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  1. The Jack Tame and James Shaw korero

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 9:54 am, April 29th, 2024 -  22 comments
    Categories: greens, james shaw
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    This is politics as it should and could be: human, honest while retaining boundaries, insightful without the need for politicking.

  2. 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
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    The culture wars exist, and they are a tool weaponised in the class war.

  3. Towards Banana Republic Status

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:25 am, April 17th, 2024 -  27 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, climate change, corruption, democracy under attack, Economy, energy, Environment, global warming, law and "order", national, nz first, Politics, same old national, Shane Jones
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    There is a bill before Parliament right now that has the potential of blowing a rather big hole in our reputation as an open and transparent democracy.

  4. At least Chris Bishop sleeps in a well made bed

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 8:26 am, April 17th, 2024 -  85 comments
    Categories: national, national/act government, tenants' rights
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    Having a decent home is a human right

  5. The Cass Review reader: investigations into the treatment of gender dysphoric children and youth

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 9:56 am, April 15th, 2024 -  144 comments
    Categories: child welfare, health
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    The final report is a carefully worded document designed particularly for the systems of power in charge of child health, wellbeing and safeguarding: health systems and their managers, medical practitioners and their professional bodies, MPs and government departments, and NGOs.

    It’s also a damning indictment of the poorly evidence medical experiment that has been done on gender non-conforming children in the past decade. It’s likely to be the biggest medical scandal many of us will see.

  6. The first Ministerial scalp?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:34 am, April 14th, 2024 -  27 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Media, melissa lee, national, same old national, winston peters
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    Already we have what looks like an odds on favourite for the first Ministerial scalp.

  7. What if climate collapse comes much sooner than we expected?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:07 am, April 8th, 2024 -  91 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    “It is simply mind-boggling,” said Prof Michael Meredith, science leader at the British Antarctic Survey. “In sub-zero temperatures such a massive leap is tolerable but if we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population.”

  8. Why the Climate Strike matters (in case we are still thinking the crisis isn’t urgent)

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 9:54 am, April 5th, 2024 -  7 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster
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    All those climate scientists talking about temperature recently? This is what it means for us, right here, right now, and for the rest of our lives

  9. Forest and Bird: on the Fast Track Approvals Bill and how to make a submission

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:00 pm, April 4th, 2024 -  2 comments
    Categories: nature
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    “this is going to take all of us using our voice for nature, in all the places we are, to make it clear that we’re not against regulation, we actually quite like it, but we want regulation that is isn’t unbridled and puts power in the hands of Ministers in a way that New Zealand has never seen before.” – Nicola Toki CE of Forest and Bird

  10. Chris Hipkins – Values Matter

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:59 pm, March 24th, 2024 -  94 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, labour
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    Text of the speech delivered by Chris Hipkins delivered in Auckland today.

  11. The GCSB revelations

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:37 am, March 24th, 2024 -  24 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, International, john key, national, Politics, same old national, Spying, The Standard, us politics
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    RNZ has reported that a foreign agency collected signals intelligence out of the GCSB for years without ministers knowing. And the collection only stopped after the equipment broke down.

  12. 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
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    Grant Robertson has given his valedictory speech in Parliament.

  13. Rock Solid Financial Geniuses

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:55 pm, March 13th, 2024 -  45 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, making shit up, national, same old national, spin, tax, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The right has this belief that they are economic geniuses. Occasionally this belief is shown to be faulty. Like this week when National’s costings for tax cuts to Landlords was $800 million more than previously estimated.

  14. Dune 2 and Gaza

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:37 am, March 3rd, 2024 -  7 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Palestine, religion
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    What if life followed fiction and Gaza was explained by Dune 2? Sigh. It isn’t. 

  15. 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
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    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?

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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”.

  20. 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

  21. 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.

  22. 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 […]

  23. 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

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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.