Time for Bernie to stand down?

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, June 9th, 2016 - 190 comments
Categories: us politics - Tags: bernie sanders, hillary clinton

I’m a big fan of Bernie Sanders and all that he has accomplished. But with his loss in California it really is over. Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. (Never mind the foolishness of selecting a candidate with potentially huge legal problems, and the fact that Sanders polls much better against Trump.)

Clinton does not inspire me at all. Becoming the first woman nominated by a major party is a historic achievement to be sure, but everything else about her leaves me cold. A Clinton presidency will just be more and more and more of the same. The world needs better.

So – how far will Bernie go? As of last night he was refusing to end his bid:

But on a night when it became clear that Clinton would secure a majority of pledged delegates, Sanders refused to bow out, telling supporters that their fight would continue to the Democratic National Convention in July.

Barack Obama has extended an olive branch to Sanders – see the statement below. Will Sanders take it, and commit his support to Clinton at the convention? Would Sanders supporters buy it if he did, or would they just stay home? Can Sanders actually achieve anything by falling in to line, or is Obama’s offer just words? Would Sanders go so far as to stand in the presidential election as an independent, and would that hand Trump the presidency? What would that mean for the world?

Interesting times.

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BM 1

9 June 2016 at 7:37 am

Sanders is obviously a delusional ego manic.
- tophat 1.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 8:07 am
  
  That’s rich coming from you.
  They all are, it’s requisite for the job.
- adam 1.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 8:12 am
  
  Takes one to know one I surpose
  - Tony Veitch (not the partner-bashing 3rd rate broadcaster) 1.2.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 8:15 am
    
    No, IMO Bernie shouldn’t stand down now. The more air time he gets, especially at the convention, the more exposure his message receives, and the more he’ll back Clinton into a corner. He owes it to the millions of young Americans who he has awoken from their lethargy, to keep on shouting the message.
    
    Ah, we need a Sanders or a Corbyn in this country!
    - The Pink Postman 1.2.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 3:06 pm
      
      Agree Tony . Our job is make sure our party leaders agree with us.I’m sure we have quite a few and I’m sure Andrew Thinks that way. Beware of Right-Wingers who are terrified the move Left is happening ,just watch their cunning nasty ways to halt any move to the left .They will pull out all the dirty tricks they can to stop any move to return Labour to its natural roots.
      - Akldnut 1.2.1.1.1
        
        10 June 2016 at 2:08 pm
        
        +1 TPP, after the last election we were sent a email from HQ asking for our thoughts giving members input on the direction of the party and how we would achieve a better result. Uniting the left, working in harmony with the Greens and then moving left (not in those words) was my input which is the general gist of what sanders is saying.
    - OneTrack 1.2.1.2
      
      9 June 2016 at 8:04 pm
      
      You already have a Little, a Turei and a Shaw. What else do you need?
- KJT 1.3
  
  9 June 2016 at 8:16 am
  
  I would think the egomaniacs are Trump and Clinton. Both going for President despite the highest unfavourability ratings of any recent candidate.
  - dukeofurl 1.3.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 9:04 am
    
    Thats right its allways someone carrying the golden apple who would make the best president
    - Enough is Enough 1.3.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 10:21 am
      
      What?
- save nz 1.4
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:08 am
  
  @ BM If Sanders is a delusional ego manic, what is Trump and what is Clinton?
  - BM 1.4.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 9:19 am
    
    what is Trump and what is Clinton?
    
    Winners unlike Sanders.
    
    Sanders has convinced himself he’s the messiah and is on this holy quest to save the world.
    
    That’s why he won’t stop.
    - KJT 1.4.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 11:47 am
      
      Pity the USA is not a Democracy. Polls show that Sanders and his policies win hands down.
      Especially with the young.
      - Clare 1.4.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 1:26 pm
        
        +1
    - mpledger 1.4.1.2
      
      9 June 2016 at 2:13 pm
      
      The longer Sanders stays in, the more Trump’s attacks are split against Clinton and Sanders, diluting them. That’s great for Clinton because the more she can delay Trumps misogynists attacks, until as close to the election as possible, the higher the Democratic turn-out will be.
      
      Holding on is sensible for Sanders because there is still a chance that the Democrats will balk at having a women President.
      
      There is nothing good in Sanders staying in for the Republicans. They can’t play their game if they don’t know you they are playing against.
    - Guerilla Surgeon 1.4.1.3
      
      9 June 2016 at 2:50 pm
      
      That’s not necessarily why he won’t stop. The more support he garners, the more bargaining power he has over policy. Hopefully Clinton will take notice of this.
      - BM 1.4.1.3.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 3:48 pm
        
        So you reckon Sanders won’t back Clinton unless she does what he wants?
        
        Looks like Trumps going to be Prez then.
        
        One Anonymous Bloke 1.4.1.3.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 9:35 pm
        
        🙄
        
        That’s a desperate strawman, even for you.
    - Stuart Munro 1.4.1.4
      
      9 June 2016 at 2:57 pm
      
      Trump isn’t a winner – and he’s useless businessman, who, like Nick Smith, tries to parlay his failures into successes post facto. Trump is better at it than Nick, but still a villain. Students of Trump university, or the locals near Trump’s failed Scottish golf course would cheerfully throttle the crook.
      
      Sanders is a decent human being BM – your natural enemy.
      
      Clinton and Trump are weiners not winners.
      - Johan 1.4.1.4.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 7:59 pm
        
        “Sanders is a decent human being BM – your natural enemy,” got in one SM. There is a lot of angst in the USA ever since the collapse and bail-out of their financial institutions.
    - Rodel 1.4.1.5
      
      9 June 2016 at 7:48 pm
      
      BM on 1 and 1.4.1
      Interesting statements/opinions.. And your evidence for these astute conclusions is?
Policy Parrot 2

9 June 2016 at 8:19 am

Sanders has reinvigorated Democratic Party politics for the next generation, he should have be given some kind of ongoing role where he can use his rhetoric and tenacity to continue his battle.

Perhaps if he can soothe enough ruffled Democrat feathers, Democratic Senate Leader? Harry Reid is resigning – and if the Democrats became the majority after this Senate election, he would have influence over the legislative agenda. And he could inspire US voters to start acting on the legislative gridlock which holds the country back.
- dukeofurl 2.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:46 am
  
  Sanders is not even a Democrat- he won election to Senate as an independent.
  There is no way the Senators would vault him over others who have been in their leadership group.
  
  he will sink back into the obscurity from which he came. Thats how it works. Even Sarah Palin is a nobody now and once she was a bright star on the republican right.
  - Policy Parrot 2.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 12:07 pm
    
    There is nothing stopping Democrats from nominating Sanders to be Senate Majority Leader in the event they control the Senate. Such a suggestion would enable Sanders to continue campaigning in coordination with the DSCC, and for the DSCC to take advantage of the momentum built up by his campaign, and tie up those who might be otherwise tempted to make mischief.
    - the pigman 2.1.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 8:14 pm
      
      Except that the Democrats don’t want a social democratic policy platform.
      
      Hell, they’ve more than proven they don’t much like democracy at all.
    - dukeofurl 2.1.1.2
      
      10 June 2016 at 10:23 am
      
      Hes not a Democrat ! Why should they give him a leadership position
Tautoko Mangō Mata 3

9 June 2016 at 8:23 am

BM- read the full article (link below) and understand that if people have nothing to lose and feel unrepresented politically, then they will rise up. It is hard if you have never been poor to empathise with others outside your comfort sphere, but please start trying.

“On July 25, opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Cheri Honkala, leader of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, who was denied a permit to march by city authorities, will rally with thousands of protesters outside City Hall. Defying the police, they will march up Broad Street to the convention.
…..
She said that the difference between the march she led in 2000 and the one planned for July is that “things are four times worse.” She spoke about her north Philadelphia neighborhood, Kensington, the poorest district in the state. It has one of the highest homicide rates in the nation. It has a large homeless population. It has a poverty rate of 46.9 percent. The food bank is protected by barbed wire.

“Back then, someone could work three or even four jobs and barely survive,” she said. “I live in a neighborhood now of the permanently unemployed. There is an underground economy. We have to collectively keep each other alive. There are hundreds of young men who are not just attempting to live on a dollar a day, but go a couple of weeks with nothing. We try to figure out how to find food and housing. We try to figure out how to keep alive.”

The loss of faith in the political system and neoliberal ideology is widespread. The corporate elites are pouring $5 billion into the carnival of presidential electoral politics in a desperate bid to keep us mesmerized and controlled. Democracy is endlessly invoked on the airwaves to legitimize the corporate and political forces that have destroyed it. Congress has an approval rating of 11 percent. Half of qualified voters are not registered to vote, and half of registered voters do not go to the polls. A little more than half of 25 percent—no more than 15 percent—of the electorate determines who becomes president. And this is the way the elites want it.

In our system of inverted totalitarianism, the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin pointed out, the object is to demobilize the citizenry, to render it apathetic, to convince the citizen that all political activity that does not take place within the narrow boundaries defined by the corporate state is futile. This is a message hammered into public consciousness by the corporate media, which serve as highly paid courtiers to the corporate elites. It is championed by the two parties that offer up fear of the other as their primary political platform.

https://www.popularresistance.org/shut-down-the-democratic-national-convention/

Sanders is the only voice for these people.
- Ad 3.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:25 am
  
  They already rose up.
  It wasn’t enough.
  - adam 3.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 9:43 am
    
    Oh please, your sad capitulation to the elites is tired, almost as boring as your defeatism.
    - dukeofurl 3.1.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 9:51 am
      
      Even those who voted for Sanders when asked about specific policies he promotes didnt even support those, as polls have found.
      
      Hes an egg shell candidate
      - adam 3.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:09 am
        
        What does that even mean – egg shell candidate? A talking point?
        
        I think most young people are smarter than what you give them credit for.
        
        I’d just compare voting records dukefurl, then you may get an idea of the differences.
        
        your comment about him not being a democrat was the clinton campaign talking point for the New York primary – just shows how little you understand the USA political system.
        
        dukeofurl 3.1.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:28 am
        
        Easter Egg candidate then.
        
        This is USA !
        ” that Mr. Sanders’s surprising success in the primary race is because of his liberal policy positions — may be familiar and comforting, but it is greatly exaggerated.”
        
        “Mr. Sanders, on the other hand, is a sort of anti-Clinton — a political maverick from lily-white Vermont whose main claim to fame has been his insistence on calling himself an independent, a socialist, anything but a Democrat. That history has made him a convenient vessel for antipathy to Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic establishment and some of the party’s key constituencies. But it is a mistake to assume that voters who support Mr. Sanders because he is not Mrs. Clinton necessarily favor his left-leaning policy views.”
        Thats you to a tee!
        http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/opinion/campaign-stops/do-sanders-supporters-favor-his-policies.html
        ”
        Exit polls conducted in two dozen primary and caucus states from early February through the end of April reveal only modest evidence of ideological structure in Democratic voting patterns”
        
        adam …
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:33 am
        
        Again, with dribble – the New York Times your kidding right. The exit polls and I’ve seen them, are not good.
        
        The UN when it observes elections call into question the legitimacy of an election when the exit polls are out by 0.05%
        
        Go on – the exit polls are on line, look for yourself, not a second hand source spinning it for the Candidate they put money into.
        
        A surprise candidate was Bernie – interesting…
Colonial Viper 4

9 June 2016 at 8:27 am

They won’t even offer Sanders VP. Obama has been a pro-establishment choice and remains a pro-establishment chooser.
- AmaKiwi 4.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:17 am
  
  Sanders would be unlikely to accept VP. It’s a job that is powerless unless the president wants the VP to have power. In the Senate he could be more influential by trying to pull Senate Democrats more to the left.
- Phil 4.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 12:46 pm
  
  They won’t even offer Sanders VP.
  
  So what?
  
  Obama didn’t offer Clinton the VP slot, despite their primary campaign in ’08 being closer fought than Clinton/Sanders in ’16.
- McFlock 4.3
  
  9 June 2016 at 1:00 pm
  
  VP is a bridesmaid position. No power other than to exist.
  
  A cabinet post, or a senate post, on the other hand, with concessions for some legislative reform (probably in labour relations or debt?)
  
  Sanders has a lot of leverage to placed somewhere with more clout than VP. He’s the only hope of persuading a whole chunk of his supporters to vote for Clinton.
- joe90 4.4
  
  9 June 2016 at 1:11 pm
  
  They won’t even offer Sanders VP.
  
  Yeah, given the chance the old white guy could still save us.
  /
- Michael 4.5
  
  9 June 2016 at 4:00 pm
  
  Sanders would be silly to take the VP seat.
  
  He’d be chairing committees in a likely Democratic-majority senate, including the budget committee.
  
  He’d have major influence including on cabinet/Clinton administration nominees.
  
  And his elevated status means he can wield much more power in the Senate by using his huge new movement behind him.
Xanthe 5

9 June 2016 at 8:28 am

The superdelegates dont vote until the convention , it is wrong to call this on the basis of media ringing up superdelegates and asking them who they support.
Bernie is taking this to the convention because thats the proper thing to do!
- dukeofurl 5.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:08 am
  
  Its silly of you to think otherwise. Even if super delegates were awarded proportionally by each state like ordinary delegates, Sanders would still lose- because hes behind in the primary votes as well.
- Grantoc 5.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:30 am
  
  Xanthe
  
  The super delegates have stated their preferences publicly already and are committed to their stances – whether it is to Sanders or Clinton. Historically it is very rare for them to change their minds.
  
