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How does the left win the Auckland Mayoralty?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:08 am, October 8th, 2024 - 28 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, elections, local body elections, local government, supercity
Tags:I think the left should find a Mayoral candidate to advance progressive principles and policies. And with a muscular fight on the right there may be the opportunity for a candidate to come through the middle and win.
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National is stuffing up health
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:02 am, October 8th, 2024 - 10 comments
Categories: casey costello, Christopher Luxon, Shane Reti
Tags:The adding of extra costs to the Dunedin Hospital project to make it appear to be unaffordable, the reckless allowance for a tax cut for Philip Morris and the fudging of health figures to suggest there is a crisis all point to gross mismanagement of Health at a time when it is under stress. Is the goal privatisation?
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Inventing a crisis to privatise NZ healthcare
Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 10:41 am, October 4th, 2024 - 12 comments
Categories: chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, Dirty Politics, health, national, Privatisation, same old national, Shane Reti
Tags: Atlas Network, milton friedmanYesterday a former Health NZ Chair said the government is intentionally manufacturing a crisis to privatise healthcare. However privatisation will not solve anything and will only lead to worse financial and health outcomes for all Kiwis as confirmed by Lancet Medical Journal and case studies around the world.
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Submit as if your grandkids’ lives depend on it
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:39 am, September 30th, 2024 - 19 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags:The Government plans to smash through the reintroduction of off shore oil and gas drilling under some urgency and has given the people of New Zealand only five days to submit.
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The New Zealand left are in the worst place in a century
Written By: advantage - Date published: 11:20 am, September 23rd, 2024 - 68 comments
Categories: Chlöe Swarbrick, chris hipkins, greens, labour, maori party, marama davidson, Rawiri Waititi
Tags:New Zealand has the most right wing government it’s had since Governor George Grey determined to eradicate all Maori power by systematic war and then systematic legislative theft in 1863. But the left shows no sign of unifying.
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National plan for 2000 extra Kiwis in prison per year
Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 9:01 am, September 17th, 2024 - 20 comments
Categories: chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, crime, law and "order", paul goldsmith, same old national
Tags: Emergency Housing, statisticsThe government plans to put up to 2000 more Kiwis behind bars by 2034 at a potential cost of up to $1.2bn per budget in today’s money. Meanwhile crime, including violent crime is increasing across all of NZ.
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Attorney General’s constitutional advice on Treaty Principles bill will be interesting
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:13 am, September 12th, 2024 - 46 comments
Categories: david seymour, Judith Collins, law, Politics
Tags: attorney-general, constitutional law, royal assent, Treaty of waitangiDavid Seymour finally released some hard information about Act’s coalition bone – Treaty Principles bill. The regulatory impact statement is damning and points to the status quo as being preferable. It will provide an interesting scope for Judith Collins in her non-partisan role as Attorney-General.
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Towards the abyss
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:34 pm, September 10th, 2024 - 37 comments
Categories: act, Christopher Luxon, david seymour, labour, national, nz first, Politics, racism, racism, same old national, treaty settlements, winston peters
Tags:Yesterday it was confirmed that Act’s Treaty Principles Bill had been approved by Cabinet for drafting and introduction into Parliament in November this year. Get ready for the circus to start.
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Shane Jones is obsessed with communists
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:50 pm, September 4th, 2024 - 20 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, Judith Collins, law, law and "order", Shane Jones, winston peters
Tags:Shane Jones has been getting into the news recently after his comment that High Court Judge Cheryl Gwyn was a communist made at a private meeting was revealed in the media. He has been called out by Judith Collins and Winston Peters but surprisingly not by Christopher Luxon.
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Let’s Talk About Tax
Written By: advantage - Date published: 4:08 pm, September 2nd, 2024 - 44 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags:Yes, Labour can restore its woeful tax position.
