numbers: “It does not take much digging in Statistics New Zealand’s latest Household Labour Force Survey to uncover a growing world of low-paid work, insufficient working hours, financial struggles and unfulfilled lives”.

  6. Election 2017: the battle lines are drawn

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:57 am, July 17th, 2017 -  77 comments
    Categories: class, climate change, don brash, Donald Trump, election 2017, greens, Jeremy Corbyn, labour, making shit up, marama fox, Media, national, nz first, Politics, polls, same old national, Shane Jones, winston peters
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    The 2017 election campaign has been set alight by the Greens adopting brave policies that Jeremy Corbyn would be proud of and NZ First adopting policies that would meet with Donald Trump’s approval.

  7. National’s brighter future

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, July 16th, 2017 -  11 comments
    Categories: grant robertson, housing, national, paula bennett, Politics, same old national
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    The homeless crisis is getting that bad in Auckland that people are dying because they have nowhere to live.

  8. James Shaw Speech to the Green’s conference – Greening the Government

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:21 pm, July 15th, 2017 -  25 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, ETS, global warming, greens, james shaw, Politics
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    The text of James Shaw’s speech to the Greens Conference focussing on the Green’s policy response to Climate Change.

  9. Green perspectives on the Point England land appropriation

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:59 am, June 13th, 2017 -  64 comments
    Categories: Conservation, Environment, greens, Maori Issues
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    Modern Day Land Grab or Treaty Settlement?

  10. The Freshwater Rescue Plan

    Written By:  Water Watch -  Date published: 8:17 am, June 10th, 2017 -  12 comments
    Categories: Conservation, disaster, Economy, election 2017, Environment, farming, Maori Issues, sustainability, water
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    Seven steps to reclaiming our lakes, rivers, streams and aquifers.

  11. Trying to wedge the Greens

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, June 7th, 2017 -  120 comments
    Categories: election 2017, greens, labour
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    The political right try it on every election year, in an attempt to sow a bit of discord. I expect this sort of obvious and clumsy wedge politics from Hooton and the like, but I was a bit surprised to see Duncan Garner having a go.

  12. Tax cuts and 1600 deaths per year

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 2:53 pm, May 31st, 2017 -  16 comments
    Categories: budget 2017, class war, health, housing, national
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    One of the nasty little fishhooks in the budget was the cutting of the home insulation scheme (Warm Up New Zealand). The scheme had a benefit-cost ratio of $6 for every $1 invested. Around 1,600 people die in NZ a year of cold-related factors. Hope the tax cuts are worth it eh?

  13. Green Party List announced

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:18 am, May 31st, 2017 -  21 comments
    Categories: democratic participation, election 2017, greens, Politics
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    Climate change, human rights, indigenous rights, Māori and Pasifika, and fresh, young  faces on the 2017 Green Party List.

  14. The Greens and voting on the Budget

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:45 am, May 29th, 2017 -  150 comments
    Categories: budget 2017, class war, Economy, election 2017, greens, Politics
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    Wondering about what the Greens are voting for? It might not be what you think.

  15. White middle class male privilege

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:07 am, May 27th, 2017 -  19 comments
    Categories: class war, election 2017, labour, Politics
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    Rohan Lord this week pulled out from being a Labour candidate because he thought his prospects of being elected were remote because he was a white middle class male.  His comments displayed a complete lack of understanding of how the Labour Party works and ignores the fact that having a truly representative caucus is a virtue.

  16. Roy Morgan poll (please no not Winston)

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:47 am, May 27th, 2017 -  61 comments
    Categories: election 2017, polls
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    The chronically erratic Roy Morgan poll is out again, with Nat vs Lab/Green in a dead heat.

  17. New Zealand’s Neoliberal Drift

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:23 pm, May 20th, 2017 -  85 comments
    Categories: Economy
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    In New Zealand, neoliberal reforms have widened inequality and undermined the country’s self-image as an egalitarian paradise.

