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The Waitangi Tribunal v Karen Chhour
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:08 am, May 12th, 2024 - 109 comments
Categories: act, child abuse, child welfare, law, law and "order", political parties
Tags:The Waitangi Tribunal has released a scathing interim decision relating to the Government’s intention to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989.
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2.5C and our choices: the bad news and the good news
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:10 am, May 9th, 2024 - 10 comments
Categories: climate change
Tags: 2.5CThe Guardian published a major report yesterday on what top climate scientists are saying about the climate crisis.
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Three waters lite
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:55 am, May 6th, 2024 - 39 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags:The Government has announced the reaching of an agreement with Auckland Council about Watercare which will over time be more expensive than Labour’s Tree Water alternative.
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A one term Government?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:16 am, May 5th, 2024 - 86 comments
Categories: act, health, law, law and "order", national, nz first
Tags:The Government is less than 12 months away from a change in the Deputy Prime Ministership and the transition will be a smooth one. Labour needs to be getting ready now. Because for the first time in this Country’s history this could be a one term National led Government.
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The Treaty of Waitangi and Oranga Tamariki
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:35 pm, April 29th, 2024 - 8 comments
Categories: act, child welfare, david seymour, Maori Issues, Politics, Shane Jones, Social issues, treaty settlements, uncategorized
Tags:Minister for Children Karen Chhour has resisted attempts by the Waitangi Tribunal to get her to explain how removing requirements to improve outcomes for Māori children is not a breach of the Treaty.
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It’s not a culture war, it’s a class war, and the left should be naming it as such
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:23 am, April 24th, 2024 - 34 comments
Categories: class, Culture wars, Maori Issues, sexism
Tags:The culture wars exist, and they are a tool weaponised in the class war.
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The list
Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:14 am, April 21st, 2024 - 11 comments
Categories: act, chris bishop, corruption, national, nz first, Politics, simeon brown
Tags:Making a major infrastructure deal happen takes years of planning, exceptionally qualified people on all sides, and in New Zealand it takes about ten years of your life. Until now.
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The Liz Truss of the South Seas
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:43 am, April 21st, 2024 - 35 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, david seymour, Economy, nicola willis, Shane Jones, treasury, treaty settlements, uk politics, uncategorized
Tags:Liz Truss’s short reign as UK Prime Minister foundered after her budget requiring borrowing to fund tax cuts was released. The budget tanked the UK economy and caused Truss’s resignation. This week amongst announcements of massive cuts it has emerged that the Government is also planning borrowing for tax cuts.
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Chris Hipkins – Values Matter
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:59 pm, March 24th, 2024 - 94 comments
Categories: chris hipkins, labour
Tags:Text of the speech delivered by Chris Hipkins delivered in Auckland today.
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Hoatu he tumanako ki a rātou
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:30 am, March 21st, 2024 - 20 comments
Categories: capital gains, covid-19, grant robertson, Maori Issues, parliamentary spending, politicans, tax
Tags:Grant Robertson has given his valedictory speech in Parliament.
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News and New Zealand Democracy
Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:59 am, March 9th, 2024 - 15 comments
Categories: accountability, broadcasting, Culture wars, Deep stuff, facebook, internet, interweb, journalism, Media, newspapers, Politics, Propaganda, radio, youtube
Tags:How do we prevent the decline of broadcast tv news being a deep wound to our democracy?
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Who is treating taxpayers as an ATM?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:16 pm, March 1st, 2024 - 51 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, national, Parliament, parliamentary spending, Politics, same old national
Tags:It has been revealed that Christopher Luxon receives $52,000 a year from the taxpayer to pay for him staying in his own apartment. Update within the space of an hour he has said that it was his entitlement but then said that he will pay the money back.
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What’s Left?
Written By: advantage - Date published: 12:07 pm, February 25th, 2024 - 51 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, chris hipkins, david parker, grant robertson, greens, james shaw, Kelvin Davis, labour, Left, michael wood, Nanaia Mahuta, Politics, stuart nash, uncategorized
Tags:From Election 2023’s result through to February 2024 there has been massive loss and damage to the Parliamentary capacity of Labour and Greens. Who still has the capacity to lead? What’s left?