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King Luxon Isn’t Wearing Any Clothes
Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 10:45 am, August 28th, 2024 - 26 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, local government, Maori Issues, Maori seats, simeon brown
Tags: Maori wards, ratepayersWhile Luxon and Brown hand it to the Councils, a grassroots campaign is taking effect and the power is with the people. Warning: article contains satire.
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Is Casey Costello Corrupt?
Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 3:15 pm, August 26th, 2024 - 27 comments
Categories: corruption, health, national/act government, nz first, taxpayers union, Tobacco
Tags: Associate Minister of Health, Casey Costello, tobacco excise, tobacco paper, tobacco tax cutsCasey Costello and the Coalition government have already halved tobacco excise at a cost of up to $216mn. Today RNZ reports there remain more questions on who wrote her Ministerial papers begging for tobacco industry benefits.
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Where Does Labour Rebuild?
Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:01 am, August 26th, 2024 - 48 comments
Categories: labour, maori party, political parties, Unions, workers' rights
Tags:It won’t come from the working class. But we know where it will come from.
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Roger Douglas Has a Lesson for the Left
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 12:33 pm, August 25th, 2024 - 28 comments
Categories: act, Austerity, Economy, labour, MMP, roger douglas
Tags: milton friedman, naomi klein, neo-liberalism, shock doctrine, welfare stateRoger Douglas, the most revolutionary minister in the postwar history of Aotearoa, knew how to exert change in three years. Rogernomics transformed the economy with dizzying speed, from protectionist welfare state to a neoliberal free market. Elliot Crossan argues that the left needs to take the same approach to end the era of neoliberalism.
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Culture wars are a diversion from addressing class struggles
Written By: Incognito - Date published: 2:03 pm, August 24th, 2024 - 25 comments
Categories: class war, Culture wars, labour
Tags: Kieran McAnultyDitch the NZ culture wars if we really want challenge status quo.
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So much for Localism and Devolution
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:08 am, August 22nd, 2024 - 18 comments
Categories: art, Christopher Luxon, culture, Environment, local government, simeon brown
Tags:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced that the Government will do away with Local Government’s obligations to consider the social, cultural and environmental implications of their decisions.
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Is the Treaty Principles Bill dead or has it just suffered a flesh wound?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:31 pm, August 20th, 2024 - 21 comments
Categories: act, Christopher Luxon, david seymour, Maori Issues, national, nz first, Politics, racism, Shane Jones, treaty settlements
Tags:Even though National and NZ First have ruled out supporting Act’s Treaty Principles Bill beyond the first reading David Seymour thinks that the Bill has a chance of succeeding and wishes to proceed with introduction of the bill.
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Is a Transformational Left-Wing Leadership of the NZ Labour Party Possible?
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 4:57 pm, August 17th, 2024 - 79 comments
Categories: Bernie Sanders, Economy, election 2023, Jeremy Corbyn, labour, political parties, Politics, uncategorized
Tags: alliance party, jim anderton, neo-liberalism, te tiriti o waitangi, working classIt is a painful experience, to have fought long and hard for something you knew was inadequate and to have even that taken away. The Labour Party has long urged activists to be ‘realistic’. Elliot Crossan argues that it will not return to be a socialist party of the working class.
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Waitangi Tribunal slams Treaty Principles Bill
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:27 am, August 17th, 2024 - 15 comments
Categories: act, leadership, national, nz first, Politics, same old national, treaty settlements
Tags:The Waitangi Tribunal has in a scathing interim report slammed Act’s Treaty Principles Bill. And Christopher Luxon has underlined his weakness by refusing to halt the bill.
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English rising anti-fascism
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:55 am, August 8th, 2024 - 68 comments
Categories: polycrisis, uk politics
Tags: anti-fascism, england, fascism, hopeThis is more hope than I have felt about humans in a long time
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Luxon is numerically illiterate
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:45 am, August 7th, 2024 - 5 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, education, making shit up, national, political parties, same old national, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags:National has been caught out yet again using dubious analysis of data to justify policy.
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David Seymour and his relationship to Atlas Network – Could this affect the fate of 7AA?
Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 1:35 pm, August 6th, 2024 - 6 comments
Categories: act, david seymour, Maori Issues, maori party
Tags: karen chhour, Maori rights, Section 7AASeymour was once called the “most dangerous man in Aotearoa right now.” But is he just misunderstood? Let’s revisit Section 7AA and Karen Chhour’s tears too.
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Mountain Tui: New Zealanders are now dying from an underfunded health system
Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 12:41 pm, August 5th, 2024 - 5 comments
Categories: budget 2024, Christopher Luxon, david seymour, health, Shane Reti
Tags: doctors, nursesAfter months of warnings from doctors, nurses and hospitals, a Northland patient is dead after no doctors were present at the hospital. The budget cuts and chosen austerity measures are hurting us all. Here’s more.
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About Karen Chhour’s future
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:06 am, August 3rd, 2024 - 27 comments
Categories: act, crime, Maori Issues, maori party, Parliament, political parties, Social issues, uncategorized
Tags: karen chhourAct minister Karen Chhour has recently adopted the mantle of victimhood and claimed that she has been under attack and feels unsafe in Parliament. But the attacks are not personal and are motivated by the damage her party is causing to Oranga Tamariki as well as to the country’s race relations.
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The Abuse in Care report and the Government’s boot camp proposal
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:53 am, July 25th, 2024 - 24 comments
Categories: crime, law, law and "order", national, prisons, same old national, Social issues
Tags: report into abuse in careThe Royal Commission’s recently released report into abuse in care has highlighted how unsuccessful and how damaging boot camps can be at the time the Government is celebrating the opening of its latest attempted version of a boot camp.
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A nation reinvented: 40 years on from its 1984 victory, the Fourth Labour Government still defines NZ
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:05 am, July 17th, 2024 - 9 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags:“After nine years of economic nationalism and social conservatism under National prime minister Robert Muldoon, David Lange’s new broom left no corner unswept. In the space of a few short years, fuelled by a high-octane blend of neoliberal theory and neoclassical state minimalism, it reinvented the nation.”
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Mountain Tui: Trump’s shooting reveals a hidden danger for New Zealand too
Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 10:00 am, July 15th, 2024 - 73 comments
Categories: corruption, Donald Trump, spin, taxpayers union
Tags: dirty politics, Misinformation, national, USATrump’s shooting has left the world shocked and bewildered. But what, if anything, does it mean for us here in New Zealand?
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Respect existence or expect resistance
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:08 am, June 9th, 2024 - 16 comments
Categories: act, chris bishop, climate change, Environment, national, nz first, politicans, same old national, science, Shane Jones
Tags:Yesterday’s Greenpeace’s War on Nature protest in Tamaki Makaurau suggests growing unity on the left and an increasing determination to stop the Fast Track Projects Bill from being passed.
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The Budget Day Protests
Written By: weka - Date published: 8:33 am, May 30th, 2024 - 18 comments
Categories: budget 2024, democratic participation, Maori Issues, maori party
Tags: protest, strikeProtests by Māori and Tangata Tiriti against government policy are underway on the day of the National government’s first budget. Carkoi and Hikoi are taking place in many locations across the country.
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Is Shane Jones Right About Mining?
Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:58 am, May 25th, 2024 - 36 comments
Categories: Environment, Mining, Shane Jones
Tags:Maybe Shane Jones is at least partially right about mining.
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Speech time
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:02 am, May 21st, 2024 - 6 comments
Categories: chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, climate change, labour, national, Unions, workers' rights
Tags:In the past week Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins have both delivered future vision themed speeches. With some dramatic contrasts.