  Clinton’s super delegates will not switch to Sanders because:
  
  i. Clinton has won the most pledged delegates;
  ii. Clinton has won the popular vote in the Democratic primaries.
  
  She is the clear winner and Sanders is the clear loser. The super delegates will act accordingly.
  - Crashcart 5.2.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 1:52 pm
    
    Where do you get “Historically it is very rare for them to change their minds”?.
    
    As recently as the last primary HRC had a more than 100 SD lead over Obama. However when it became clear that he would win the majority of pledged delegates the majority of SD’s switched to Obama. Historically they have not voted in a way that would result in the person with less pledged delegates winning. This of course goes against Bernie as he clearly will have less of those.
    
    In this case it would take something extraordinary for them to change I agree. I think HRC will be the nominee even if she were to be indicted for the email scandal.
    
    However it is the right thing for Bernie to keep pushing up to the convention. Millions of donors have paid for him to do so. Not only this the major reason establishment Democrats want him to drop is so that HRC can pivot to the centre earlier so that she can position for the General. Or as they put it switch focus to Trump. Bernie staying in the race forces her to remain left of where she wants to be much longer and makes it harder for her to make a sudden pivot to the centre for the general.
    
    Bernie’s whole goal now is to keep the conversation to the left of where it has been for years. He doesn’t achieve that by dropping out.
    - Grantoc 5.2.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 3:47 pm
      
      Crashcart
      
      Good point re the 2008 primary.
      
      I suspect though that there are a couple of crucial differences between then and now.
      
      Firstly HC announced that she was abandoning her attempt to win the nomination at about this time in the process, at which point her super delegates would have been ‘released’.
      
      And secondly Obama was in the position that HC is in now – had the requisite number of delegates to win the nomination, along with the most votes. It may be that some of Sander’s super delegates now switch to HC for the same reason..
    - Paul Campbell 5.2.1.2
      
      9 June 2016 at 7:40 pm
      
      the Republicans are still crashing about, trying to pin emailgate/benghazi on Clinton, they see it as their October surprise …. if they manage to stick enough dirt to her prior to the convention that she’s seen as damaged goods the superdelagates likely would change their minds.
      
      On the other hand that would be a dangerous games for Sanders to play for directly, if he damages her but loses and mud he’s thrown would stick during the November election damaging the Democrats as a whole. At the moment I think he should stay the course to the convention, it gives them a backup candidate
      - Colonial Viper 5.2.1.2.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 7:51 pm
        
        Clinton is responsible for both “emailgate” and the Benghazi killing of her diplomatic staff. The US should not have been funnelling arms from Gaddaffi’s army’s stashes to Islamic terrorists in Syria via the US embassy. Clinton would have had to have signed off on all of that.
        
        One Anonymous Bloke 5.2.1.2.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 9:40 pm
        
        🙄
        
        The broad Labour ‘church’ would be sometimes better depicted as a river: parts of it are shallow.
        
        dukeofurl 5.2.1.2.1.2
        
        10 June 2016 at 10:31 am
        
        That Benghazi thing is rubbish. The Republicans have been investigating that for longer than the 911 and Pearl harbour enquires and have got nothing.
        Its good for the GOP to know they have got inside your head and found a home.
- Phil 5.3
  
  9 June 2016 at 12:48 pm
  
  it is wrong to call this on the basis of … superdelegates
  
  In ’08, Obama’s win was called once he crossed the Pledged- plus Super- delegate threshold.
  
  Nobody complained then. Why is now different?
  - Crashcart 5.3.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 1:54 pm
    
    The minor chance the HRC is indicted over the email scandal is the only reason any Bernie supporter could hold out. In reality she will win the nomination. It is still very different from 08 for that reason as Obama had no major scandal like that on his horizon.
    - Phil 5.3.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 4:50 pm
      
      The probability of Clinton losing the nomination in ’16 because of her email is basically the same as the probability of Obama losing the nomination in ’08 because of his birth certificate.
      - Colonial Viper 5.3.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 7:54 pm
        
        She misused and miscommunicated secret and top secret materials. That’s a pretty major Federal crime.
        
        One Anonymous Bloke 5.3.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 9:44 pm
        
        The deep state will be angry with her now!
        
        Colonial Viper …
        
        9 June 2016 at 9:47 pm
        
        the Deep State only enforces the laws against people it no longer favours or requires.
        
        joe90 …
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:00 pm
        
        I doubt the deep state favours or requires former CIA director Petraeus’s one time squeeze yet here we are.
        
        A newly unsealed FBI search warrant reveals that agents found hundreds of classified documents on Paula Broadwell’s computers when they searched her Charlotte home in 2012, part of the agency’s investigation into her relationship with then CIA Director David
        
        […]
        
        Broadwell, the author of Petraeus’ biography, was never charged.
        
        http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article82460877.html#storylink=cpy.
        
        Colonial Viper …
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:04 pm
        
        I do wish that you would use your considerable intelligence to think more than one dimensionally.
Tiger Mountain 6

9 June 2016 at 8:28 am

Bernie and supporters have done the great service of conclusively showing that the Democrat (and Republican) structures are bent beyond redemption

in a straighter contest Bernie would have been the nominee, financed by micro donation, as well as winning 22 states he came very close in many others, the movement Bernie encapsulated must continue such is the degeneracy of US politics–arise President Trump…

I was bought up on generally supporting the lesser of two evils in political contests, but not this time, Clinton will not even need to be ‘captured’ by the usual suspects as was Obama, and Trump despite appearing to be ‘peak whacko’ will fall into line too if he wants to last the year out

Bernie should stand as an independent and call the bluff, a fundamental change in class power that lasts beyond electoral cycles is what is needed in the USA
- dukeofurl 6.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:16 am
  
  Sanders is well behind in the primary vote counts
  Clinton 15.8mill
  Sanders 12.1 mill
  
  How does being that far behind in actual votes cast get to be the nominee??
  
  Yes in your fairy tale , she is the wicked witch but Sanders is also the Mad hatter.
  - Tiger Mountain 6.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 9:35 am
    
    the short answer is Bernies vote count was sabotaged by the Democratic Party so he has the moral and political justification to go to the convention as an organising focus and then make a decision of whether to stand as an independent
    
    “rolling over” is just what reactionary conservatives are calling for, the US people deserve more than subservience to a party machine well past its useby
    - dukeofurl 6.1.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 10:01 am
      
      Sabotaged ? How
      
      Theres a word for people like you who dont have any cogent arguments .
      - adam 6.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:13 am
        
        Vote rigging, strange and odd rules, 100,000 missing voters in New York, and calling elections before they happen. You know the usual shannagins. Are you being obtuse on purpose dukefurl? Or do you really not follow the news? Did Arizona, Kentucky and Puerto Rico just pass you by?
        
        dukeofurl 6.1.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:31 am
        
        hes behind millions of votes man !
        Even some states that had caucus and primary, where Bernie won the caucus ( and majority of delegates) he lost the primary!
        
        adam …
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:38 am
        
        So your attack on Tiger Mountain was unfounded, and disingenuous.
        
        Now you have changed tack.
        
        What next, the Police Chief Wiggum defence???
        
        dukeofurl …
        
        10 June 2016 at 10:37 am
        
        The primarys are run by the County like a normal election, has nothing to do with democratic party, but caucuses ARE run by the party.
        
        Guess where Bernie has done better , thats right the caucus, its rare for him to win an actual election of the voters.
        
        You could say, based on who runs what, that Bernie has been supported by party officials to get more delegates than his chances in an actual election were. ALL of this is true if you were construction a conspiracy.
    - Grantoc 6.1.1.2
      
      9 June 2016 at 1:37 pm
      
      TM
      
      Can you explain exactly how Sander’s vote was ‘sabotaged by the Democratic Party”?
      
      If it was, what, if anything is Sanders doing about it?
      - Crashcart 6.1.1.2.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 1:59 pm
        
        Disenfranchised voters in a number of states. Reduced polling booths in a number of states. Questionable reporting procedures in a number of states.
        
        Ad on to this counting super delegate in her total from before the first Primary giving an impression that she was already locked in which suppresses Bernie’s vote.
        
        HRC probably would have won the primary even with out these things. it was stupid of the DNC to allow this sort of stuff to muddy the waters as a clean win would have helped HRC far more than the mess that has been.
        
        Tiger Mountain 6.1.1.2.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 2:46 pm
        
        state by state you can usually find something that indicates the field was tilted, structurally the Democrats are set up to get the result head office wants
        
        Bernie is not sticking to their script now either, I agree with Crashcart a straight contest would probably have seen Bernie concede
        
        the msm was the extra player in all of this on Clinton’s team with piling on the Superdelegate votes very early in the Primary contest schedule, I checked a number of US sources and the Bernie Blackout was pretty blatant
Colonial Viper 7

9 June 2016 at 8:30 am

Let’s not forget the AP making a ridiculously timed call, based on anonymous sources, just before the Californian primary, on a day that there was no voting, that it was all Clinton’s. Plenty of commentators have said that it looks like collusion.
- Tiger Mountain 7.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 8:43 am
  
  well that media stunt was just depressingly obvious, hello–the day before voting in California
  - mauī 7.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 8:45 am
    
    Look out for similar media tricks here next year.
    - DoublePlusGood 7.1.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 10:02 am
      
      “New poll says National would govern alone!”
      - Stuart Munro 7.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 3:57 pm
        
        Yep – and “As polls clearly show Key would win elections cancelled to save money”.
Colonial Viper 8

9 June 2016 at 8:37 am

How California denies independent voters ballot forms at the polling booth:

[Los Angeles] It’s not some grand conspiracy, but it’s grand theft nonetheless. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ voters will lose their ballots, their rights, by the tens of thousands.

The steal is baked into the way California handles No Party Preference –”NPP” voters –what we know as “independents.”

There are a mind-blowing 4.2 million voters in California registered NPP – and they share a love for sunshine and Bernie Sanders. According to the reliable Golden State poll, among NPP voters, Sen. Sanders whoops Sec. Hillary Clinton by a stunning 40 percentage points.

On the other team, registered Democrats prefer Clinton by a YUGE 30 points. NPP’s can vote in the Democratic primary, so, the California primary comes down to a fight between D’s and NPP’s.

And there’s the rub. In some counties like Los Angeles, it’s not easy for an NPP to claim their right vote in the Democratic primary – and in other counties, nearly impossible.

Example: In Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, if you don’t say the magic words, “I want a Democratic crossover ballot,” you are automatically given a ballot without the presidential race. And ready for this, if an NPP voter asks the poll worker, “How do I get to vote in the Democratic party primary, they are instructed to say that, “NPP voters can’t get Democratic ballots.” They are ordered not to breathe a word that the voter can get a “crossover” ballot that includes the presidential race.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-08/how-californias-primary-was-rigged-against-independent-voters
- dukeofurl 8.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:36 am
  
  Its a very complicated system, as the statewide primary rules are slightly different from nationwide primary rules.
  
  You are assuming that NPP turnout in the same proportion as those registered which is not the case. They are mostly the least engaged in party political enthusiasm.
  
  And if they are NPP and DO VOTE Dem then their registration is changed to Dem for the next vote.
  
  Its clear they DONT vote in the primaries as much as those of the registered parties
adam 9

9 June 2016 at 8:40 am

Bernie will stay, the aim is get people into the senate and house of representatives.

I also think might be a good idea to have options as the Clinton Foundation is looking more and more like goose who stole all the eggs.

Rockey is staying in as well, look for some fun at the convention, about the how the DNC has run this campaign and voter fraud.

Just because vote fixing is a historical part of elections in the USA, does not mean this generation is going to roll over and accept it.

Ever get the feeling that deception will make lies of the Democratic party, this is how they will lose the general election, by all this mess.

Oh, and quite a few people see Hilary for what she is – via her voting record.

Finally, get the feeling that some spine is coming back to the left. No need to roll over to the wet liberals, and the hopelessly defeated.
- dukeofurl 9.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:35 am
  
  Really.?Its too late
  The primaries for those positions are OVER now as well.
  
  Since you have all the answers where did “bernies candidates’ win over the others?
  
  But of course you were thinking out loud, and doing some cosmic dreaming to boot.
  - adam 9.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 10:44 am
    
    Again what does cosmic dreaming to boot even mean in what you are trying to say?
    
    I mean do you even care there is one primary left? Obviously not.
    
    What is over is the majority of primaries – the convention is a month and a half away.
    
    There are other election in November as well you know.
    
    So please, try harder with your hard right diatribes next time.
    - dukeofurl 9.1.1.1
      
      10 June 2016 at 10:43 am
      
      Again you have a 10 year olds idea of how it works. The convention is ONLY for the presidential election. primaries have decided who the candidates for Democratic party for local level and national level house and senate.
      Bernie cant get a candidate for any postion in November unless they won their local primary.
      he hasnt been working for local supporters at all.
Ad 10

9 June 2016 at 8:47 am

The thing Sanders could have done over a month ago was direct his supporters to form a single new superPAC to assist in contesting Congress and Senate races. But he didn’t.