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Get ready for your water to be privatised
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:39 am, February 17th, 2024 - 124 comments
Categories: assets, Environment, Privatisation, privatisation, simeon brown, uk politics, uncategorized, water
Tags:The National Government’s repeal of the Three Waters Legislation and its pursuit of “new forms of infrastructure funding and financing” suggests that privatisation of water is on the drawing board.
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National and the Gutting of Local Democracy
Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:57 pm, February 13th, 2024 - 16 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, community democracy, democracy under attack, democratic participation, local government, supercity
Tags:We have remarkably little democracy left in New Zealand.
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Toitu te Tiriti
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:20 pm, February 7th, 2024 - 68 comments
Categories: act, Maori Issues, national, nz first, Politics, treaty settlements
Tags:Recent events have shown overwhelming support for the treaty among Iwi, the willingness for David Seymour to create chaos for political advantage, and that Christopher Luxton is not in control of the Government.
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Ratana and The Treaty of Waitangi
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 5:25 pm, February 6th, 2024 - 10 comments
Categories: Culture wars, david seymour, history, labour, Maori Issues, Maori seats, Parliament
Tags:“My understanding is a guy came out as a prophet of his own religious movement in the 1870s. And politicians feel a strange obligation to be there every year. I’ve never felt that.” David Seymour is shallow as a birdbath.
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A modest proposal on Waitangi day
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 1:58 pm, February 5th, 2024 - 32 comments
Categories: Politics, treaty settlements
Tags: waitangi dayWhile the Treaty of Waitangi continues to be battered back and forth, the clear reality is that Maori, after signing the infuriating Treaty, were systematically dispossessed of their land. Any reading of the history of colonial treaties shows that treaties were the primary method of dispossession and were designed to be broken. And invariably they were.
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Shaw stands down as Greens co-leader
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:20 am, January 30th, 2024 - 77 comments
Categories: greens, james shaw
Tags:James Shaw has announced that he is standing down as co-leader of the Green Party and a leadership process will be triggered. He will stay on in Parliament in the meantime.
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The week Luxon lost his moral mandate to lead
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:44 am, January 29th, 2024 - 30 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, david seymour, Politics, racism, Shane Jones, treaty settlements, winston peters
Tags:The last week has shown how Christopher Luxon has no understanding of New Zealand’s history and no appreciation about how dangerous Act’s proposed Treaty Principles Bill is.
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Which side are you on?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:59 am, January 21st, 2024 - 191 comments
Categories: act, david seymour, Maori Issues, national, racism, same old national, Shane Jones, treaty settlements, winston peters
Tags: AtlasThe Act Party is seeking to undermine te Tiriti o Waitangi and ferment racial hatred and division while nominally seeking unity. And National clearly has no idea what to do about the situation.
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The best Electoral System that money can buy
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:33 am, January 19th, 2024 - 22 comments
Categories: act, democracy under attack, democratic participation, election 2023, elections, labour, maori party, national, political parties, Politics, same old national
Tags: AtlasThe Independent Electoral Review Panel has recommended changes to the electoral system including the banning of any donations unless made by enrolled voters, a cap on the size of those donations and a requirement that third parties disclose all large donations that they receive.
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NZ First does not want National to have good relations with Kiingi Tuuheitia
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:32 pm, January 16th, 2024 - 13 comments
Categories: act, Christopher Luxon, Maori Issues, national, nz first, Shane Jones
Tags:The day after Christopher Luxon made the pilgrimage to meet with Kiingi Tuuheitia and try and calm feelings ahead of the Weekend’s hui at Ngaruwahia to discuss the Government’s attacks on Te Tiriti and Te Reo Shane Jones went onto Morning Report and applied the blowtorch to Luxon’s attempt to keep matters calm.
