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  1. RIP Efeso Collins

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 4:49 pm, February 21st, 2024 -  17 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Very sad news today with news of Fa’anana Efeso Collins’ untimely death.

  2. Where Oz goes, we go? To war with China?

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 9:28 pm, February 17th, 2024 -  38 comments
    Categories: AUKUS, australian politics, China, defence, Diplomacy, Pacific, Peace, us politics
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    Testifying to the Defence Select Committee last week, Air Marshal Short said Australia was “reshaping” its Defence Force for “a singular threat from a singular direction.” This was described as being an obvious reference to China.

  3. The Subs and the Next War

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 11:28 am, February 11th, 2024 -  9 comments
    Categories: AUKUS, australian politics, China, defence, Diplomacy, Disarmament, Peace, uk politics, us politics, war
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    In March 2023, former Australian prime minister Paul Keating attracted significant media attention when he described AUKUS as a manifestation of the United States’s campaign to encircle China with hostile military allies and partners.

  4. Should America elect a well intentioned but hapless President or an evil and dangerous President?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:58 am, February 11th, 2024 -  30 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, International, Joe Biden, us politics
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    Robert Hur, the Republican prosecutor investigating President Biden’s retention of classified documents has concluded he should not face trial because he was “well-intentioned, but sometimes hapless and forgetful”.

  5. Alex Foulkes To Stand For Green Party Co-Leader

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:05 am, February 11th, 2024 -  147 comments
    Categories: greens, socialism
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    Faulkes describes himself as a staunch Eco-Socialist and trade unionist

  6. 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
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    “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.

  7. Mr Bates vs The Post Office

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 6:54 am, February 5th, 2024 -  12 comments
    Categories: tech industry, uk politics
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    Originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog Many question the value of the performing arts and drama. At the start of 2024, the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office did what journalists, politicians and broader civil society have failed to do over the last 25 years. It raised public awareness of the injustice faced […]

  8. The “New Zealand model” for prostitution liberalisation doesn’t work

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:09 am, February 4th, 2024 -  57 comments
    Categories: feminism, sexism, violence against women, women's rights party
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    The Women’s Rights Party New Zealand and the Women’s Declaration International – New Zealand recently made a joint submission to Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls

  9. The Apparatus behind the Curtain

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 1:54 pm, February 2nd, 2024 -  6 comments
    Categories: act, chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, health, national, nicola willis, same old national, Shane Reti
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    The release from the Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa around tobacco industry interference was a glimpse behind the curtain into a troubling reality.

  10. 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
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    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.

  11. 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
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    The 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.

  12. Why does National hate EVs?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:17 pm, January 17th, 2024 -  71 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, public transport, science, simeon brown, transport
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    At a time when we need cool heads and leaders who understand the enormity of the problem that is climate change and the consequences of getting our response right we are getting this retrograde culture war from people who should know better.

  13. The Coming Oil Crisis

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:21 am, January 13th, 2024 -  21 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Economy, energy, International, israel, Palestine
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    An expanding Middle East war that puts the Red Sea and Suez tanker route at risk is a major risk to us because it could hit the global price of oil.

  14. Genocide in Gaza

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 8:49 pm, January 7th, 2024 -  57 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, gaza, israel, Joe Biden, Judith Collins, law, Palestine, Peace, Ukraine, winston peters, Zionism
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    South Africa has taken a case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza to the International Court of Justice. A group of prominent New Zealand lawyers have asked the New Zealand Government to join South Africa in support of their application. I think we should.

  15. The Pogues wrote the best Christmas song ever

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:53 am, December 25th, 2023 -  4 comments
    Categories: art, Deep stuff, human rights, music, Politics
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    It is Christmas time and the eternal debate about who wrote the best Christmas song ever is being debated yet again. For me there is only one possible contender.

  16. Is the Coalition Government Back Jabbing Māori?

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 4:10 pm, December 22nd, 2023 -  19 comments
    Categories: health, inequality, Maori Issues, same old national, Shane Reti, vaccines
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    The coalition government robs Pita to pay Paora to appease its voter base.

  17. 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
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    The coalition government has hijacked the democratic process for its own partisan and nefarious agenda.

  18. Wanted: Dead or Alive? The Treaty of Waitangi

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 1:55 pm, December 17th, 2023 -  28 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff
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    Is the Treaty a contemporary guide or an archaic historical document?