Or he could have made a run for Vice President with Hillary. Or other major Cabinet office. But he didn’t.

Or he could have directed all his campaign capacity over to Hillary, and revived the Democratic Party super-fast. But he didn’t.

Or thrown his weight behind the Greens Party. But he didn’t.

Or stood as an independent ……….

…….. whatever. He did none of those things, and has now delivered his supporters nothing concrete for all their efforts. Their anger is going to be unanswered, because he has shown him to be a one trick pony with no leadership skill in the actual game of politics.

Sanders is now just coasting on the usual male privilege that we have seen from applications the world over. It’s the male privilege of being assumed to be the more righteous, more virtuous, more competent and more worthy than the female applicant, no matter the process. Even though she has demonstrated her value to the agreed application process against all objective measures. So he gets to demand to see the boss and have a vent of his righteousness. Wanker.

Sanders’ graceless sexist loser behavior is simply trashing his supporters own latent hard-left movement.

And in case we haven’t noticed, Hillary’s speech last Thursday listing why Trump was unfit to lead was more accurate and prescient to the election than Sanders’ standard trope about ‘revolution’. It’s now going to be contested on precisely Democratic ground that appreciates Hillary Clinton: pro-Latin, pro-black, pro-women.
- adam 10.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:31 am
  
  Did you even read your first sentence back Ad? Did you actually take an interest in what Bernie said? Because what you have said, almost verbatim – is the talking points put out by the Clinton campaign over the last 4 weeks.
  
  Just an observation.
  - Ad 10.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 11:02 am
    
    Let Sanders go now.
    Be gentle to yourself.
    - adam 10.1.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 11:10 am
      
      I’m a Jill Stein supporter.
      
      I thought you knew that, as I’ve said it quite a few times.
      
      Just find it funny when you copy talking points.
      
      Bernie is not with the Greens, not even close – he is at best a new dealer.
      
      I found it even funnier that you seem to happy to ignore her voting record, which does not seem to match up with what else you wrote.
      
      But what is funnier, is you don’t even get the criticism.
      
      Just an observation.
- DoublePlusGood 10.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:11 am
  
  Except Clinton’s right wing economic policies result in women, Hispanics and African Americans all being worse off. So she isn’t pro- any of them, she just says she is.
  - Ad 10.2.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 11:02 am
    
    Citation required.
    - DoublePlusGood 10.2.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 11:44 am
      
      You need a citation to know about the problems in America? The level of poverty and unemployment? The massive transfer of wealth to the very rich? Seriously, just google something.
      - Ad 10.2.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 2:14 pm
        
        A citation that Hillary Clinton’s policies will cause what you state.
        
        Seriously, get off your ass.
        
        DoublePlusGood 10.2.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 2:45 pm
        
        What part of the neoliberal economic status quo doesn’t produce that?
        
        Colonial Viper 10.2.1.1.1.2
        
        9 June 2016 at 7:57 pm
        
        Hilary Clinton’s White House economic team will consist almost exclusively of former Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan bankers. That should tell you something Ad.
- weka 10.3
  
  9 June 2016 at 11:09 am
  
  Wow Ad. Specious, disingenous and nasty. That’s an argument worthy of Crosby Textor and some of the more bizarre RWNJs on ts.
  
  Specious, because in playing the gender card you appear to be relying solely on the fact that Sanders is a man and Clinton is a woman, which is a ridiculously pathetic attempt at gender political analysis. Do you have any evidence that Sanders is being sexist in this situation? There has been a huge amount of feminist critique of Clinton and the problem of having a woman like her running in this race.
  
  Disingenous because for months you’ve made it obvious that you hold Sanders in contempt, and now you are using bullshit gender politics to further that agenda.
  
  Nasty speaks for itself.
  - Crashcart 10.3.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 2:05 pm
    
    Exactly. you don’t see Sanders accusing her of being an Anti Semite because she hasn’t ceded to allow him to be the first Jewish nominee of a major party.
    
    There are a lot of reasons people like HRC. Good ones. Same for Sanders. It is really annoying when people try to call Sanders, one of the people with the best voting records in congress, a sexist.
  - Ad 10.3.2
    
    9 June 2016 at 2:16 pm
    
    Nope. Hillary has made gender front and Centre.
    
    The grace needs to come from the loser, Sanders.
    - Crashcart 10.3.2.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 2:20 pm
      
      Exactly. HRC made it about Gender, not Bernie. To then label him sexist is ignorant at best and more likely dishonest. Are you an anti Semite for saying he should drop out? no of course not.
      
      Of course if you can come up with some real statement or vote he has made in the past that would show him to be sexist I am sure a lot of people here would be willing to take your argument a lot more seriously.
      - Ad 10.3.2.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 2:23 pm
        
        It’s his behaviour, as explained.
        
        Colonial Viper 10.3.2.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 2:43 pm
        
        A black woman explains why it’s Bernie or bust for her. And why she will never vote Clinton.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-QI_qsakmk
        
        weka …
        
        9 June 2016 at 3:25 pm
        
        Very good commentary.
        
        Lolz the Clinton woman saying that Clinton’s historical lying is Clinton’s biggest vulnerability. More soberly, the Clinton woman sounds exactly like the Crosy Textor bullshit speak we get here.
        
        Crashcart 10.3.2.1.1.2
        
        9 June 2016 at 2:55 pm
        
        What his behaviour of not conceding? how in the hell is that sexist. His past behaviour and voting would indicate that her sex has absolutely nothing to do with it. It wouldn’t matter if he was up against a Man, Woman, or mildly intelligent goat (see Donald Trump).
        
        He is staying in the race because:
        
        a) He has policy he wants to keep at the forefront.
        b) There is an incredibly small chance HRC will be indicted and an even smaller chance this would result in SD’s switching.
        c) He has the money to do so. Money donated to him by millions of supporters that want him to keep going.
        
        But yea sure it is all because he is a sexist loser.
        
        weka 10.3.2.1.1.3
        
        9 June 2016 at 2:59 pm
        
        No, you haven’t explained it. You’ve misappropriated gender politics and asserted something without any real reason. In other words, you just made a bunch of shit up. Sanders and Clinton approach gender differently. As I said there is plenty of feminist critique of Clinton, why do you ignore that and assert that because she has pro-women campaigns that Sanders is sexist? It just doesn’t make sense. Worse, it’s pretty fucked up seeing a left wing man arguing this on a political site.
        
        marty mars …
        
        9 June 2016 at 3:13 pm
        
        + 1
Andre 11

9 June 2016 at 8:52 am

IMO Bernie should stay in for the convention vote. Because there remains the very slim possibility that something really really smelly crawls out of the e-mails investigation.

Hillary has endured more than a quarter century of demonisation and dirty politics from Republicans. Hell, Bill had barely been inaugurated before “Impeach Clinton. And her husband” started appearing on bumper stickers and graffittied onto highway underpasses. I used to drive past one every day, and it never got cleaned off (it was a strongly Republican county). So some of the mud has unfairly stuck, she’s not a natural teflon politician.

So yes, her foreign policy views are vicious and brutal. Yes, she’s taken a lot of money from Wall Street. Yes, she has supported policies that result in grossly disproportionate incarceration of people of colour. But apart from those stains, she has a good solid progressive record that she is most likely to continue in office. Including a plan to rein in Wall Street that most credible commentators think is better than Bernie’s.

So while I would much rather it was Bernie, I look forward to Hillary continuing incremental progress rather than the regression we would have under a (hypothetical) moderate Republican. And if by some bad-acid-trip turn of events the stygian homunculus actually gets elected, dear lord help us.
Puckish Rogue 12

9 June 2016 at 9:10 am

Whats the time frame for the FBI to lay charges against Clinton?
- Andre 12.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:11 am
  
  Whatever they choose.
  - dukeofurl 12.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 9:24 am
    
    The FBI only investigates, the choice to lay charges is down to the Attorney General appointed by Obama
    - adam 12.1.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 9:35 am
      
      Maybe not, if it is in relation to the Clinton foundation – then any Attorney General from any state will do.
      - dukeofurl 12.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 9:38 am
        
        Wrong again. Its a Federal case so its through the US Attorney General
      - dukeofurl 12.1.1.1.2
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:06 am
        
        FBI are not investigating Clinton Foundation. You have been reading too many crazy websites.
        But your idea that FBI investigates for state AGs is nonsensical.
        
        adam 12.1.1.1.2.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 11:02 am
        
        AH, no the case that was investigated was around her use of email.
        
        That case has gone in another direction. You might want to look at your blessed New York times.
        
        Now the problem for the clintons, is that there foundation, is a registered in more than one state. So a federal investigation – yes, but the states still have rights to prosecute.
    - Andre 12.1.1.2
      
      9 June 2016 at 9:39 am
      
      That raises the bar on how smelly it would need to be before laying charges. From a timing point of view, I haven’t heard of any statute of limitations deadlines. I’m confident the FBI is being extraordinarily careful to ensure the timing of any announcements is fully justifiable by the progress of the investigation and discovery of evidence.
    - Puckish Rogue 12.1.1.3
      
      9 June 2016 at 9:45 am
      
      I’m wondering if Saunders is hanging on long enough until charges are laid maybe?
    - whispering kate 12.1.1.4
      
      9 June 2016 at 10:26 am
      
      I have read somewhere where the FBI have stated, if they do not get, on their evidence, to indict Clinton, then they will whistle blow and release their information as there is, in their eyes, sufficient evidence in the emails to indict her (in their opinion). Key in Google and there is plenty on what the FBI think of this indictment.
      - dukeofurl 12.1.1.4.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:41 am
        
        have you read what the so called secrets are, they were public knowledge!
        
        One email had the minutes of a secret meeting between the Palestinians and Israel , the person sending the email had got them from an Al Jazerra documentary.
        Another very high level secret- special access is just that US drones are used for strikes in Pakistan.
        Its everyday knowledge yet officially its top secret because it breaks an international treaty and harms relations with Pakistan. The email info was taken from pages of NY Times.
        
        Not related to this case but US government people have lost their jobs because they have said Israel has nuclear weapons, thats an official secret as well.
        
        Crashcart 12.1.1.4.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 2:10 pm
        
        The content is less relevant than the classification. I don’t get to read a Top Secret document and then decide that I think the info is fine for public release and email it to my home account. The moment it has a classification it has to be handled correctly. Christ if you accidentally stamp a blank document with Secret you have to go through a proper disposal process even though there is no info there.
        
        dukeofurl …
        
        10 June 2016 at 10:49 am
        
        Thats the absurdity, they got the info from open sources.
        How can you be revealing a ‘special access secret’ when you didnt have the special access to start with.
    - Colonial Viper 12.1.1.5
      
      9 June 2016 at 10:37 am
      
      The FBI only investigates, the choice to lay charges is down to the Attorney General appointed by Obama
      
      the FBI lays federal charges on its own initiative all of the time without referring cases to the Attorney General.
      
      That is, in cases without this kind of high level political interference being run by the White House.
      - dukeofurl 12.1.1.5.1
        
        10 June 2016 at 10:54 am
        
        Total nonsense.
        What does the I in FBI stand for. Every case they handle that goes to court has to have a federal prosecutor behind it.
        This is common knowlege, Im surprised you made such a simple error.
        
        “Does the FBI work through U. S. Attorneys?
        
        Yes. Although the FBI is responsible for investigating possible violations of federal law, the FBI does not give an opinion or decide if an individual will be prosecuted. The federal prosecutors employed by the Department of Justice or the U.S. Attorneys offices are responsible for making this decision and for conducting the prosecution of the case.”
        FBI FAQ.
        http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/faqs
save nz 13

9 June 2016 at 9:11 am

Bernie should stick to his guns till the end. Negotiate the best position for himself to help the US out of their neoliberal nightmare.

Clinton is not going to do it so the US will continue to decline taking out other countries with their ideology. And Trump – who knows what he will do!
- Olwyn 13.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:32 am
  
  I agree. Sanders is on a mission, and should do what he must to advance that mission. Clinton, in comparison, is after the top job within the status quo, and the status quo is horrible. It is horrible to giggle at the death of an opponent, it is horrible to prance about in a $17,000 jacket and bleat about inequality. It is horrible to regard unflinching cruelty as the mark of political maturity. It is horrible to facilitate the destruction of your own country’s real economic base and then turn your guns on countries that haven’t followed suit. Sanders is right. The system has to change, and the longer that is postponed the worse the results will be.
  - Colonial Viper 13.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 10:40 am
    
    It is horrible to giggle at the death of an opponent
    
    You mean the crippled, half blind, elderly man who was unarmed and already in captivity by the Pakistan intelligence services.
    - Olwyn 13.1.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 11:27 am
      
      That one too – I was talking about the “We came, we saw, he died, titter-titter” moment on TV following the death Gaddafi, whose body was also publicly defiled. I find blindness to the difference between respect and disrespect utterly chilling in a person who occupies a position of power. It sets a low standard, attracts hatred and replaces high standing with brute dominance.
      - Colonial Viper 13.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 3:06 pm
        
        Ahhh OK, I was confused for a moment there, thanks for clarifying.
  - Chooky 13.1.2
    
    9 June 2016 at 4:44 pm
    
    +100 Olwyn
- Chooky 13.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:38 am
  
  +100 save nz….and who knows Hillary Clinton may yet rule herself out with the FBI investigation, not to mention what ever else Trump has got up his sleeve on her , or what ever else comes out of the woodwork on her from other quarters
  
  …although If Trump were smart he would hold his fire until the face off with the Democratic nominee because Clinton will be easier for him to beat than Sanders, therefore it is in Trump’s interests that Clinton is nominated
  
  http://firebrandleft.com/university-100-accuracy-record-predicts-bernie-sanders-will-americas-next-president/
mikesh 14

9 June 2016 at 9:11 am

There seems to be a feeling abroad that the US and the West is spoiling for a fight with Russia, and will use the “invasion of Crimea” falsehood as a pretext for some sort of invasion. The election of Clinton as president could well be the trigger for such an event. I think Sanders should fight on and, by splitting the vote, attempt to usher Trump into the White House. While the world is entitled to feel uneasy at a Trump presisidency, I think it should terrified of a Clinton getting elected.