  18. Alfred Ngaro reprimanded for being “naïve”

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:54 am, May 15th, 2017 -  53 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, censorship, community democracy, democracy under attack, national, Politics, same old national, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Alfred Ngaro has apologised to the Prime Minister for threatening the funding of voluntary organisations critical of the Government, not for expressing the views or even thinking them but for being naïve.

  19. Andrew Little’s speech – the next four and a half months are a fight for a better New Zealand

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 1:49 pm, May 14th, 2017 -  93 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, election 2017, labour, Politics
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    The text of Andrew Little’s speech delivered today to the Labour Party congress.

  20. National threatens Government critics with loss of Government contracts

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:31 am, May 14th, 2017 -  78 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, democracy under attack, national, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Alfred Ngaro has told a National Conference that critics of the Government can expect to lose Government support for proposed contracts.  And that Labour prompted concern about families living in cars.

  21. Fuck the homeless

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:11 am, May 6th, 2017 -  187 comments
    Categories: bill english, housing, national, useless, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Those compassionate conservatives of the National Party have a message for the increasing number of homeless who occupy our Brighter Future.

  22. Labour’s list – diversity and renewal

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:01 am, May 3rd, 2017 -  112 comments
    Categories: election 2017, labour
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    Labour has delivered a list of diversity and renewal. Good to see it getting the recognition it deserves.

  23. Anzac Day

    Written By:  KJT -  Date published: 3:36 pm, April 26th, 2017 -  15 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war, debt / deficit, Economy, employment, war
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    Am I the only one who is upset, over mealy mouthed politicians making flowery speeches saying “We will remember them”

    when they manifestly don’t.

  24. RNZ: The 9th floor – Bolger

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:47 am, April 21st, 2017 -  12 comments
    Categories: class war, history, journalism
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    “He says neo-liberalism has failed and suggests unions should have a stronger voice. He says Treaty of Waitangi settlements may not be full and final and that Māori language tuition should be compulsory in primary schools.”

  25. What does National do about English?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:45 am, March 27th, 2017 -  51 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, bill english, election 2017, jacinda ardern, john key, labour, national, Politics, same old national
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    John Key has claimed that the transfer of power from himself to Bill English was flawless and designed to ensure continuation of National’s rule.  Based on the last couple of opinion poll results he should reconsider his optimism.

  26. Climate Change and Us

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 4:02 pm, March 21st, 2017 -  4 comments
    Categories: climate change, energy, Environment, farming, global warming, science
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    3 major environmental reports today – the OECD says our economy is beyond environmental limits; a cross party group of MPs sponsor research into the way to net zero emissions; and the World Meteorological Organisation has a stark look at continued climate change.

  27. National’s water problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:03 am, March 21st, 2017 -  48 comments
    Categories: bill english, Conservation, Economy, Environment, farming, Maori Issues, national, Politics, same old national, treaty settlements, water
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    The Government’s timid backdown on water charging is placing it in a very uncomfortable position.

  28. National’s flawed RMA ripoff still failing

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:22 am, March 15th, 2017 -  13 comments
    Categories: housing, im/migration, local government, maori party, marama fox, national, nick smith, same old national
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    Maori Party Co-Leader, Marama Fox, is playing hardball over Nick Smith latest attempts to weasel out of commitments on the deeply flawed RMA changes that National has spent the last few years trying to find any support for in Parliament. The bill is crap. The Maori party should just drop it regardless how many baubles they think they will get from it.

  29. Nick Smith is a disgrace

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:00 pm, March 14th, 2017 -  32 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Environment, national, Parliament, Politics, same old national, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    In a functioning democracy Nick Smith’s handling of the Resource Management Bill should result in him losing his ministerial warrant.

  30. International Women’s Day, 47 years on, how far have we come?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:22 pm, March 8th, 2017 -  50 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, feminism
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    Test of a speech given by feminist icon Sandra Coney on the state of the feminist movement in 2017

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