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  1. The Women’s Rights Party

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:58 am, July 2nd, 2023 -  50 comments
    Categories: election 2023, feminism, gender critical feminism
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    “We are the only political party in New Zealand that puts women first”

  2. National releases uncosted corrections policy

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:56 am, June 26th, 2023 -  12 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, law, law and "order", national, national/act government, paul goldsmith, same old national
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    National has released a hotch potch policy of changes to Criminal Justice that is uncosted and seeks to achieve that which is already in force or proposed.

  3. This is what *ending poverty* looks like in New Zealand

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:05 am, June 12th, 2023 -  160 comments
    Categories: election 2023, greens, james shaw, Metiria Turei, unemployment
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    Poverty is a political choice, and the Green Party is choosing to end it. – James Shaw

  4. Stop Defending Regional Rail

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 12:44 pm, June 5th, 2023 -  51 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, public transport, science, transport
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    Regional rail is a perpetual makework gig servicing the wrong economy and just needs to stop.

  5. The real coalition of chaos

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:52 am, May 23rd, 2023 -  22 comments
    Categories: budget 2023, Christopher Luxon, climate change, Economy, ETS, national, nicola willis, poverty, same old national
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    National has hatched on its attack line which we will hear about a lot over the next few months. But it may have a problem. Because the phrase “coalition of chaos” clearly applies to its leadership team. 

  6. NZ history of voting systems in elections

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 12:46 pm, May 13th, 2023 -  33 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, elections, electoral systems, local body elections, MMP
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    A guest post by Seddonville Miner outlining the history of voting rights in New Zealand and how Christopher Luxon’s recent claims about our voting system are hopelessly incorrect.

  7. The Future of the Monarchy

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 12:46 am, May 5th, 2023 -  111 comments
    Categories: leadership, uk politics
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    Support for the monarchy is largely based on sentimentality. Democracies are not enhanced by feudal relics performing old-fashioned ceremonies and living in castles. These quaint traditions and displays are all rather nice, and for the most part fairly benign and harmless in themselves. But to pretend that they are in any way relevant to the modern world is absurd.

  8. How Labour Does Less And Still Wins

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 11:21 am, May 4th, 2023 -  21 comments
    Categories: budget 2023, election 2023, employment, labour, unemployment
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    Prime Minister Hipkins has put Labour on course to win a third term. Here’s how.

  9. Labour’s new water infrastructure policy

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:36 pm, April 13th, 2023 -  42 comments
    Categories: labour, water
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    We’ve listened to the feedback from Local Government and today we’re announcing our new regionally-led plan to guarantee New Zealanders affordable water, for generations to come. – Labour

  10. Wayne’s budget has nothing to do with saving money

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 11:08 am, March 26th, 2023 -  53 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, local government, supercity
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    We have heard numerous claims from Auckland mayor Wayne Brown and his supporters that the proposed budget is about saving money and getting rid of a nearly $300 million hole. This is a huge disservice to Aucklanders and hugely misleading.

  11. Luxon slumps in latest Colmar Brunton poll

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 6:18 pm, March 13th, 2023 -  57 comments
    Categories: act, chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, greens, labour, maori party, national, Politics, polls, uncategorized
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    The latest One News Kantar Poll result has been released and it is a doozie.

  12. Did bacteria exist before we had microscopes?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:26 am, March 13th, 2023 -  162 comments
    Categories: indigenous knowledge, science
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    So much of the ongoing debate about Mātauranga Māori is based on belief, and often unevidenced belief about what Mātauranga Māori is and how it is being used.

  13. Is Labour heading for Muriwai-scale landslide win?

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 8:15 am, February 22nd, 2023 -  37 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, labour, national, nicola willis, Politics, polls, same old national
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    Here’s my prediction: Labour will not just win the October election, but it will complete a landslide of similar proportions to the 2020 election. It has been Labour’s response to the cyclones that will be the decisive factor in October. Luxon’s low energy performance helps.