There is of course still the possibility that the Clinton campaign will be sunk by emailgate.
- Colonial Viper 14.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:11 am
  
  The US will continue to provoke Russia by destabilising her borderlands, and by moving more offensive missile systems right to the edge of her territory. (They call it ballistic missile defence systems but a software change can alter those missiles into offensive launch batteries at any time, and the warheads can be changed to nuclear tipped without the Romanians or others even knowing).
  - DoublePlusGood 14.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 11:51 am
    
    Russia does a pretty good job of destabilising its own borderlands by invading Donbass and Crimea and South Ossetia, wrecking Chechnya, having puppet dictators in former SSRs, meddling in Abkhazia and Transnistria – the US really doesn’t need to do a whole lot of the sort of regime change that it normally uses to destabilise things (the US’s usual MO would have seen a lot more ‘accidental’ regime changes take place than those that have occurred).
    - Colonial Viper 14.1.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 2:59 pm
      
      Donbass: please tell me what the date of the Russian invasion of Donbass was, and how many troops and armoured vehicles were involved in this “invasion.” There must be photos of tens of thousands of Russian men and thousands of Russian military vehicles crossing the Russian border into Ukraine, right?
      
      Crimea: Crimea voted overwhelmingly and democratically to join the Russian Federation.
      
      South Ossetia: you forgot the bit where Georgia, under goading by the USA, decided to initiate an invasion of South Ossetia, killing a group of Russian peacekeepers in the process. Russian forces pushed back all the way through to the Georgian capital to make a point and left shortly thereafter.
      
      Chechnya: the US supported Islamic extremists in Chechnya and intended Chechnya to turn into another Afghanistan for the Russians. The Russians didn’t play nice.
      
      And now, the US places offensive missile systems right on Russia’s door step, just a few minutes missile flight to major Russian cities.
      - DoublePlusGood 14.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 3:11 pm
        
        “democratically” you can’t have a democratic election when troops are everywhere, with massive ability to rig the vote.
        
        South Ossetia: is in Georgia. Russian ‘peacekeepers’ should not have been there.
        
        Donbass: so there’s no Russian troops at all in there?
        
        Chechnya: that’s one excuse to level the whole place, I guess. Not one that would stand up in the Hague though.
        
        Colonial Viper 14.1.1.1.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 3:17 pm
        
        1) Show me a single report which says that there was widespread fraud in the Crimean referendum. Thing is, the Kiev Government and Kiev Economy has fallen apart so fast now, if another vote was held, the % to go with Russia would be higher than ever before.
        
        2) You kill Russian soldiers, you will get Russian forces smashing down the gates of your capital. But that was just to make a point. Russian forces left soon thereafter.
        
        3) Donbass. There have been plenty of Russian soldiers given leave around the time of the Donbass fighting. Russia also provided plenty of arms and supplies to the Donbass fighters. No invasion though.
        
        4) Chechnya. Yes the Russians obliterated the place. That’s what you have to do with extremist islamist fighters.
        
        DoublePlusGood …
        
        9 June 2016 at 4:47 pm
        
        Obliterating places just tends to create more extremists.
        
        Colonial Viper …
        
        9 June 2016 at 6:19 pm
        
        That’s the US style. However Russia has completely rebuilt Grozny from the water pipes up and ensured a high degree of social services and employment throughout the city.
        
        joe90 …
        
        9 June 2016 at 6:45 pm
        
        That’s the US style
        
        .
        
        As opposed to the Chekist style – Install a corrupt merciless puppet to, when he’s not enriching himself and his family and routinely abducting, torturing and executing his political opponents, maintain control.
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/putin-nominates-ramzan-kadyrov-to-remain-chechen-leader
        
        Colonial Viper …
        
        9 June 2016 at 7:01 pm
        
        How many market places have been taken out by car bombs in Grozny compared to Baghdad over the last 10 years?
        
        How many hours a day does Grozny get electricity and water compared to Baghdad?
        
        You may not approve joe90, but your approval is not required.
        
        McFlock …
        
        9 June 2016 at 7:17 pm
        
        No. Torturers rarely seek approval from anyone.
        
        I guess bush/obama’s mistake in Iraq was not enough torture? Is that your message, CV?
        
        Colonial Viper …
        
        9 June 2016 at 7:25 pm
        
        Hi McFlock, I’m simply noticing how Russia didn’t walk away from the ruins of Grozny, and from the impoverished Chechens, even though they could have. Instead, Russia rebuilt the nation and rebuilt the city. It didn’t leave its conquest in utter chaos and poverty like the West has done over and over again.
        
        joe90 …
        
        9 June 2016 at 7:46 pm
        
        How many hours a day does Grozny get electricity and water compared to Baghdad?
        
        Yeah, had the US installed any one of a number of murderous arseholes, Muqtada al-Sadr perhaps with Abu Deraa as his number two, things in Baghdad would be just fucking peachy right now.
        /
        
        McFlock …
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:11 pm
        
        Agreed. As hegemony imperialists go, the yanks are less competent than Russian, Chinese, Belgian,English, German or French imperialists over the last couple of hundred years or so.
        
        That doesn’t excuse or even rank any of them though.
        
        Stuart Munro …
        
        10 June 2016 at 1:38 am
        
        I’d suggest you might want to leaven your RT sourced view of the Russians in Chechnya. It was a particularly brutal and decidedly racist event that probably qualifies as genocide.
        
        Zatchistka is what was going on, and few male Chechens over 16 made it out to Ingushetia. Friend of mine was there on the ground. The crimes for which you damn HRC were certainly committed in the Chechen war.
        
        This is a taste – but I think you can use Google as well as I can.
        http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/674320.html
Wayne 15

9 June 2016 at 9:21 am

Bernie has lost. He and his supporters need to accept that.
Only the craziest super delegates would go against the will of the electorate in the circumstances presented. So Bernie has no chance with them.
As some on this site know, I have always supported Hillary, and also did so in 2008. Hopefully her time has now come, not just now but also in November.
She will be a good friend of New Zesland.
- vto 15.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:38 am
  
  Fucking horse shit she will. She will be a good friend of the National Party and its wanker members, who put in place and support policies that have led to the worst housing situation for our people in decades.
  
  You and your lot are full of it. Wake up and deal with the real issues Wayne. Grow the fuck up.
  - BM 15.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 9:40 am
    
    Go back and see your doctor and get him to redo your meds.
    
    Whatever you’re on isn’t working.
    - DoublePlusGood 15.1.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 10:15 am
      
      They seem to be just fine, since vto is spot on the money.
    - marty mars 15.1.1.2
      
      9 June 2016 at 3:18 pm
      
      typical slur by you bm – trying to be smart and failing (I wonder why 🙂 🙂 ) – what a dick
      
      Good stuff vto
- One Two 15.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:00 am
  
  Hillary is a great friend of the war criminals who control her
  
  Fixed it for you, Wayne!
  - dukeofurl 15.2.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 10:07 am
    
    Obama was the anti- Clinton last time , the darling of the far left.
    
    How did that work out for you
    - One Two 15.2.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 10:13 am
      
      Surely you understand that it’s not the politicians who are running anything?
      
      All you’ve managed to achieve is putting a stamp on the point I was making, via your comment
      
      I know you didn’t mean to do that though….Thanks for the chuckle
    - Colonial Viper 15.2.1.2
      
      9 June 2016 at 10:42 am
      
      Obama was the anti- Clinton last time , the darling of the far left.
      
      You have to be shitting me.
      - Puckish Rogue 15.2.1.2.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 10:53 am
        
        Hi CV
        
        I thought you might like to consider buying this book, sounds like you need a refresher 🙂
        
        https://www.amazon.com/Audacity-Hope-Thoughts-Reclaiming-American/dp/0307455874/191-1143929-9468220?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
        
        Colonial Viper 15.2.1.2.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 12:15 pm
        
        Boy he fooled a lot of people who wanted a Black president
- Colonial Viper 15.3
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:48 am
  
  How many new wars is Clinton going to drag NZ troops into Wayne?
  - Ad 15.3.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 11:12 am
    
    Let’s see how long your long-stated support for Trump lasts …
    
    … with his finger on the Def Con 1 button,
    all non-white judges humiliated,
    all Muslims on a register or sent back home,
    all Spanish-speakers sent over the great big wall,
    all reporters on a register,
    NATO disbanded,
    Climate Change denied and Paris 21 thrown in the air, and
    all international diplomacy suspended.
    - Colonial Viper 15.3.1.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 12:30 pm
      
      Mate, most of what you wrote doesn’t even deserve a reply. In terms of NATO being disbanded…why does it even exist post Cold War? That is, apart from solidifying the US occupation of Europe?
      
      all Spanish-speakers sent over the great big wall,
      
      Seriously, you are making stuff up now.
      
      all reporters on a register,
      
      They already are under Obama.
- Stuart Munro 15.4
  
  10 June 2016 at 1:40 am
  
  It’s a funny thing, but the voting, not the polling, decides who has won and who has lost. It ain’t over – but Hillary is clearly so tainted she may represent the Republican’s only hope.
Byd0nz 16

9 June 2016 at 9:46 am

Whoever whatever,Capitalism sucks the life out of the working class, be brave help smash it, read Marx
NoThanks 17

9 June 2016 at 9:58 am

Sanders is like any socialist in the world: he can’t quite figure out why he can’t win, but he still demands others’ to pay for his folly.

Let’s be frank, if you smoke, eat junk food, and take drugs, the state should never cover your health care, you are literally a junk bond, or bond when the interest rate is high, or….. whatever, in short a waste of money not worthy of any investment. Therefore UNIVERSAL health care is not ok, it’s punishing those people who look after themselves to pay for those who are undeserving.

The deserving ones should still be looked after of course, e.g. children with disabilities etc., but a small segment of society should be let go.
- dukeofurl 17.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:11 am
  
  The worlds most prosperous societies are all the mixed private- public system for a reason.
  Your type of countries are normally dirt poor, Cambodia etc.
  Even your friends in ACT only get less votes than Mana-Internet last time , what does that tell you? T
- Colonial Viper 17.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:45 am
  
  NoThanks?
  
  You are against universal healthcare and for the nightmare system of the USA?
  
  You really have a screw loose.
  
  The only winners in that system are private insurance companies, whose business model is denial of healthcare to those who need it.
  
  I mean, what is it with your anti-human sentiments? Are you a sociopath?
  
  Therefore UNIVERSAL health care is not ok, it’s punishing those people who look after themselves to pay for those who are undeserving.
  
  What are you, 16 years old? You don’t think the healthiest marathon runners don’t get heart attacks and don’t get knocked over by cars?
  
  You really need to enter the real world mate and exit your fantasy bullshit neolib one.
  - DoublePlusGood 17.2.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 11:53 am
    
    Exactly! And unfortunately we are moving closer toward private companies controlling our health system here.
Lanthanide 18

9 June 2016 at 10:36 am

Bernie Sanders is a traitor to the democratic party.
- Colonial Viper 18.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:48 am
  
  There was a time when men called Washington, Jefferson and Adams were called traitors as well.
  
  Bernie should wear your condemnation as a mark of pride.
- adam 18.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 10:58 am
  
  The party that brought you Jim Crow – that Democratic party?
  
  Or the party that put a million black men in Prison?
  
  Or how about the one that suspended the Constitution?
  
  Just wondering what democratic party Lanthanide?
  
  The one that buckled under the Florida fraud, then blamed Ralph Nader?
  
  Or the one that rigged elections as not to piss off Wall Street?
  
  What democratic party are you talking about Lanthanide?
  - Colonial Viper 18.2.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 12:13 pm
    
    I just watched Jim Hansen explain on You Tube how behind the scenes the Obama White House has treated climate change with the exact same disdain as the Bush White House.
    
    In terms of destroying whole countries, or trying to, Obama’s White House is on a par with GW. And Hilary was behind much of that.
  - Lanthanide 18.2.2
    
    9 June 2016 at 12:27 pm
    
    You’re right, the Democratic party has such a sordid and horrid history, it’s amazing that Sanders would even want to sully himself by running as that party’s nominee.
    