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Peak NZ Liberal
Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:13 am, December 23rd, 2023 - 69 comments
Categories: climate change, Deep stuff, Environment, health, jacinda ardern, labour, maori party, national, science, water
Tags:As National dismantles with speed some of the institutional reforms made by the last Labour Government the concern is that we may have witnessed the peak in progressive influence.
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The New Zealand’s New Neo-Authoritarian Coalition Government
Written By: Incognito - Date published: 2:36 pm, December 21st, 2023 - 20 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, democracy under attack, democratic participation
Tags: consultation, neo-authoritarianismThe coalition government has hijacked the democratic process for its own partisan and nefarious agenda.
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Wanted: Dead or Alive? The Treaty of Waitangi
Written By: Incognito - Date published: 1:55 pm, December 17th, 2023 - 28 comments
Categories: Deep stuff
Tags: living document, originalism, te tiriti o waitangi, Treaty of waitangiIs the Treaty a contemporary guide or an archaic historical document?
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The Government is leaking like a leaky thing
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:39 am, December 9th, 2023 - 15 comments
Categories: act, national, nz first, Parliament, same old national
Tags:Another day and another leak. And this time it calls into question the Government’s commitment to informed decision making.
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About that Speech from the Throne
Written By: Incognito - Date published: 8:33 pm, December 6th, 2023 - 45 comments
Categories: climate change, Culture wars, farming, health, Maori Issues, Politics, water
Tags: coalition government, Maori Health Agency, speech from the throne, Three Waters, Treaty of waitangiThe new Government blows the dog-whistle like the pied piper.
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What does National have against Te Reo?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:17 am, December 6th, 2023 - 177 comments
Categories: national, nicola willis, same old national, simeon brown, Te Reo Māori, treaty settlements
Tags:It may have been coincidental but the day after there were mass protests against the new Government’s actions in undermining te Tiriti o Waitangi it was announced that National would seek to remove bonus payments for Public Servants learning Te Reo. Not only is this petty and vindictive, it may also be a breach of te Tiriti.
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Highlights quoted out of the National-New Zealand First coalition agreement
Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:36 am, November 25th, 2023 - 73 comments
Categories: cost of living, crime, economy, education, health, national, nz first, tertiary education, transport, uncategorized, winston peters, workers' rights
Tags:Some of the more unusual policies from the National-New Zealand First coalition agreement.
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What Is peace Anyway?
Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:29 am, November 16th, 2023 - 12 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, International, israel, Palestine, Peace, Politics, Russia, uk politics, Ukraine, uncategorized, war
Tags:We are further away from peace in parts of the world than a decade ago. But pessimism about peace isn’t a foregone conclusion.
- A beginner’s guide to yum cha
Let Jean Teng show you how to do yum cha right. All photos by Jin Fellet. Yum cha is ritualistic. Being absorbed into the cacophony of Sunday morning chaos at a Cantonese restaurant pretty much always feels the same, no matter which one it is. There’s the same families ...3 days ago - Vietnam war vets’ financial support claims boosted by new ruling
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- Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks – new report
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW Sydney Varavin/Shutterstock New research reveals serious privacy flaws in the data practices of new internet connected cars in Australia. It’s yet another reason ...3 days ago - The world reacts to te Hīkoi mō te tiriti
International media seem to agree the Treaty Principles Bill and national hīkoi put New Zealand at a pivotal moment in history. ...3 days ago
- City Rail Link: Mayor Wayne Brown unsure it will get across the line in time
Auckland's mayor has lost confidence that the City Rail Link will be finished on time, despite assurances from officials. ...3 days ago
- Women are still being paid almost $30,000 a year less than men and the gap widens with age
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leonora Risse, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Canberra Kaewmanee jiangsihui/Shutterstock Australia’s gender pay gap has been shrinking year by year, but is still over 20% among Australia’s private companies, a new national report card shows. But that gender gap is ...3 days ago
- Listen: Christopher Luxon says ‘no need to meet’ with hīkoi at Parliament
The Prime Minister says organisers were "closely aligned" with Te Pāti Māori, but acknowledged it was "a significant day". ...3 days ago
- ‘Burnt out, tired, frustrated’: how hospital pressures harm doctors’ mental health
