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Dr Liz Gordon: Reform Parliament now!
I noticed there was a significant amount of quite patronising racism in the response to the co-leaders, which is pretty typical. Whenever Māori speak up from their cultural perspective, there is an unfortunate tendency to label them as ignorant, or troublemakers, or not understanding protocol or blah blah blah.
The Empty Gesture of the Climate Emergency declaration
Yes. Finally. Thank the little Baby Jesus that this Labour-Green Government had ended their trite incrementalism and were actually fucking doing something real and meaningful about the existential crisis of our time - Global Warming.
MEDIA WATCH: Smart move by Oranga Tamariki to censor Newsroom story...
By pretending to care about the 4 children they are traumatising, Oranga Tamariki have managed to temporarily censor Newsroom so they can buy time to desperately get their story straight before Pakeha NZ realises what they've done.
GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – DEMOCRATS & DEBT: IS WAR IS...
As surely as day follows night, the election of a Democrat President in USA, and the possibility of war becomes a probably.
Add the massive...
Political Caption Competition
JACINDA - Here are the two empty baubles we've given the Greens that will inoculate any real criticism from them for the next 3...
Government’s shameful record on implementing their own WEAG recommendations – AAAP
Back in early 2019 The Welfare Expert Advisory Group made 42 recommendations to transform the welfare system in it’s report titled ‘Whakamana Tangata’. Child...
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The most important must read political blog of 2020 – A Caucus Of Velvet...
The fact is that New Zealand has a parliament – and a government – drawn overwhelmingly from the Professional-Managerial Class (PMC). The perils of this social monoculture should be obvious. It can only raise a formidable barrier to understanding – and hence addressing – the needs of those living in the bottom half of New Zealand society.
BREAKING: TRUMP HAS TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID!!!
Just when you didn't think 2020 could get more cray, BOOM!
MUST READ: National’s Little Helpers Have A Cunning Plan
LIKE THE EXCLUSIVE BRETHREN in 2005, the Taxpayers’ Union is poised to launch a well-funded, last-minute attack on the Greens.
TRUMP – YOU ARE FIRED!
Thank you America!
NewsHub Leaders Debate: Patrick Gower won and Judith Collins lost!
The winner of the Leaders Debate is Paddy Gower - such insightful, hard, interesting & well researched questions - it was a GREAT genuine...
Jacinda smacks down the Greens: Gryffindor becomes Slytherin to kill Hufflepuff
What Jacinda is banking on is the cowardice of the current Green leadership of Davidson and Shaw to be bullied into accepting a substandard deal.
MUST READ: Jacinda 2.0 is “Licenced to Govern” – But not by, or for,...
WHAT HAS HAPPENED to Jacinda Ardern?
2020 – Post mortem or Prologue?
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A narcissistic, third-rate, Bond-villain code-named "Trump" takes control of the United States; a global pandemic brings human civilisation to a near stand-still; Whakaari/White Island...
Meeting The Overwhelming Quantum Of Need – A modest proposal for ending New...
Socialism doesn’t grow out of thin air: it emerges from an infrastructure in which collectivism – not individualism – has been encoded in institutions’ standard operating procedures.
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5 years and finally justice: NZ Police formally apologise & settle for breaching my civil rights
After 5 years, the NZ Police have apologised and settled my complaint against their breach of my privacy and civil rights during their deeply flawed case against Nicky Hager.
The formal apology is as follows.
Weekly Political Podcast
The Waterstone Election Podcast 2020 - Episode 14
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Pub Politics Live from Chapel Bar - Cannabis Referendum Debate
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The People's Budget
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Resisting State Surveillance & The GCSB, Town Hall Meeting
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Citizen A 7 Nov 2013
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Citizen A - 31 Oct 2013
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Citizen A -10 Oct 2013
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