    It’s almost like Sanders is being completely craven and a carpet-bagger for a party he doesn’t actually represent. Perhaps he should have stood as an independent, or for the Socialist Party or something else like that. Then he wouldn’t be a traitor to the Democrats, or a carpet bagger besides.
    - Olwyn 18.2.2.1
      
      9 June 2016 at 12:31 pm
      
      It is also the party that brought the New Deal, albeit a long time ago now. If you take that as the benchmark, then the usurpers are those responsible for the wrongs Adam has listed, not Bernie.
      - Colonial Viper 18.2.2.1.1
        
        9 June 2016 at 3:08 pm
        
        We had a Labour Party which revolutionised the NZ social economy too, a long time ago. Wish that Labour Party was still around.
- Ad 18.3
  
  9 June 2016 at 11:00 am
  
  Bernie Sanders has come from nothing to pretty darn close.
  As an activist and reformer Bernie Sanders is a hero.
Observer Toke 19

9 June 2016 at 11:16 am

.
. “Bernie should wear your condemnation as a mark of pride.”

. You have said a noble thing Colonial Viper. Well done

Interesting that so many Tory wealthy trolls on here have been rubbishing Bernie Sanders’.

Bernie has achieved so much. A good man. The wealthy who lack compassion will one day be put on the spit. Like greasy Pigs.
Adrian 20

9 June 2016 at 1:54 pm

Politics isn’t meant to be just about winning. It’s about life long commitment to principals and beliefs, be they Right or Left or Centrist.
Bernie stands for something completely different than Hilary, so why on earth would he stand behind Hillary?
This whole ‘lesser of two evils’ argument simply doesn’t mean anything any more..it’s the reason America is in the appalling state it is in.
And us. The difference here being our young folk, the equivalent of “Bernie supporters’ have left en-mass, leaving the vote to Baby-boomers who are all about a quiet, guilt free existence, with tax free capital gains as the cherry on top.
- Ad 20.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 2:21 pm
  
  If that were the case he should never have been a candidate.
  
  He and his policy platform contested by the rules, and lost.
  - Colonial Viper 20.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 3:03 pm
    
    Contested by the rules? And if said rules were designed to be completely undemocratic what then? Still fine as long as its “by the rules”?
joe90 21

9 June 2016 at 5:06 pm

He isn’t talking about Bernie.

ABC News Verified account
‏@ABC

Bernie Sanders’ sole endorser in Senate, Sen. Jeff Merkley, says ‘we have our nominee.’ http://abcn.ws/1swri3I

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/740765036495392768
Paul 22

9 June 2016 at 5:42 pm

Bernie should go to the convention.
joe90 23

9 June 2016 at 5:50 pm

Politico on Clinton’s appeal to minority and black voters.

But it’s also a fault line. Sanders coming from seemingly nowhere to seriously challenge Clinton while drawing historically large and enthusiastic crowds has soaked up much of the attention in the Democratic race, making it feel as though he’s hit a chord that resonates throughout the party. But his brand of idealism has been rejected by the majority of minority voters—Clinton won every contest with at least a 10 percent black population, except Michigan, and each state where Latinos make up at least 10 percent of eligible voters, except Colorado, according to Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight.com. On top of that, they have been mocked by some Sanders supporters for supposedly “voting against their self-interest” because they refuse to believe a political revolution is at hand. That has been particularly galling to black voters who had to endure claims from conservatives in 2008 that they were voting for Barack Obama only because of race—even though they had spent their entire adult lives voting mostly for white presidential candidates. Now their preference for Clinton’s brand of pragmatism, something they’ve seen result in real progress time and again, is being questioned as well, this time by fellow Democrats.

[…]

Many Sanders supporters believed his push to regulate Wall Street and solve economic inequality would resonate with minority voters. It didn’t because minority voters know that liberal policies alone won’t reverse decades of racial inequalities. They have been loyal members of liberal unions where white Democrats received plush jobs, even if they were no more qualified than their black colleagues. They’ve seen the same thing in liberal Hollywood and the supposedly liberal world of the media, whose top ranks remain mostly white.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democrats-race-racial-divide-213948#ixzz4B3QS0AmB
Graeme Stanley 24

9 June 2016 at 6:19 pm

The Democratic Party have not been shown to operate a Level Playing field with regard to The Two candidates and there appear lots of primary voter irregularities. And Hilary Clinton cannot claim complete victory until all primaries are held and superdelegates formally vote on July 25th The media and corporate world appear behind Hilary hence the blackout they maintained against Bernie but what amazes me is how Bernie Sanders has motivated social media and thousands of young people who have not voted as well as the future of a nation. Bernie deserves to go all the way and to exact changes in The Democratic Party changes to policy too He also needs to be rewarded for his campaign.The Democratic Party need him in the Tent.Many have advocated him going Independent.A Hard Call. Go Bernie The Peoples President He has inspired me an oldie Kiwi.
Liberal Realist 25

9 June 2016 at 7:21 pm

A Clinton presidency will just be more and more and more of the same. The world needs better.

OP, whilst I agree that the work needs better HRC will not be more of the same. The world (and Europe & South East Asia specifically) are about to become very dangerous places to be if HRC is elected POTUS.

HRC has volumes of blood on her hands, she’s no liberal by any measure. She’s a war hawk that’s determined to confront Russia in Eastern Europe on her borders, invade Syria under the pretense of humanitarian intervention and arm the neo-nazi puppets in Kiev with modern weaponry. All of which could lead to nuclear conflagration. Think of Central Europe as a smoldering sheet of trinitite.

Beyond the risk of HRCs dangerous hawkishness there’s also the serious AIPAC / BIBI / Israeli asskissing, promising to take the US / Israeli relationship to the “next level”. I’m assuming that means more violence, death, torture and genocide on part of the Israelis with US made and funded weaponry.

IMO Hillary Clinton is the single biggest risk to life on this planet, should she be elected.

To quote John Pilger:

“The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton. She is no maverick. She embodies the resilience and violence of a system…”

Source: (Well worth the read)
http://johnpilger.com/articles/trump-and-clinton-censoring-the-unpalatable

Trinitite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitite
- Colonial Viper 25.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 7:44 pm
  
  Thanks for the Pilger link.
  
  He understands very well what “western values” are in practice as opposed to in PR, and can enunciate the fact like few others.
  - Liberal Realist 25.1.1
    
    9 June 2016 at 7:58 pm
    
    You’re welcome CV,
    
    If you haven’t seen it, do watch ‘the war you don’t see’ by Pilger, very rare journalism for this day in age.
    
    http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-you-dont-see
- the pigman 25.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 9:39 pm
  
  Two videos that, watched together, tell you everything you need to know about Hillary (Killary) Clinton:
  
  Killary crows delightedly and quips about Gaddafi’s death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y
  
  Gaddafi’s death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdVc7aoay7o (warning, graphic)
  
  The woman is a nutty butcher that will send the Arab world and likely SE Asia, too, deeper into war and chaos.
Halfcrown 26

9 June 2016 at 7:37 pm

I agree 200% there Pal.
- Halfcrown 26.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 8:43 pm
  
  I have just noticed that my reply is out of sequence. It should be an answer to Liberal Realist@#25 7.21 pm
joe90 27

9 June 2016 at 11:01 pm

meh

.
Dana Houle
‏@DanaHoule

WTF? Sanders wants the new DNC chair to be Tulsi Gabbard, who thinks Obama is soft on terrorism & doesn’t say Islamic radicalism enough?

https://twitter.com/DanaHoule/status/740575397113303040
- Colonial Viper 27.1
  
  9 June 2016 at 11:24 pm
  
  This is Tulsi Gabbard
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epK2HqO4phg
- Colonial Viper 27.2
  
  9 June 2016 at 11:26 pm
  
  Also this
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-srPR65Gh4k
- joe90 27.3
  
  9 June 2016 at 11:51 pm
  
  Have squiz at the Christians United for Israel website and check out the featured speakers – Gabbard in all her neocon glory is one of them.
  
  http://www.cufi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=2015Summit_Speakers
  - Colonial Viper 27.3.1
    
    10 June 2016 at 12:52 am
    
    Sanders, Gabbard and Grayson are three of the finest politicians in the US. And yes they all have to kowtow to the Israel lobby. That doesnt make them neocons. Gabbard in particular is dead set against the neocon strategy of military intervention and regime change.
- joe90 27.4
  
  9 June 2016 at 11:59 pm
  
  This is Tulsi Gabbard lining up with some of the more hard-core Israel lobby.
  
  On July 29, the U.S. House of Representatives, with more than 100 co-sponsors from both parties, passed a resolution by unanimous consent insisting that the Israeli attacks were exclusively “focused on terrorist targets” and that Israel “goes to extraordinary lengths to target only terrorist actors.” Co-sponsors included such prominent Democrats as Alan Grayson (FL), Jared Polis (CO), Eric Swalwell (CA), Richard Neal (MA), Joseph Kennedy (MA), Tulsi Gabbard (HI), Jan Schakowsky (IL), Brad Sherman (CA), Elliot Engel (NY), and Debbie Wasserman-Schulz (FL). Two days later, Senate majority leader Harry Reid introduced a resolution, also pushed through by unanimous consent, claiming that “the Government of Israel has taken significant steps to protect civilians in Gaza” and that “Israel’s attacks have focused on terrorist targets.”
  
  http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/22/gaza-and-the-bi-partisan-war-on-human-rights/
- joe90 27.5
  
  10 June 2016 at 12:03 am
  
  This is Tulsi Gabbard – Bill Maher’s new Islamophobia recruit.
  
  https://youtu.be/1dWx0Vt9FAA?t=5m2s
joe90 28

10 June 2016 at 12:18 am

This is Tulsi Gabbard paling around with an activist from the Islamophobic BJP and adorned with the party’s logo.

This isn’t simply a case of Indian Americans backing a Hindu congresswoman in order to bolster the representation of their community; after all, Gabbard was the first Hindu elected to Congress, an important civil rights milestone. (Gabbard, who is American Samoan, converted to Hinduism as a teenager.)

The more important point is that her backers are all ideological backers of the BJP, which represents the right-wing, Hindu nationalist wing of Indian politics.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/curious-islamophobic-politics-dem-congressmember-tulsi-gabbard

http://parstoday.com/en/news/world-i5038-bjp_extremists_trying_to_strip_indian_muslims_of_their_vote
Jenny 29

10 June 2016 at 4:33 am

It is good to see the political establishment calling ‘Uncle’. Enough already, you have made your point. Now “Stand down”.

Bernie Sanders has made it one of his main campaign planks to get rid of corporate money out of politics, (at least in the Democratic Party). Sanders particularly wants to abolish the role of the SuperPacs which peddle corporate influence and control of politicians.

This is the rule change that he wants from the democratic convention.

He won’t stand down till he gets this concession.

(Who knows, in his private conversation with the president, Sanders may well get Obama, once also an outsider, to back Sanders call to end the role of corporate influence peddling, and the power of money to pervert American democracy).

It is all very well for HRC to say that she agrees that corporate money and influence needs to be got out of politics and she will look into the matter, But that is not enough when she herself is one of the biggest benefactors of this system of corporate money and influence peddling.

As the saying goes in the US, “Turkeys never vote for thanksgiving”.

This may be the only chance in a generation that the Left has a chance of evening the playing field, toward ordinary Americans.

And strengthen their democracy.

There will be a contested convention, until the rules are changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-QI_qsakmk
Matthew Whitehead 30

10 June 2016 at 3:54 pm

Sanders should cut a deal in which he agrees to suspend his campaign with the option of re-entering the race and joins Clinton in criticising Donald Trump in return for some policy concessions. (normally the deals offered to candidates to stand down are to pay off their campaign debts and offer them cushy jobs, but Sanders isn’t campaigning for himself, he cares about the movement and his policies) At the moment the only path to the nomination for him is if Hillary Clinton is hit with an inditement over her private email server before the convention and the Democratic Party decides she’s no longer a viable candidate, which is pretty slim hopes, so it’s not actually a huge concession to suspend or terminate his campaign- but it is very savvy of him not to end it early without being offered anything, because technically yes, Hillary hasn’t actually clinched the nomination until the convention, regardless of what the superdelegates say.
Jenny 31

11 June 2016 at 6:33 am

Who will be to blame if Trump beats Clinton.

In this awful eventuality, the front runner who the polls said could have easily beaten Trump, who voluntarily stood down.

‘Not my fault, I did my best’, Says Clinton

‘Not our fault’, Say the Super Delegates, we were never given a choice we only had one candidate to choose.
Jenny 32

12 June 2016 at 9:02 am

“Bernie or Bust?”

“No, Justice or Bust.”

While the Washington Post and others say that Hillary’s wins yesterday mean that Bernie has less leverage to demand concessions, I do not believe that will be true unless we allow that to be true. If we give up or give in, this political revolution has really been a cult of personality that will fade even as Bernie sits in the White House chatting with President Obama. We have to intensify our resolve, not wallow in disappointment.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/09/bernie-or-bust-no-its-justice-or-bust

“We are trying to change a system that resists change”, Hone Harawira, August, 2014

Last week Ms Turei claimed that KidsCan had said that up to 90 per cent of kids in schools went to school without lunch every day – a statement she later corrected and apologised for.

Today she visited Windley School in Porirua where 50 children were fed with peanut butter and jam sandwiches and criticized Mr Key for not agreeing to go with her.

