Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 5:39 pm, June 14th, 2020 - 64 comments
How odd of Todd! A condescending gesture turns into a cry for help.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:04 am, September 7th, 2017 - 18 comments
A brief extract from one of Jacinda Ardern’s speeches in Hamilton yesterday. Not just for the next three years but for the next ten – we have a chance to choose better…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:34 am, June 25th, 2017 - 19 comments
Jeremy Corbyn’s full speech to Glastonbury 2017. “Another world is possible…”
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:40 pm, March 16th, 2017 - 47 comments
Excellent speech from Andrew Little in Parliament yesterday, on the government’s willful blindness to the housing crisis.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:38 pm, February 2nd, 2017 - 51 comments
(Photo – Peter McIntosh the Otago Daily Times)
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:40 am, July 20th, 2016 - 74 comments
Michelle Obama or Melania Trump? The Republication convention descends further in to farce.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:16 am, July 6th, 2016 - 35 comments
2007 Key vs 2016 Key on the housing crisis. Someone is telling lies!
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:12 am, May 27th, 2016 - 41 comments
John Key has given a powerful speech on NZ’s housing crisis: “This is an issue that should concern all New Zealanders. It threatens a fundamental part of our culture, it threatens our communities and, ultimately, it threatens our economy.”
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:03 am, May 23rd, 2016 - 116 comments
A great reception for Little’s speech, and a take-home message that resonates well.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:45 pm, May 22nd, 2016 - 170 comments
“If there is one thing I am clear on it is this: the next Labour government will not tolerate poverty in New Zealand in the 21st century.”
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:11 am, April 15th, 2016 - 41 comments
As Nick Smith flounders about uselessly, here are extracts from Phil Twyford’s speech on solutions to the housing crisis in Auckland.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:01 am, November 9th, 2015 - 61 comments
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:32 am, September 26th, 2015 - 98 comments
Pope Francis has given two important speeches recently.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:25 pm, July 2nd, 2014 - 9 comments
It isn’t that often that we put up speeches by politicians. They’re usually aimed at the general public and don’t really get into the guts of the issues in the way that our activist commenters like to argue at – they tend to be political and in this site preaching to the converted. However this speech by Phil Goff is exceptional. It was made at a centre looking at China, and looks at the benefits and risks of our current and future relationships with that country. Worth reading
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:34 pm, March 16th, 2012 - 13 comments
Reorganisation is busy-work for when you can’t think of anything useful to do.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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