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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
   Tags: Jill Ovens, women's rights party

   “We are the only political party in New Zealand that puts women first”

2. 

   Climate: where we are heading

   Written By:  climatewatch -  Date published: 6:05 am, June 28th, 2023 -  35 comments
   Categories: climate change, disaster
   Tags: how change happens, Kevin Anderson, Michael Flammer

   The United Nations University has released a sixteen minute film featuring world leading climate scientist and carbon budget specialist Professor Kevin Anderson talking about the utter catastrophe we are heading for if we don’t take radical action on climate now.

3. 

   Why Public Ownership Is Great

   Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 4:20 pm, June 25th, 2023 -  10 comments
   Categories: assets, auckland supercity, local government, Politics, privatisation, supercity, uncategorized
   Tags:

   In the absence of any political party stating clearly that public ownership of major infrastructure is a very good idea, here’s 10 good things public ownership of infrastructure does that private ownership doesn’t.

4. 

   Don’t Stop

   Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:16 am, June 21st, 2023 -  20 comments
   Categories: activism, climate change
   Tags: big oil, Don't Stop, greenpeace

   “Meanwhile, oil companies are enjoying record profits”

5. 

   On a schism by the unrighteous and immoral

   Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 3:03 pm, June 20th, 2023 -  21 comments
   Categories: election 2023, national, political parties, Politics
   Tags: democracynz, northland, sarcasm, schism

   The latest from the fledgling Democracy NZ is a classic schism by people who don’t want to actually achieve anything useful. It has lost about a third of its senior candidates. Classic for those who prioritise their own personal freedom over cooperation and community in their pursuit of power.

6. 

   When You Pay Peanuts, You Get Propaganda

   Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 6:23 pm, June 17th, 2023 -  38 comments
   Categories: journalism, making shit up, Media, news, Propaganda
   Tags: RNZ, trustworthy sources

   Trust requires vigilant efforts to build and keep. This means time and money.

7. 

   Luxon, the idiot for whom ignorance is bliss

   Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 12:45 pm, June 12th, 2023 -  29 comments
   Categories: capital gains, Christopher Luxon, climate change, Economy, Environment, farming, national, Politics, tax
   Tags: GMO, jack tame, Q&A

   Last night I watched Christopher Luxon in a interview with Jack Tame on Q&A from youtube. My takeaway from it was that I don’t want this fool anywhere near actual policy. He exhibited a blissful ignorance about downstream effects of genetic engineering, climate change, and productivity in our economy. Even where I agreed with him like on GE – I didn’t want this idiot implementing policy on it.

8. 

   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
   Tags:

   Regional rail is a perpetual makework gig servicing the wrong economy and just needs to stop.

9. 

   Carmel Sepuloni – bring it on

   Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:05 pm, May 27th, 2023 -  49 comments
   Categories: Carmel Sepuloni, labour, uncategorized
   Tags:

   Carmel Sepuloni’s speech to the 2023 Labour Party Congress.

10. 

    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
    Tags:

    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. 

11. 

    Our heat battery in the oceans

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:04 am, May 19th, 2023 -  28 comments
    Categories: budget 2023, climate change, Economy, Environment, infrastructure, Politics, science
    Tags: asia-pacific, australia, farming for the future, fishing industry, heat waves, oceans

    Almost all of the extra heat that humans have captured by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere over the last few centuries has wound up warming the deep oceans. We’re now starting to feel the effects of that excess heat.

12. 

    Kerekere quits Greens

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:46 am, May 6th, 2023 -  65 comments
    Categories: election 2023, greens, political parties
    Tags:

    Elizabeth Kerekere has announced that she is quitting the Green Party, will stay on as an independent and not stand again at the next election.

13. 

    Taihoa on AUKUS Pillar 2

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 10:16 pm, April 24th, 2023 -  63 comments
    Categories: Anzac Day, australian politics, China, defence, democratic participation, iraq, tech industry, uk politics, us politics, war
    Tags:

    Andrew Little says our government is willing to “explore” participating in AUKUS Pillar 2, but “foreign or local voices would not be a factor.” Our leaders will decide he says. I say “taihoa.”

14. 

    Stephen Jack is cancelled by the National Party

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:38 pm, April 20th, 2023 -  28 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, election 2023, Media, national, same old national, social media lolz
    Tags:

    So National has yet another candidate problem. His name is Stephen Jack and he clearly has difficulties in negotiating reality.

15. 

    Extinction Rebellion: The Big One

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:05 am, April 17th, 2023 -  6 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change
    Tags: extinction rebellion, XR

    XR are back. New strategy, same smart and bold action.

16. 

    Pale Stale Ale and Other Forbidden Fluids

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 3:25 pm, April 16th, 2023 -  11 comments
    Categories: Satire
    Tags: sarcasm

    Little Adolf was relentlessly bullied during his ECE through no fault of his own. Later in life, he became a heavy drinker of pale stale ale.

17. 

    About Wayne Brown’s dereliction of duty

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 12:42 pm, April 15th, 2023 -  22 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, local government, supercity
    Tags:

    Dear journalists, please do not let Mayor Wayne Brown off the hook regarding his appalling dereliction of duty.

18. 

    How I answered the census ‘gender’ question 

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 10:44 am, April 13th, 2023 -  77 comments
    Categories: gender
    Tags: census, gender, gender identity, gender stereotypes, Laura Lopez, stats nz, transgender

    Guest Post by Laura López on the complex problems with the “What is your gender?” question in the New Zealand 2023 Census.