She tabled a KidsCan document showing that KidsCan fed about 15,000 across 448 schools, an average of 33 pupils in each of the participating schools.

A bill in her name, originally known as Hone Harawira’s “feed the kids” bill was defeated in Parliament this evening, by 59 votes to 61 at its first reading.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11419393

Meanwhile another food in schools bill in the name of Labour MP David Shearer was defeated tonight at its first reading as well.

The bill allowed for free food in all primary and intermediate decile one to three schools that wanted.

However During his research on the bill, Mr Shearer came across several schools including Yendarra School in Otara, and Owairaka District School, which took a community approach to food in schools and changed his thinking.

“I have become convinced that free food solves nothing,” he has said.

“I now believe that each school community should be resourced to find and deliver its own long-term food solutions.”

He still wanted the bill sent to a select committee so it could be reworked.

The vote on his bill was 60 in favour and 60 against, meaning it could not progress.

“We’ll feed hungry kids in schools…..” Andrew Little, June, 2016

http://thestandard.org.nz/livestream-change-the-government/

“Justice or bust”

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In our increasingly digital world, home computers have become essential tools for work, communication, entertainment, and more. However, this increased reliance on technology also exposes us to various cyber threats. Understanding these threats and taking proactive steps to protect your home computer is crucial for safeguarding your personal information, finances, ...
Gareth’s WorldBy admin
1 day ago

Server-Based Computing Powering the Modern Digital Landscape
In the ever-evolving world of technology, server-based computing has emerged as a cornerstone of modern digital infrastructure. This article delves into the concept of server-based computing, exploring its various forms, benefits, challenges, and its impact on the way we work and interact with technology. Understanding Server-Based Computing: At its core, ...
Gareth’s WorldBy admin
1 day ago

Vroom vroom go the big red trucks
The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
1 day ago

Jones finds $410,000 to help the government muscle in on a spat project
Buzz from the Beehive Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones relishes spatting and eagerly takes issue with environmentalists who criticise his enthusiasm for resource development. He relishes helping the fishing industry too. And so today, while the media are making much of the latest culling in the public service to ...
Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
1 day ago

Again, hate crimes are not necessarily terrorism.
Having written, taught and worked for the US government on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me the most when the subject is discussed in public. The first is the Johnny-come-lately academics-turned-media commentators who … Continue reading → ...
KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
1 day ago

Despair – construction consenting edition
Eric Crampton writes – Kainga Ora is the government’s house building agency. It’s been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting authority, Consentium. It’s a neat idea. Rather than have to deal with building consents across each different territorial authority, Kainga Ora ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
1 day ago

Coalition promises – will the Govt keep the commitment to keep Kiwis equal before the law?
Muriel Newman writes – The Coalition Government says it is moving with speed to deliver campaign promises and reverse the damage done by Labour. One of their key commitments is to “defend the principle that New Zealanders are equal before the law.” To achieve this, they have pledged they “will not advance ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
1 day ago

An impermanent public service is a guarantee of very little else but failure
Chris Trotter writes – The absence of anything resembling a fightback from the public servants currently losing their jobs is interesting. State-sector workers’ collective fatalism in the face of Coalition cutbacks indicates a surprisingly broad acceptance of impermanence in the workplace. Fifty years ago, lay-offs in the thousands ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
2 days ago

What happens after the war – Mariupol
Mariupol, on the Azov Sea coast, was one of the first cities to suffer almost complete destruction after the start of the Ukraine War started in late February 2022. We remember the scenes of absolute destruction of the houses and city structures. The deaths of innocent civilians – many of ...
Open ParachuteBy Ken
2 days ago

Babies and benefits – no good news
Lindsay Mitchell writes – Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a Listener column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregivers benefit by Christmas. This pattern has persisted from at least 1993. For Maori the number jumps to over one in three. ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
2 days ago

Should the RBNZ be looking through climate inflation?
Climate change is expected to generate more and more extreme events, delivering a sort of structural shock to inflation that central banks will have to react to as if they were short-term cyclical issues. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
2 days ago

Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links
The top six news links I’ve seen elsewhere in the last 24 hours, as of 9:16 am on Thursday, April 18 are:Housing: Tauranga residents living in boats, vans RNZ Checkpoint Louise TernouthHousing: Waikato councillor says wastewater plant issues could hold up Sleepyhead building a massive company town Waikato Times Stephen ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
2 days ago

Gordon Campbell on the public sector carnage, and misogyny as terrorism
It’s a simple deal. We pay taxes in order to finance the social services we want and need. The carnage now occurring across the public sector though, is breaking that contract. Over 3,000 jobs have been lost so far. Many are in crucial areas like Education where the impact of ...
Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
2 days ago

Meeting the Master Baiters
Hi,A friend had their 40th over the weekend and decided to theme it after Curb Your Enthusiasm fashion icon Susie Greene. Captured in my tiny kitchen before I left the house, I ending up evoking a mix of old lesbian and Hillary Clinton — both unintentional.Me vs Hillary ClintonIf you’re ...
David FarrierBy David Farrier
2 days ago

How extreme was the Earth's temperature in 2023
This is a re-post from Andrew Dessler at the Climate Brink blog In 2023, the Earth reached temperature levels unprecedented in modern times. Given that, it’s reasonable to ask: What’s going on? There’s been lots of discussions by scientists about whether this is just the normal progression of global warming or if something ...
Skeptical Science
2 days ago

Backbone, revisited
The schools are on holiday and the sun is shining in the seaside village and all day long I have been seeing bunches of bikes; Mums, Dads, teens and toddlers chattering, laughing, happy, having a bloody great time together. Cheers, AT, for the bits of lane you’ve added lately around the ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
2 days ago

Ministers are not above the law
Today in our National-led authoritarian nightmare: Shane Jones thinks Ministers should be above the law: New Zealand First MP Shane Jones is accusing the Waitangi Tribunal of over-stepping its mandate by subpoenaing a minister for its urgent hearing on the Oranga Tamariki claim. The tribunal is looking into the ...
No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
2 days ago

What’s the outfit you can hear going down the gurgler? Probably it’s David Parker’s Oceans Sec...
Buzz from the Beehive Point of Order first heard of the Oceans Secretariat in June 2021, when David Parker (remember him?) announced a multi-agency approach to protecting New Zealand’s marine ecosystems and fisheries. Parker (holding the Environment, and Oceans and Fisheries portfolios) broke the news at the annual Forest & ...
Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
2 days ago

Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
Bryce Edwards writes – Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
2 days ago

Matt Doocey doubles down on trans “healthcare”
Citizen Science writes – Last week saw two significant developments in the debate over the treatment of trans-identifying children and young people – the release in Britain of the final report of Dr Hilary Cass’s review into gender healthcare, and here in New Zealand, the news that the ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
2 days ago

A TikTok Prime Minister.
One night while sleeping in my bed I had a beautiful dreamThat all the people of the world got together on the same wavelengthAnd began helping one anotherNow in this dream, universal love was the theme of the dayPeace and understanding and it happened this wayAfter such an eventful day ...
Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
3 days ago

Texas Lessons
This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election. ...
Greater AucklandBy Guest Post
3 days ago

Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links at 6:06 am
The top six news links I’ve seen elsewhere in the last 24 hours as of 6:06 am on Wednesday, April 17 are:Must read: Secrecy shrouds which projects might be fast-tracked RNZ Farah HancockScoop: Revealed: Luxon has seven staffers working on social media content - partly paid for by taxpayer Newshub ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
3 days ago

Fighting poverty on the holiday highway
Turning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring at least an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The ...
PolitikBy Richard Harman
3 days ago

Bernard's six-stack of substacks at 6:26 pm
Tonight’s six-stack includes: launching his substack with a bunch of his previous documentaries, including this 1992 interview with Dame Whina Cooper. and here crew give climate activists plenty to do, including this call to submit against the Fast Track Approvals bill. writes brilliantly here on his substack ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
3 days ago

At a glance – Is the science settled?
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
Skeptical Science
3 days ago

Apposite Quotations.
How Long Is Long Enough? Gaza under Israeli bombardment, July 2014. This posting is exclusive to Bowalley Road. ...
Bowalley Road
3 days ago

What’s a life worth now?
You're in the mall when you hear it: some kind of popping sound in the distance, kids with fireworks, maybe. But then a moment of eerie stillness is followed by more of the fireworks sound and there’s also screaming and shrieking and now here come people running for their lives.Does ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
3 days ago

Howling at the Moon
Karl du Fresne writes – There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected elsewhere – mainly to the hapless Minister of Communications, Melissa Lee, and the big social media platforms that are accused of hoovering ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
3 days ago

Newshub is Dead.
I don’t normally send out two newsletters in a day but I figured I’d say something about… the news. If two newsletters is a bit much then maybe just skip one, I don’t want to overload people. Alternatively if you’d be interested in sometimes receiving multiple, smaller updates from me, ...
Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
3 days ago

Seymour is chuffed about cutting early-learning red tape – but we hear, too, that Jones has loose...
Buzz from the Beehive David Seymour and Winston Peters today signalled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today. Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be ...
Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
3 days ago

Bryce Edwards: Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. Our political system is suffering from the ...
Democracy ProjectBy bryce.edwards
3 days ago

Was Hawkesby entirely wrong?
David Farrar writes – The Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled: Comments by radio host Kate Hawkesby suggesting Māori and Pacific patients were being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity were misleading and discriminatory, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. It is a fact such patients are prioritised. ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
4 days ago

PRC shadow looms as the Solomons head for election
PRC and its proxies in Solomons have been preparing for these elections for a long time. A lot of money, effort and intelligence have gone into ensuring an outcome that won’t compromise Beijing’s plans. Cleo Paskall writes – On April 17th the Solomon Islands, a country of ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
4 days ago

Climate Change: Criminal ecocide
We are in the middle of a climate crisis. Last year was (again) the hottest year on record. NOAA has just announced another global coral bleaching event. Floods are threatening UK food security. So naturally, Shane Jones wants to make it easier to mine coal: Resources Minister Shane Jones ...
No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
4 days ago

Is saving one minute of a politician's time worth nearly $1 billion?
Is speeding up the trip to and from Wellington airport by 12 minutes worth spending up more than $10 billion? Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me in the last day to 8:26 am today are:The Lead: Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
4 days ago

Long Tunnel or Long Con?
Yesterday it was revealed that Transport Minister had asked Waka Kotahi to look at the options for a long tunnel through Wellington. State Highway 1 (SH1) through Wellington City is heavily congested at peak times and while planning continues on the duplicate Mt Victoria Tunnel and Basin Reserve project, the ...
Greater AucklandBy Matt L
4 days ago

Smoke And Mirrors.
You're a fraud, and you know itBut it's too good to throw it all awayAnyone would do the sameYou've got 'em goingAnd you're careful not to show itSometimes you even fool yourself a bitIt's like magicBut it's always been a smoke and mirrors gameAnyone would do the sameForty six billion ...
Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
4 days ago

What is Mexico doing about climate change?
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The June general election in Mexico could mark a turning point in ensuring that the country’s climate policies better reflect the desire of its citizens to address the climate crisis, with both leading presidential candidates expressing support for renewable energy. Mexico is the ...
Skeptical Science
4 days ago

State of humanity, 2024
2024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?When I say 2024 I really mean the state of humanity in 2024.Saturday night, we watched Civil War because that is one terrifying cliff we've ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
4 days ago

Govt’s Wellington tunnel vision aims to ease the way to the airport (but zealous promoters of cycl...
Buzz from the Beehive A pet project and governmental tunnel vision jump out from the latest batch of ministerial announcements. The government is keen to assure us of its concern for the wellbeing of our pets. It will be introducing pet bonds in a change to the Residential Tenancies Act ...
Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
4 days ago

The case for cultural connectedness
A recent report generated from a Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) survey of 1,224 rangatahi Māori aged 11-12 found: Cultural connectedness was associated with fewer depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms and better quality of life. That sounds cut and dry. But further into the report the following appears: Cultural connectedness is ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
5 days ago

Useful context on public sector job cuts
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: From the gory details of job-cuts news, you’d think the public service was being eviscerated. While the media’s view of the cuts is incomplete, it’s also true that departments have been leaking the particulars faster than a Wellington ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
5 days ago

Gordon Campbell On When Racism Comes Disguised As Anti-racism
Remember the good old days, back when New Zealand had a PM who could think and speak calmly and intelligently in whole sentences without blustering? Even while Iran’s drones and missiles were still being launched, Helen Clark was live on TVNZ expertly summing up the latest crisis in the Middle ...
Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
5 days ago

Govt ignored economic analysis of smokefree reversal
Costello did not pass on analysis of the benefits of the smokefree reforms to Cabinet, emphasising instead the extra tax revenues of repealing them. Photo: Hagen Hopkins, Getty Images TL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me at 7:26 am today are:The Lead: Casey Costello never passed on ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
5 days ago

True Blue.
True loveYou're the one I'm dreaming ofYour heart fits me like a gloveAnd I'm gonna be true blueBaby, I love youI’ve written about the job cuts in our news media last week. The impact on individuals, and the loss to Aotearoa of voices covering our news from different angles.That by ...
Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
5 days ago

Who is running New Zealand’s foreign policy?
While commentators, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are noting a subtle shift in New Zealand’s foreign policy, which now places more emphasis on the United States, many have missed a key element of the shift. What National said before the election is not what the government is doing now. ...
PolitikBy Richard Harman
5 days ago