  14. luxon sheep

    Luxon’s little experiment

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:32 am, February 12th, 2023 -  30 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, labour, Maori Issues, maori party, national, same old national, treaty settlements
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    It is really difficult trying to appear to be Prime Minister material and inclusive and to appeal to racists at the same time. Christopher Luxon this week has shown how difficult it is.

  15. Luxon blunders again

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:38 pm, January 26th, 2023 -  25 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, Maori Issues, Maori seats, MMP, national, politicans, same old national, uncategorized
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    Chris Luxon has provided another example of his ineptness by suggesting in an MMP environment that a vote in a Maori Seat is worth more than a vote in an European seat.

  16. Your Mindset and Your Money

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:29 pm, January 18th, 2023 -  48 comments
    Categories: class, Economy, poverty, tax
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    Mega property owning entrepreneur Graeme Fowler thinks we can all be rich if we just changed our attitude.

  17. Be afraid, be very afraid …

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:20 am, December 22nd, 2022 -  165 comments
    Categories: act, david seymour, john key, national, national/act government, poverty
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    David Seymour is feeling his oats and has claimed that past National Governments never changes anything.  A brief review of history would suggest otherwise.

  18. Labour and National and Industry Intervention

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:51 am, December 9th, 2022 -  73 comments
    Categories: Environment, labour, Nanaia Mahuta, national, uncategorized, water
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    Minister Mahuta’s water reforms are by some measure the most consequential industry intervention of this Labour government, and likely to be the most successful in over a decade.

  19. Co-Governance is Orthodox Policy for both National and Labour

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:12 am, November 30th, 2022 -  412 comments
    Categories: Environment, labour, local government, Maori Issues, Nanaia Mahuta, national, water
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    National, the party which enacted legislation that gave Waikato command over the allocation of the Waikato River, iwi command over the Taupo catchment and full Maori control over the massive Uruwera water catchment, has not traditionally been opposed to co governance.

  20. What Is Labour’s Purpose This Term?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:57 am, November 28th, 2022 -  35 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Economy, jacinda ardern, labour, Maori Issues, political parties, poverty
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    It is time to set out succinctly and without recourse to abstract nouns exactly what this Labour government has intended, is doing, and how it seeks to alter the country.

  21. Diplomatic Values

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 5:39 pm, November 21st, 2022 -  4 comments
    Categories: benefits, China, culture, Diplomacy, economy, exports, Free Trade, human rights, jacinda ardern, overseas investment, Pacific, Peace, poverty
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    Trudeau got a 10-minute stand-up with Xi followed by a public shirt-fronting, Albanese a 32-minute sit-down, and Jacinda Ardern a 50-minute formal bilateral. In the carefully calibrated world of the diplomatic dance-card, that says something. New Zealand would be foolish not to take advantage of what is on offer from China.

  22. Comrade Chris and the politics of the warm inner glow

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:06 am, November 9th, 2022 -  127 comments
    Categories: housing, labour, Left, Media, uncategorized
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    Left wing contrarian Chris Trotter has made some outlandish claims about Jacinda Ardern’s recent conference speech.

  23. Jacinda Ardern to National – Bring It On

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:46 pm, November 6th, 2022 -  157 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, uncategorized
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    Text and video of Jacinda Ardern’s speech today to the Labour Party Annual Conference.

  24. What are National’s constituent tribes?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:06 am, October 23rd, 2022 -  25 comments
    Categories: national, same old national, uk politics
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    Russ Jones has described the five tribes of the UK Conservative Party as including One Nation Conservatives, xenophobic English nationalists, wild-eyed libertarians, scatty populist bullshitters and machine politicians.

  25. Wind Farms Need Mines

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:57 am, October 21st, 2022 -  32 comments
    Categories: climate change, energy, Environment, Mining, science
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    We need more mines if we are to transition to low carbon. There’s a field of industry that National and Labour could readily agree to if they put their minds to it, and it’s one of the highest paid industries in the world: mining. Electric cars, wind turbines and solar panels are made with a […]

  26. Groundswell or Deep Earth?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:22 am, October 20th, 2022 -  42 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    Groundswell want degenerative agriculture.

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