19. 

    Jacinda’s Valedictory Speech

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:28 pm, April 5th, 2023 -  6 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, Parliament, Politics, uncategorized
    Tags:

    Video of Jacinda Ardern’s Valedictory speech given today in Parliament.

20. 

    The real reason New Zealand’s literacy standards are tanking *

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:00 am, March 27th, 2023 -  42 comments
    Categories: education, national, same old national
    Tags:

    * the answer is National Standards, the effects of which are still being felt.

21. 

    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
    Tags:

    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.

22. 

    Climate change – the final final warning

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:05 am, March 22nd, 2023 -  78 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, greens, labour, national, same old national, science
    Tags:

    The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change has synthesised reports on the climate crisis from hundreds of scientists over the past eight years and has boiled it down to one message: act now, or it will be too late.

23. 

    Did bacteria exist before we had microscopes?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:26 am, March 13th, 2023 -  162 comments
    Categories: indigenous knowledge, science
    Tags: Mātauranga Māori, the western mind, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western Science

    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.

24. 

    A Lone Voice of Sanity on Ukraine

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 6:28 pm, February 26th, 2023 -  76 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, history, Peace, Peace, Russia, Ukraine, war
    Tags:

    Historian Malcolm McKinnon in Thursday’s DominionPost states that “caution is needed when crafting victory over Russia as the primary war aim in Ukraine.” Truer words were never spoken, as western hysteria rejects calls for peace and escalates to wider war.

25. 

    Natural disasters test new leaders in New Zealand – some did better than others.

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 4:48 am, February 19th, 2023 -  1 comment
    Categories: chris hipkins, Christchurch Attack, Christopher Luxon, covid-19, disaster, Environment, health, labour, national, Politics, terrorism
    Tags: Auckland Flooding, chris hipkins, Christopher luxon, Cyclone Gabrielle, leadership, nick kelly, Wayne Brown

    After the Auckland flood, Wayne Brown’s election will now be viewed as a cautionary tale. What can happen when someone who is inexperienced and unsuited to political office is elected to important political leadership roles. The blowback of this on the New Zealand right should not be understated, it is bad news for them.

26. 

    Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation and Scottish Independence.

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 9:19 am, February 16th, 2023 -  56 comments
    Categories: Brexit, democratic participation, jacinda ardern, Nicola Sturgeon, Politics, referendum, uk politics
    Tags: Boris Johnson, nick kelly, nicola sturgeon, scottish independence, scottish national party, SNP

    While Sturgeon’s strong leadership and vision have helped build support for Scottish Independence, the Conservative and Unionist Party’s arrogance and self-serving incompetence in government have greatly aided her in this.

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    Why do rationalists position Science against Mātauranga Māori?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 9:41 am, January 25th, 2023 -  142 comments
    Categories: indigenous knowledge, science
    Tags: Jerry Coyne, Mātauranga Māori, the western mind

    Another piece on the internet by a Western scientist calling indigenous knowledge superstitious woo that should be separated from the Mighty Western Science way of knowing. Take that as a content warning either way if you are reading on.

28. 

    Jacinda Ardern – How will her five years in power be remembered?

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 7:13 am, January 24th, 2023 -  52 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, assets, bill english, chris hipkins, election 2017, election 2020, election 2023, elections, helen clark, jacinda ardern, labour, polls, privatisation
    Tags: chris hipkins, coronavirus, jacinda ardern, Labour leadership, Labour Party, leadership, nick kelly, nz labour party, they are us

    It is too soon to say what Jacinda’s legacy will be. She will certainly be remembered for becoming a mother whilst being a world leader. For her presence on the world stage as a voice for feminism and progressive politics. She ushered in a generational and attitudinal change in New Zealand politics. While internationally she offered an alternative to the politics of Trump, Bolsonaro, Scott Morrison, and Viktor Orban.

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    Your Mindset and Your Money

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:29 pm, January 18th, 2023 -  48 comments
    Categories: class, Economy, poverty, tax
    Tags:

    Mega property owning entrepreneur Graeme Fowler thinks we can all be rich if we just changed our attitude.

30. 

    The curious case of Liz Truss

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 6:57 am, January 17th, 2023 -  34 comments
    Categories: Austerity, Brexit, Financial markets, uk politics
    Tags: Boris Johnson, LIbertarians, Liz Truss, neo-liberalism, One nation Tories, UK Conservatives

    The truth is, the throwing caution to the wind approach of slashing taxes, removing restrictions on banker bonuses, and slashing other regulations such as IR35 were all consistent with what he and Truss had argued in Britannia Unchained a decade earlier. And these ideas found favour with the Conservative Party membership – with the idealised view of Thatcher’s vision of small government, deregulation and low taxation. For the general public, this was not so much ‘Britannia Unchained’ as ‘Libertarians Unhinged.

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    Boris Johnson – why he fell and can he come back?

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 7:02 am, January 15th, 2023 -  1 comment
    Categories: Abuse of power, boris johnson, Brexit, conservative party, leadership, making shit up, Politics, uk politics
    Tags: Boris Johnson, brexit, covid-19, Dominic Cummings, nick kelly, tories, UK Tories

    It is risky to make predictions, but it is safe to assume we have not heard the last of Boris Johnson. And much like Berlusconi in Italy, the results will undoubtedly be bad both for politics and the country.