Fast-track submissions period must be extended
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
Greens
8 hours ago

Release: Progress on climate will be undone by Govt
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
Labour Blog
8 hours ago

Release: Dark day for Kiwi kids as a third of Govt cuts affect them
News that 1000 jobs at the Ministry of Education and Oranga Tamariki could go is devastating for future generations of New Zealanders. ...
Labour Blog
2 days ago

Release: Alarm as Government signals further blow to school lunches
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Labour Blog
3 days ago

Release: Quick, submit – stop Govt’s dodgy approvals bill
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Labour Blog
3 days ago

Government throws coal on the climate crisis fire
The Government’s policy announced today to ease consenting for coal mining will have a lasting impact across generations. ...
Greens
4 days ago

Release: Public transport costs to double as National looks at unaffordable roading project instead
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
Labour Blog
4 days ago

Release: Cost of living in Auckland still not a priority
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Labour Blog
5 days ago

Greens look to fast-track submissions on harmful law
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Release: Govt should stop making people’s lives harder and build more homes
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Release: Melissa Lee missing in action on media
The action Melissa Lee promised to protect democracy and the media sector is missing, Media and Communications spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Landlord Government leaves little hope for renters
The Government’s announcement on tenancy rules prove that it does not care about renters. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Opportunity to build a more sustainable economy
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Significant step forward in fixing cruel and unjust past
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Missed opportunity but NZ will surely one day recognise the right to a sustainable environment
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Release: Don’t cut our lunches – clear message sent to Government
Tens of thousands of people are demanding the Government commits to fully funding free and healthy school lunches. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Release: Govt makes U-turn on Suicide Prevention Office
Labour welcomes the Government’s U-turn on the closure of the Suicide Prevention Office, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

CCC issues warning over further climate delay
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Luxon targets are lousy example of leadership
If talk is cheap, Chris Luxon’s “targets” are bankrupt. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Luxon targets lame and lousy example of leadership
If talk is cheap, Chris Luxon’s “targets” are bankrupt. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Release: Commitment to disability communities missing from Govt priorities
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Methane target review is dangerous duplication
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Release: Government must commit to school building project for disabled students
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Release: National must take mental health seriously
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Referendums for Māori wards a racist step backwards
The Government's imposed referendum on Māori wards is a racist step backwards for Māori representation, and disregards Te Tiriti o Waitangi. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Release: Job losses at Health not worth it for tax cuts
New Zealand will feel the harm of the National Government’s reckless cuts to jobs at the health ministry for generations, says Ayesha Verrall. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Press release: No Māori initiatives in Government’s nothing plan
Māori are yet to see anything from this Government except cuts, reversals and taking our people backwards, Māori Development spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Thirty six point PR spin
The Government’s ‘36 point’ plan for the next three months is as pointless as it is hollow. ...
Greens
3 weeks ago

Thirty six point PR spin
The Government’s ‘36 point’ plan for the next three months is as pointless as it is hollow. ...
Greens
3 weeks ago

Thirty six point PR spin
The Government’s ‘36 point’ plan for the next three months is as pointless as it is hollow. ...
Greens
3 weeks ago

Release: Social housing off Government’s to-do list
The Coalition Government’s refusal to commit to ongoing funding for social housing is seeing the sector pull back on developments and families watch their dreams of securing a home fade away, says Labour Housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty. ...
Labour Blog
3 weeks ago

Release: Less money in most people’s pockets this April
Changes to minimum wage and benefit indexation means many New Zealanders will get less this year, as the Government gives a big tax break to landlords instead. ...
Labour Blog
3 weeks ago

$41m to support clean energy in South East Asia
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
8 hours ago

Minister releases Fast-track stakeholder list
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
10 hours ago

Judicial appointments announced
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
11 hours ago

Education Minister heads to major teaching summit in Singapore
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
12 hours ago

Value of stopbank project proven during cyclone
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
12 hours ago

Anzac commemorations, Türkiye relationship focus of visit
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
12 hours ago

Minister to Europe for OECD meeting, Anzac Day
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
14 hours ago

Comprehensive Partnership the goal for NZ and the Philippines
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 day ago

Government commits $20m to Westport flood protection
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 day ago

Taupō takes pole position
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 day ago

Cost of living support for low-income homeowners
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 day ago

Government backing mussel spat project
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 day ago

Government focused on getting people into work
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Clean energy key driver to reducing emissions
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Earthquake-prone buildings review brought forward
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Thailand and NZ to agree to Strategic Partnership
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Government consults on extending coastal permits for ports
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Inflation coming down, but more work to do
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

School attendance restored as a priority in health advice
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
3 days ago

Unnecessary bureaucracy cut in oceans sector
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
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3 days ago

Patterson promoting NZ’s wool sector at International Congress
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
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4 days ago

Removing red tape to help early learners thrive
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
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4 days ago

RMA changes to cut coal mining consent red tape
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
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4 days ago

McClay reaffirms strong NZ-China trade relationship
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
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4 days ago

Prime Minister Luxon acknowledges legacy of Singapore Prime Minister Lee
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
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4 days ago

PMs Luxon and Lee deepen Singapore-NZ ties
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
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4 days ago

Antarctica New Zealand Board appointments
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has made further appointments to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand as part of a continued effort to ensure the Scott Base Redevelopment project is delivered in a cost-effective and efficient manner. The Minister has appointed Neville Harris as a new member of the Board. Mr ...
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4 days ago

Finance Minister travels to Washington DC
Finance Minister Nicola Willis will travel to the United States on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Five Finance Ministers group, with counterparts from Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. “I am looking forward to meeting with our Five Finance partners on how we can work ...
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4 days ago

Pet bonds a win/win for renters and landlords
The coalition Government has today announced purrfect and pawsitive changes to the Residential Tenancies Act to give tenants with pets greater choice when looking for a rental property, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Pets are important members of many Kiwi families. It’s estimated that around 64 per cent of New ...
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4 days ago

Long Tunnel for SH1 Wellington being considered
State Highway 1 (SH1) through Wellington City is heavily congested at peak times and while planning continues on the duplicate Mt Victoria Tunnel and Basin Reserve project, the Government has also asked NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to consider and provide advice on a Long Tunnel option, Transport Minister Simeon Brown ...
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5 days ago

New Zealand condemns Iranian strikes
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have condemned Iran’s shocking and illegal strikes against Israel. “These attacks are a major challenge to peace and stability in a region already under enormous pressure," Mr Luxon says. "We are deeply concerned that miscalculation on any side could ...
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5 days ago

Huge interest in Government’s infrastructure plans
Hundreds of people in little over a week have turned out in Northland to hear Regional Development Minister Shane Jones speak about plans for boosting the regional economy through infrastructure. About 200 people from the infrastructure and associated sectors attended an event headlined by Mr Jones in Whangarei today. Last ...
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1 week ago

Health Minister thanks outgoing Health New Zealand Chair
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti has today thanked outgoing Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Chair Dame Karen Poutasi for her service on the Board. “Dame Karen tendered her resignation as Chair and as a member of the Board today,” says Dr Reti. “I have asked her to ...
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1 week ago

Roads of National Significance planning underway
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has signalled their proposed delivery approach for the Government’s 15 Roads of National Significance (RoNS), with the release of the State Highway Investment Proposal (SHIP) today, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Boosting economic growth and productivity is a key part of the Government’s plan to ...
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1 week ago

Navigating an unstable global environment
New Zealand is renewing its connections with a world facing urgent challenges by pursuing an active, energetic foreign policy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Our country faces the most unstable global environment in decades,” Mr Peters says at the conclusion of two weeks of engagements in Egypt, Europe and the United States. “We cannot afford to sit back in splendid ...
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1 week ago

NZ welcomes Australian Governor-General
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced the Australian Governor-General, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and his wife Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, will make a State visit to New Zealand from Tuesday 16 April to Thursday 18 April. The visit reciprocates the State visit of former Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy ...
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1 week ago

Pseudoephedrine back on shelves for Winter
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced that Medsafe has approved 11 cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. “This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government recognised ...
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1 week ago

NZ and the US: an ever closer partnership
New Zealand and the United States have recommitted to their strategic partnership in Washington DC today, pledging to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The strategic environment that New Zealand and the United States face is considerably more ...
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1 week ago

Joint US and NZ declaration
April 11, 2024 Joint Declaration by United States Secretary of State the Honorable Antony J. Blinken and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs the Right Honourable Winston Peters We met today in Washington, D.C. to recommit to the historic partnership between our two countries and the principles that underpin it—rule ...
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1 week ago

NZ and US to undertake further practical Pacific cooperation
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced further New Zealand cooperation with the United States in the Pacific Islands region through $16.4 million in funding for initiatives in digital connectivity and oceans and fisheries research. “New Zealand can achieve more in the Pacific if we work together more urgently and ...
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1 week ago

Rousing farewell for Kiwi doctors flying out to Gaza aid flotilla
Kia Ora Gaza A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from a big crowd of supporters before flying to Turkey to join the international Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. The doctors, who left Auckland yesterday, hope to ...
Evening ReportBy Asia Pacific Report
2 hours ago

Communities Against The Fast-track Heartened By ‘Overwhelming’ Public Response; Disgusted By ‘...
With submissions closing today, Macassey-Pickard says groups around the country have been supporting a huge range of people to make their submissions. ...
Scoop politics
4 hours ago

Renters Rights To Drastically Reduce Under Landlord Government
The Government’s announced changes around tenancy rules set renters’ rights back by nearly a decade. ...
Scoop politics
4 hours ago

NZPI Submission on Fast Track Approvals Bill
Our response to the new legislation is informed by targeted conversations with practitioners working in the system and through an implementation lens. ...
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4 hours ago

Fast Track Invite List Includes Most Destructive Industries In New Zealand
The new ‘Fast-track Approvals Bill’ would give just three Ministers the power to approve or deny development projects. They would avoid the usual checks and balances that are in place to protect rivers, land, the ocean, and communities. ...
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4 hours ago

Eugene Doyle: Helen Clark on why AUKUS isn’t in New Zealand’s national interest
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Helen Clark, how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister — the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory — gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held ...
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4 hours ago

Government releases list of organisations shoulder-tapped for fast-track consents
The government's released the list of organisations provided with information on how to apply - just hours before public submissions on the bill close. ...
Radio NZ – political
5 hours ago

The Week in Politics: Job cuts surge and Waitangi Tribunal trouble
Analysis - It's been a grim week for public servants, while trouble is also brewing between the government and Waitangi Tribunal. ...
Radio NZ – political
6 hours ago

It never rains but it pours: intense rain and flash floods have increased inland in eastern Australi...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Before climate change really got going, eastern Australia’s flash floods tended to concentrate on our coastal regions, east of the Great Dividing Range. But that’s changing. Now ...
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6 hours ago

Watch: Christopher Luxon speaks to media in Manila
The PM has defended how he's talked up NZ trade on his trip to Southeast Asia, after criticism from his own delegation. ...
Radio NZ – political
7 hours ago

‘It could be the death of the museum’: why research cuts at a South Australian institution have ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University Sia Duff / South Australian Museum In February, the South Australian Museum “re-imagined” itself. In the face of rising costs and inadequate government funds, CEO David Gaimster, who took the reins last June, declared ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
7 hours ago

Government signs off $41m clean energy deal with Asian Development Bank
The government has committed $41 million to clean energy transition at the Asian Development Bank's Energy Transition Mechanism. ...
Radio NZ – political
7 hours ago

Are 2 mid-career AFL retirements a sign Australian athletes are taking brain health more seriously?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Pearce, Professor, School of Allied Heath, Human Services & Sport, La Trobe University, La Trobe University This week, Collingwood AFL player Nathan Murphy announced his retirement, brought on by his concussion history and ongoing issues. The 24-year-old’s seemingly sudden retirement, ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
9 hours ago

Luxon: Waitangi Tribunal comments from coalition parties 'ill considered'
Comments from ACT and NZ First ministers about the Tribunal were "ill considered" and "that message will be underscored" to them, the PM says. ...
Radio NZ – political
9 hours ago

Mental Health Foundation Facing Staff Cuts From Govt Funding Squeeze
The Mental Health Foundation provides support and resources for those facing the loss of their job, so it’s wrong in the very week the Government adds another 1000 jobs to its tally of cuts, that this is happening. ...
Scoop politics
10 hours ago

I wholeheartedly recommend The President: a brilliant revival of a play of decay, terror and revulsi...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely performed play The President. The Austrian is one of the greatest ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
10 hours ago

How the coolest little capital is shrinking
It's not the first time a government has targeted public servants for job cuts, but this time Wellington is really feeling it. ...
Radio NZ – political
10 hours ago

Many prisoners go years without touching a smartphone. It means they struggle to navigate life on th...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Postdoctoral Research Associate at School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock You’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn’t require some form of digital literacy. We need only to look back ten ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
10 hours ago

Ministers accused of Cabinet Manual breach with threats to Waitangi Tribunal
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says threats by ministers Shane Jones and David Seymour to reform or close down the Waitangi Tribunal were “ill-considered”, as legal experts say the ministers may have breached Cabinet Manual conventions. “I think those comments are ill-considered and we expect all ministers to actually exercise good ...
NewsroomBy Marc Daalder
10 hours ago