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Keddie, Professor of Education, Deakin University If parents have a choice, the decision about where to send a child to school and what will be best for them can be a really difficult one. One question that comes up frequently ...4 days ago
- Michelle Visage is now hosting Drag Race Down Under. It’s a milestone for cis women in drag
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yves Rees, Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University Stan Drag Race Down Under is back for a fourth season, only this time something is different. The Australasian franchise is no longer helmed by the eponymous RuPaul. Instead, this season the ...4 days ago
- ‘Impossible’ to know effect of new gang laws on victimisation – Justice Minister
The gang patch ban comes into effect at midnight tonight. ...4 days ago
- Luxon didn’t meet the hīkoi, but he won’t be able to hide from what comes next
An undeniable show of opposition to the coalition painted the streets of Wellington red, white and black, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund for The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. ...4 days ago
- In a global nursing shortage, NZ’s reliance on overseas-trained staff is not sustainable
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Holloway, Associate Professor, Director of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Practice, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Olafur Seinar Gestsson/Getty Images The global shortage of trained nurses has been described as a health emergency by the ...4 days ago
- Deportations hampered by availability and cost of flights
A lack of flights is being blamed for the number of deportations being hundreds short of government targets. ...4 days ago
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After the hīkoi: supporters are proud of the message sent, but a six month long process for the Treaty Principles Bill still lies ahead. ...4 days ago
- What now for the Treaty Principles Bill?
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A family living in fear of their young son's increasingly dangerous behaviour asked for support. Instead, the agency turned its focus on his mum. ...4 days ago
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Media estimates of the crowd size ranged from 17,000 to 100,000+, but one thing we can say for sure — it was bloody massive. Thirty-five thousand people. That’s the crowd size police initially estimated for the final leg of the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti, the nine-day march in protest of ...4 days ago
- How has Luxon’s position on the Treaty Principles Bill changed over time?
The prime minister has never supported David Seymour’s bill in principle, or beyond first reading in practice, but his language has certainly changed. The National Party has spent a large amount of time in this parliamentary term talking about a bill it doesn’t like. Which is not much fun. In ...4 days ago
- Has Netflix forgotten about New Zealand?
Following the opening of the Netflix ANZ office in Sydney and lacklustre commissioning of New Zealand content, the local industry has been left wondering where we fit in. Here at the bottom of the globe, we’re used to being overlooked. New Zealand has been left off the world map so ...4 days ago
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Indian immigration to New Zealand has been going on for more than 100 years, but in the past 25 it’s become synonymous with exploitation.The stories come thick and fast – dozens of Indian men living in squalid conditions, their promised jobs amounting to nothing; nurses training for and gaining Kiwi ...4 days ago
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- Let’s not play into Seymour’s hands by talk of racist Treaty bill
Opinion: David Seymour is playing the long game, and we’d be dangerously foolish to count him out.As his Treaty Principles Bill passed its first reading in Parliament last week, there was no shortage of news coverage and analysis.Much of the commentary has focused on the ignorance of his interpretation of Te ...4 days ago
- Daily crossword, Wednesday 20 November
The post Daily crossword, Wednesday 20 November appeared first on Newsroom. ...4 days ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Wednesday 20 November
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By Ashleigh McCaull, RNZ News journalist Aotearoa New Zealand’s capital Wellington Pōneke turned into a sea of black, white and red today, as more than 42,000 people supporting te Hīkoi mō te Tiriti overflowed Parliament’s lawn and onto the streets. Supporters then headed to Waitangi Park, where a post-hīkoi concert ...4 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers will announce on Wednesday a package of reforms to the retirement phase of the superannuation system, to make it easier to navigate and consumer friendly. In a speech to the industry, Chalmers ...4 days ago
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Meanwhile, wait times for GPs keep increasing, along with rates of mental distress. ...4 days ago
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- 42,000 join as Treaty Principles Bill hīkoi reaches Parliament
By mid-afternoon today 42,000 people gathered at the Parliamentary precinct and the surrounding streets, police say. ...4 days ago
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