  19. Why was Judith Collins appointed as a KC?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:46 am, December 17th, 2023 -  35 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, Judith Collins, law, law and "order", national, same old national
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    Judith Collins has been appointed a Kings Counsel even before she has had time to show her performance as Attorney General and even though previous highly respected lawyers such as David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer and Margaret Wilson were not appointed while serving as Attorneys General.

  20. About the Te Papa protest

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:32 pm, December 12th, 2023 -  183 comments
    Categories: Maori Issues, Politics, treaty settlements
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    Yesterday’s protest at Te Papa is but a teaser of what can be expected when Act’s Treaty Principles Bill is introduced.

  21. About that First Speech from Luxon as PM

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 2:47 pm, December 10th, 2023 -  58 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, Parliament, Politics
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    Chris Luxon failed miserably at his first character test as PM.

  22. Willis’s budget analysis is either deeply cynical or evidence she does not know what she is talking about

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:33 am, December 5th, 2023 -  75 comments
    Categories: budget 2023, grant robertson, labour, making shit up, national, nicola willis, same old national, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Recent claims by Nicola Willis that the Governments Finances are full of fiscal cliffs is evidence either that National will cynically make baseless claims to attack Labour or that Nicola Willis has no idea about what she is talking about and has not been doing her most basic job of reading and comprehending previous budget documents.

  23. Greenpeace event: What will the new Government mean for the environment?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:05 am, December 5th, 2023 -  10 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    In a special live stream event [Weds 6th December], the Greenpeace crew will respond to the makeup of the new coalition government and what it will mean for the environment.

  24. Strong stable Government?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:19 am, November 23rd, 2023 -  102 comments
    Categories: act, Christopher Luxon, david seymour, election 2023, national, nz first, winston peters
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    Today may be the day we have a new Government, that is as long as Act and NZ First can resolve their fight over who is to be Deputy Prime Minister.

  25. Like two cats in a sack

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:38 pm, October 6th, 2023 -  15 comments
    Categories: act, Christopher Luxon, david seymour, election 2023, national, nz first, war, winston peters
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    The minor leader’s debate last night confirmed the fact that David Seymour and Winston Peters hate each other.

  26. Why won’t Winston Peters answer straight forward questions about NZ First policy?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:49 am, October 2nd, 2023 -  116 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, election 2023, nz first, winston peters, women's rights party
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    Jack Tame vs Winston Peters.

  27. Triple the vote!

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:05 am, September 29th, 2023 -  19 comments
    Categories: election 2023
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    “If you triple your vote, we triple our power to protect people and planet”

  28. National really, really needs New Zealand to be in a recession

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:59 am, September 24th, 2023 -  22 comments
    Categories: economy, making shit up, national, same old national, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    After Stats NZ shot down National’s claim that the country is in recession National pirouetted by claiming that New Zealand WILL be in recession in the near future and that the Reserve Bank has predicted this. But according to the Reserve Bank this may not be true …

  29. TVNZ concludes that Luxon’s pants may have been on fire

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:00 pm, September 21st, 2023 -  39 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, making shit up, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Fact checking by TVNZ has determined that much of what Christopher Luxon said in the recent leader’s debate was not true.

  30. Understanding the New Zealand General Election 2023: Historical trends and perspectives.

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 6:01 am, September 20th, 2023 -  15 comments
    Categories: act, campaigning, chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, economy, election 2023, elections, First Past the Post, greens, inequality, labour, leadership, Long Read, maori party, MMP, national, national/act government, nz first
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    From the outside, the New Zealand 2023 General Election seems both lacklustre and slightly strange. The Labour Government, having won a huge majority in 2020 is now fighting for its political life. Yet National, the main centre-right opposition party is still on average polling significantly worse now than they were when it lost power in 2017.

  31. Labour to keep lifting worker wages and rights

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:31 pm, September 16th, 2023 -  12 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    “Worker’s rights are under threat this election as Christopher Luxon and David Seymour eye up a smorgasbord of cuts,” Labour Spokesperson for Workplace Relations and Safety Carmel Sepuloni said.

    “Only a Labour government will safeguard fair pay agreements, where applications are currently progressing to improve pay and conditions for bus drivers, hospitality staff, early childhood teachers, port workers, cleaners and security guards.”

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