Good news: midlife health is about more than a waist measurement. Here’s why
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University Pexels/RDNE stock project You’re not in your 20s or 30s anymore and you know regular health checks are important. So you go to your GP. During the appointment they measure your waist. ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
10 hours ago

The Friday Poem: ‘Mitochondrial Problem’ by Evangeline Riddiford Graham
A new poem by Evangeline Riddiford Graham. Mitochondrial Problem I. It was long drive to Kansas for the man and his dog but you have to understand he said She doesn’t fly. Which calls to mind not carsick shitting barking or whining but a dog who chooses not to as ...
The SpinoffBy Evangeline Riddiford Graham
10 hours ago

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending April 18
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1 Hemingway’s Goblet by Dermot Ross (Mary Egan Publishing, $38) Hot off the press, this debut ...
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10 hours ago

Department of Conservation closing Dunedin centre, but no jobs lost
Visitor habits are changing and DOC needs to adapt in a financially sustainable way, its operations director says. ...
Radio NZ – political
10 hours ago

Unions Collaborate With Thousands Of Job Cuts
With New Zealand officially in recession, a swathe of mass sackings is currently sending shockwaves through the entire working class. ...
Scoop politics
10 hours ago

Watch live: Christopher Luxon speaks to media in Manila
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking to reporters in Manila after pledging greater defence cooperation with the Philippines. Watch live. ...
Radio NZ – political
11 hours ago

Government sent please explain letter to Wellington City Council over transport disagreement
The contents were revealed in correspondence from Simeon Brown and Chris Bishop to Wellington's Mayor. ...
Radio NZ – political
11 hours ago

Some families push back against journalists who mine social media for photos – they have every rig...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Wajnryb McDonald, PhD candidate in Criminology, University of Sydney Less than 24 hours after Ashlee Good was murdered in Bondi Junction, her family released a statement requesting the media take down photographs they had reproduced of Ashlee and her family without ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
11 hours ago

Mental Health Foundation staff cuts loom, with funding falling behind rising costs
Chief executive Shaun Robinson said it has not had any government funding cut, but government-funded contracts have not kept pace with rising costs. ...
Radio NZ – political
11 hours ago

The ‘devil comet’ 12P/Pons-Brooks has finally become visible from Australia. What can we expect?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland Pons–Brooks visible from Utah, March 9 2024. James Peirce/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND If you’re a fan of all things space, you’ve doubtless heard about the “devil comet”, which has been captivating keen-eyed observers in the ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
12 hours ago

Rugby stadiums are sold as an economic asset – but NZ needs to ask if they’re really worth it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hamlin, Senior Lecturer in Marketing , University of Otago A multi-billion dollar stadium precinct has been proposed for Auckland, one of three proposals in front of Auckland Council for a new stadium in the city. The council is also considering revamping ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
12 hours ago

Auckland dog attacks: Callouts for attacks on other animals going up
Roaming dogs are responsible for more than a thousand attacks on animals each year, and the number is growing. ...
Radio NZ – political
12 hours ago

What access to puberty blockers means for trans young people and their whānau
The Ministry of Health has delayed the release of its evidence brief on the safety, reversibility and mental health and wellbeing outcomes for puberty blockers. While we wait, Julia de Bres speaks to those with firsthand experience. Best practice gender-affirming healthcare is based on trans people’s self-determination and agency. The ...
The SpinoffBy Julia de Bres
12 hours ago

NZ and Philippines pledge defence cooperation amid rising tensions
The commitment came after a sit-down meeting between Christopher Luxon and President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr overnight. ...
Radio NZ – political
13 hours ago

How superblocks can help reimagine city life
Barcelona’s city streets have gone from traffic-clogged to pedestrian-friendly. How? Superblocks. Ellen Rykers explains. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week I read a great interview with renowned urbanist Janette Sadik-Khan by The Spinoff’s Wellington editor Joel MacManus: “You can reimagine streets, ...
The SpinoffBy Ellen Rykers
14 hours ago

Fire engineering expertise may take a big hit with job cuts at MBIE
The public sector cuts are poised to take out a big chunk of expertise at the country's building regulator. ...
Radio NZ – political
14 hours ago

“Fast-track Law To Kill Kiwi”: Students Say Fight Against Anti-democracy Legislation Is Only Jus...
Student groups ‘Climate Action VUW’, Schools Strike 4 Climate and VUWSA will be on the street in Wellington today, the last day for submissions on the Fast-track Approvals Bill, with a message that the fight against the Government’s ‘War on ...
Scoop politics
15 hours ago

‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sofia Ammassari, Research Fellow, Griffith University Since 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has grown exponentially – and so has the formidable organisational machine of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). These two factors will be key to delivering the BJP a ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
15 hours ago

Online schooling is not just for lockdowns. Could it work for your child?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct) & Senior Manager (BCE), Charles Sturt University During COVID almost all Australian students and their families experienced online learning. But while schools have long since gone back to in-person teaching, online learning has not gone ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
15 hours ago

Hear me out: You can shove your reusable period products
Yes, they’re better for the environment. No, that’s not a good enough reason for me to use them. Once every 26 days or so, my period arrives, and if struck by an act of God, I am caught red-crotched without products. How, after 17 years of this, do I still ...
The SpinoffBy Kristin Kelly
15 hours ago

Rip It Up And Start Over – Fast-Track Approvals Bill Needs To Be Scrapped
“It will cause significant harm to our environment and communities. It is completely at odds with New Zealanders’ relationship with nature and our need for a low-carbon, sustainable economic future." ...
Scoop politics
15 hours ago

Maori Authority Warns Government On Fast Track Legislation
The Chair of the National Maori Authority, Matthew Tukaki, has warned a Parliamentary Select Committee that fast-tracking legislation is a perilous practice that undermines the core tenets of democracy, transparency, and accountability. ...
Scoop politics
16 hours ago

Why the government’s haste in changing the health system could come back to haunt it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Tenbensel, Associate Professor, Health Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Since coming into power, the coalition government has adopted a simple but shrewd see-how-fast-we-can-move political strategy. However, in the health sector this need for speed entails ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
16 hours ago

Many suicides are related to gambling. How can we tackle this problem?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Hronis, Clinical Psychologist, University of Technology Sydney Darya Sannikova/Pexels Whether you’re watching TV, attending a footy game, or eating a meal at your local pub, gambling is hard to escape. Although the rise of gambling is not unique to Australia, ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
16 hours ago

Things that go buzz in the night – our global study found there really are more insects out after ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Wong, Forrest Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day? We set out to answer this question by combing through the scientific ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
16 hours ago

Why don’t Australians talk about their salaries? Pay transparency and fairness go hand-in-hand
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carol T Kulik, Research Professor, University of South Australia IR Stone/Shutterstock In Australia, it’s not the done thing to know – let alone ask – what our colleagues are paid. Yet, it’s easy to see how pay transparency can make pay ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
16 hours ago

‘Character’ And Its Impact On Immigration Status
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is sounding a warning to migrants, that running foul of the law may see them leaving the country prematurely. ...
Scoop politics
16 hours ago

20,000 more on jobseeker benefits than this time last year
The government’s plan to get 50,000 people off jobseeker support by 2030 has had a rocky start, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Beneficiary numbers are up – and so are ...
The SpinoffBy Catherine McGregor
17 hours ago

All of the Raglan Roast cafes in Wellington, ranked from worst to best
Raglan Roast is a staple of Wellington coffee culture. But with five branches across the capital, which one is the best? I am a die-hard Raglan Roast fan. It’s consistently the most affordable cafe in Wellington, and one of the only places you can get a coffee after 3pm. So, ...
The SpinoffBy Zoë Mills
19 hours ago

Auckland uni students threaten rent strike over rising accommodation fees
Residents of University of Auckland halls are being urged to withhold their accommodation fees from May 1, in a bid to force the university to take student concerns over rent hikes seriously. The University of Auckland is facing a strike from students over the cost of on-campus accommodation. The Students ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
19 hours ago

Newsroom daily quiz, Friday 19 April
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19 hours ago

Financial literacy should be on all of us
Opinion: With maths understanding at 42 percent for Year 8 students, there’s no doubt something has to be done. But how? The post Financial literacy should be on all of us appeared first on Newsroom. ...
NewsroomBy Bryce Marsden
19 hours ago

Missy rustles to stardom in Canada
Hineaupounamu ‘Missy’ Nuku has been scaling mountains in Canada for her college basketball team, the Lakeland Rustlers. Alberta is currently home for the 20-year-old point guard, who is in her first year of a scholarship at Lakeland College, where she is studying for a business degree. She has certainly made ...
NewsroomBy Aiden McLaughlin
19 hours ago

Emissions fall again – now NZ needs to up the pace
Official figures confirm New Zealand produced less climate pollution in 2022 than in any other year in the 21st century The post Emissions fall again – now NZ needs to up the pace appeared first on Newsroom. ...
NewsroomBy Marc Daalder
19 hours ago

Warning of death from a million cuts as Oceans Secretariat dissolved
Shane Jones says people voted for change, but opponents say small cuts such as ending a special oceans secretariat are starting to add up The post Warning of death from a million cuts as Oceans Secretariat dissolved appeared first on Newsroom. ...
NewsroomBy Andrew Bevin
19 hours ago

Defence deal to counter Beijing’s aggression in South China Sea
New Zealand and the Philippines have signed a new maritime security agreement and stated their concerns over activity in the South China Sea, as Chinese vessels continue to flout international law. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Philippines President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos committed to signing a Mutual Logistics Supporting Arrangement by ...
NewsroomBy Laura Walters
19 hours ago

Wellington’s ebb and flow of public servants
The thousands of government “back-office” job cuts are causing widespread pain in the capital city. In today’s episode of The Detail, we speak to three journalists and a think tank researcher, looking at the larger picture around the cuts and what effect it will have on Wellington, a city that’s ...
NewsroomBy Tom Kitchin
19 hours ago

New Zealand transport planning has gone off the rails
Opinion: The famed American architect and urban designer Daniel Burnham once said, “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood!” Burnham wouldn’t have been referring to the transport plans in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past five years; projects so big they hadn’t the credibility to ...
NewsroomBy Dr Timothy F Welch
19 hours ago

Daily crossword, Friday 19 April
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19 hours ago

Brakes on transport and logistics sector as demand for freight slows
The transport sector is currently in the slow lane The post Brakes on transport and logistics sector as demand for freight slows appeared first on Newsroom. ...
NewsroomBy Emma Hatton
19 hours ago

Grattan on Friday: Ethnic tensions will complicate the Albanese government’s multicultural policy ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When ASIO boss Mike Burgess delivered his annual threat assessment earlier this year, he stressed the rising danger posed by espionage and foreign interference. “In 2024, threats to our way of life have surpassed ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Group plans work to improve safety of female MPs
New research shows harassment of elected officials - especially women - is on the rise. ...
Radio NZ – political
1 day ago

Ukraine warns of WW3 ahead of long-stalled Congress aid vote
Ukraine's Prime Minister says his country desperately needs the US to approve long-stalled security assistance. ...
Radio NZ – political
1 day ago

PSA astonished Education Minister expects hiring of contractors to review curriculum
Hiring contractors is an appalling solution when people who could do the work are losing their jobs, the PSA says. ...
Radio NZ – political
1 day ago

Crown lawyers attempt to block Waitangi Tribunal summons to Minister for Children
The Tribunal had called on Minister for Children Karen Chhour to provide evidence at an urgent inquiry into the repeal of Section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. ...
Radio NZ – political
1 day ago

Luxon refuses to guarantee public consultation on AUKUS Pillar 2
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says it's "far too premature" to be confirming whether the public would be consulted on joining AUKUS Pillar 2. ...
Radio NZ – political
1 day ago

Visualising the 1800s or designing wedding invitations: 6 ways you can use AI beyond generating text
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University Midjourney image by T.J. Thomson As more than half of Australian office workers report using generative artificial intelligence (AI) for work, we’re starting to see this technology affect every ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Falls, fractures and self-harm: 4 charts on how kids’ injury risk changes over time and differs fo...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Nicole Sharwood, Injury epidemiologist | Expert Witness, UNSW Sydney Sergey Novikov/Shutterstock Injuries are the leading cause of disability and death among Australian children and adolescents. At least a quarter of all emergency department presentations during childhood are injury-related. Injuries can ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Choice and control: will NDIS reforms mean people with disability don’t get to decide who they liv...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Di Winkler, Adjunct Associate Professor, Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University Shutterstock/Ground Picture Many Australians with disability feel on the edge of a precipice right now. Recommendations from the disability royal commission and the NDIS review were released late ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Asbestos in playground mulch: how to avoid a repeat of this circular economy scandal
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Salman Shooshtarian, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University Salman Shooshtarian Asbestos has been found in mulch used for playgrounds, schools, parks and gardens across Sydney and Melbourne. Local communities naturally fear for the health of their ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Could Albanese’s bet on homegrown green industries be the boost our regions deserve?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeline Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University Cloudy Designs/Shutterstock Right now, there’s a global race underway. The goal: bring back manufacturing and energy jobs as the energy transition speeds up. In 2022, America launched its mammoth Inflation Reduction Act and the ...
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