- Kinleith Mill’s troubles highlight industry’s ‘long slow burn’
Commodity manufacturers are at risk when their products can be made cheaper overseas The post Kinleith Mill’s troubles highlight industry’s ‘long slow burn’ appeared first on Newsroom. ...2 days ago - The case for juries
New Zealand will find out early next year if the Government will decrease the number of jury trials in a bid to speed up the court system.Currently, defendants can choose to face a jury – rather than a judge alone – when charged with a criminal offence carrying a maximum ...2 days ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Thursday 21 November
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- National desperately needs to nullify Act’s Treaty bill
The Prime Minister cannot afford to be seen getting bogged down and taken over by Act on the Treaty Principles Bill The post National desperately needs to nullify Act’s Treaty bill appeared first on Newsroom. ...2 days ago
- Daily crossword, Thursday 21 November
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- Urban fringe precincts give city centres a run for their money
Making way for future growth doesn’t have to – and likely won’t – take place in existing city centres, says a company developing significant office space on Auckland’s Southern Corridor.Unlisted commercial property fund manager Oyster Property Group and global investment firm KKR purchased the Central Park office park in Auckland’s ...2 days ago
- Book of the Week: How to honour te Tiriti
The newly published Te Tiriti o Waitangi Relationships: People, Politics and Law is the third of a Bridget Williams Books series which started with a 2004 volume on the Waitangi Tribunal, and was followed by a collection on Treaty settlements in 2012. Its intention is to present what “leading scholars ...2 days ago
- NZ downgraded in global climate rankings
New Zealand has dropped seven places to 41st in the global Climate Change Performance Index, which ranks countries based on their emissions, deployment of renewable electricity, overall energy use and climate policy.The announcement of the latest update to the index, which has been running since 2005 and is considered an ...3 days ago
- Police research adds to evidence against gang patch ban
As Te Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti gathered at Wellington’s Waitangi Park on the waterfront on Tuesday morning, the MC welcomed “brothers of the patched world and sisters of the patched world”.He told the Māori members of the crowd that their whakapapa – carried through tā moko – survived on the ...3 days ago
- Young families are leaving many large US cities − here’s why that matters
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Biswa Das, Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Extension Economist, Iowa State University Parents and educators rally at Boston City Hall demanding urgent action to improve the city’s public schools. Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Young families ...3 days ago - Australia’s $230 billion Future Fund encouraged to invest in housing, energy transition, infrastru...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has rewritten the mandate of the Future Fund – the nation’s sovereign wealth fund – to urge it to direct investment into the “national priorities” of housing, the energy transition and infrastructure, ...3 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government says it will take “big money” out of election campaigns – or, more realistically, curb it – with its legislation imposing donation and spending caps and real-time disclosure. But crossbenchers and other ...3 days ago
- The hīkoi and Parliament: A photo essay
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- Why NZ is protesting over colonial-era treaty bill – a global perspective
An overview for our international readers of Asia Pacific Report. BACKGROUNDER: By Sarah Shamim A fight for Māori indigenous rights drew more than 50,000 protesters to the New Zealand Parliament in the capital Wellington yesterday. A nine-day-long Hīkoi, or peaceful march — a Māori tradition — was undertaken in protest ...3 days ago
- The NT and ACT might have small populations but their economies are growing faster than the bigger s...
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It will help pay for losses suffered by poorer countries because of climate change. ...3 days ago
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"What people wear is not the issue," one Black Power member told RNZ. ...3 days ago
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- Speaker’s handling of hīkoi ‘overkill’ – Te Paati Māori
Staff were locked from being able give water to protesters, and wifi access was blocked too, co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said. ...3 days ago
- Richard Chambers to be announced as new Police Commissioner
Richard Chambers is replacing outgoing commissioner Andrew Coster. ...3 days ago
- Richard Chambers announced as new Police Commissioner
Richard Chambers is replacing outgoing commissioner Andrew Coster. ...3 days ago
- Government designates Hezbollah as terrorist entity
The government has also slapped a similar designation on the Houthi movement. ...3 days ago
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RNZ News International media coverage of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national Hīkoi to Parliament has largely focused on the historic size of the turnout in Wellington yesterday and the wider contention between Māori and the Crown. Some, including The New York Times, have also pointed out the recent swing right with ...3 days ago
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