And they did this for 194 pages…

By John Minto

I’ve had the chance to read the interim report of the tax working group over the weekend and it’s a sorry, sad document.

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Supporting communities against alcohol harm

By Liz Gordon

The alcohol industry is a large and wealthy one. There is plenty of money to be made. But it is important to understand that it is also a harmful one, as recognised by those women 125 years ago. In principle the law now recognises the right of communities to stand as equals and oppose harmful applications. In practice, wealth, power and lawyer’s writs seek constantly to quash the practice of an equal say.

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Carmel Sepuloni must assure NZers that MSD didn’t remove children from State Tenants because of meth hysteria

We know now that Housing NZ were cruel and spiteful to their tenants, and we know that MSD and WINZ has a vicious reputation for treating beneficiaries with contempt so the NZ Government needs to assure the public that no child was taken off a state tenant because of this meth hysteria.

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EXCLUSIVE: Why you must boycott Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton and Tauranga local elections next year

Let me be perfectly clear to my fellow New Zealanders – you must, you must, you must boycott any and all local elections that use online voting. These systems are completely open to being hacked and once accepted means every election after that is a joke.

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John Pilger: ‘Hold the front page. The reporters are missing’

John Pilger …. wrote the foreword for the new book Propaganda Blitz by Media lens co-editors David Edwards and David Cromwell and launched this weekend. Image: Media Lens

By Dr David Robbie

“Media Lens has shattered a silence about corporate journalism. Like Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in Manufacturing Consent, they represent a Fifth Estate that deconstructs and demystifies the media’s power.”

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On the same day NZ Herald profiles China threatening academic, they run Chinese propaganda

Oh the irony. Nothing sums up the current failure of NZ media better than this.

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Why Andrew Little is losing the Prison reform debate

We need to acknowledge that anger and fear have shaped our prison industrial complex and by reframing the issue as a media generated hysteria, Little could bypass National using that same media to try and spread more hysteria.

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If Phil Goff won’t fix Auckland’s housing crisis – could John Tamihere take the Mayoralty off him?

Goff has been great at treating the symptoms of Auckland’s housing crisis, Tamihere however could focus on a cure.

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Simon Bridges & Judith Collins response to the meth hysteria their Party fed should rule them out of Government forever

Simon Bridges & Judith Collins have managed to make Trump’s victim blaming look like valid criticism.

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Positive Money Petition

By Bryan Gould

Many of today’s generation will have forgotten or be unaware of the brave and successful initiative taken by our Prime Minister in the 1930s – the great Michael Joseph Savage. He created new money with which he built thousands of state houses, thereby bringing an end to the Great Depression in New Zealand and providing decent houses for young families (my own included) who needed them.

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Update on my case against NZ Police illegally spying on me

…Our watchdogs have no teeth or bark.

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The coming checkmate of capitalism moment: Understanding how the new Government was birthed & who they should save when the economic meltdown hits

The failure of neoliberalism has been looming for sometime, but the questions we should be asking as the global economy continues to dance spastically on the lip of the volcano is what does this mean politically for New Zealand and what should the new Government look to do as a response.

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Setting The Agenda View All →

And they did this for 194 pages…

By John Minto 18 hours ago

I’ve had the chance to read the interim report of the tax working group over the weekend and it’s a sorry, sad document.

By The Daily Blog 19 hours ago

The alcohol industry is a large and wealthy one. There is plenty of money to be made. But it is important to understand that it is also a harmful one, as recognised by those women 125 years ago. In principle the law now recognises the right of communities to stand as equals and oppose harmful applications. In practice, wealth, power and lawyer’s writs seek constantly to quash the practice of an equal say.

By Leslie Bravery 3 days ago

A member of the Israeli anti-Zionist Breaking the Silence movement, who had served with Israeli Occupation forces in the Palestinian city of Hebron, described in a television documentary interview the Israeli Army policy of photographing Palestinian families inside their homes. Following home invasions, often without warning, in the middle of the night, the families would […]

By John Minto 4 days ago

The “pocket money” offer to state house tenants wrongly evicted from their homes based on bogus meth testing is deeply cynical and insulting.

By Mike Treen 4 days ago

Hundreds of millions of dollars are owed to hundreds of thousands of workers and only the top 100 employers are being asked to fix the problem and pay it back.

By Curwen Ares Rolinson 4 days ago

So now the dust (or, perhaps, some measure of the ‘fog of war’) is starting to clear over Monday’s events in Syria, it’s probably prudent to reflect on what Putin can and should do in response to what has occurred.

By Chris Trotter 4 days ago

New Zealand is by no means exempt from the effects of this unravelling neoliberal hegemony. In this country, also, there is a large colonised population presided over by a distant and hated elite. We, too, have constructed an underclass whose full citizenship and personhood is routinely denied in overcrowded prisons; at the counter of the local WINZ office; and by “unconsciously biased” teachers, medics and cops.

By The Daily Blog 6 days ago

So this suffrage day, celebrate 125 years, mourn those no longer with us as a result of domestic violence, whisper in the ear of men friends who seem to be overly possessive and let’s work towards a violence free future.

When the Government have answered if any children were removed from state tenants over the meth hysteria, could they please tell us if Mike Sabin’s Methcon had anything to do with setting flawed meth standards?

By Martyn Bradbury 7 hours ago

Who exactly is the Meth Crook here Simon?

By Martyn Bradbury 7 hours ago

If I was jaded and deeply cynical, I’d suggest the bloody Australians have dumped as much of their stock in NZ despite knowing there was some threat of sabotage to the product.

By Martyn Bradbury 8 hours ago

It’s just so ugly and Bridges is managing to mutilate it and make it even more ugly.

By Martyn Bradbury 2 days ago

We should be ashamed of our political leaders and their cowardice. The only way we finally break these pricks is by taking the power into our own hands and voting for a legalised cannabis market in the looming cannabis referendum.

By Martyn Bradbury 2 days ago

…planning for a million Te Reo users in 2040 seems as meaningless as being carbon neutral by 2050 because our society won’t be worrying about who can speak Māori and who can’t, it will be a desperate fight for survival in an economy and culture that is scrambling to adapt.

By Martyn Bradbury 2 days ago

…it is extraordinary that this story isn’t leading our news and the main focus of public debate.

By Martyn Bradbury 2 days ago

Let me be perfectly clear to my fellow New Zealanders – you must, you must, you must boycott any and all local elections that use online voting. These systems are completely open to being hacked and once accepted means every election after that is a joke.

By Martyn Bradbury 2 days ago

We need to acknowledge that anger and fear have shaped our prison industrial complex and by reframing the issue as a media generated hysteria, Little could bypass National using that same media to try and spread more hysteria.

TWITTER WATCH BURN OF 2018: Judith Collins blows get tough on crime dog whistle and it explodes gloriously in her face

By Martyn Bradbury 7 hours ago

You would think after retweeting fake news that France was legalising underage sex that Judith Collins would work hard to be less of a malicious pus pit of scumbaggery on Twitter.

You would be wrong.

By Martyn Bradbury 15 hours ago

..it feels like SBW is the Flight of the Conchords and NZ Sport media are TVNZ.

By Martyn Bradbury 16 hours ago

I love how her idea was to cut funding to the student association??? Jesus wept, this is woke de-platforming at it’s most cynical & destructive because once you believe from a fourth wave feminist intersectionist point of view that free speech is white male privilege, any counter is acceptable isn’t it?

By Dr David Robie 1 day ago

“Media Lens has shattered a silence about corporate journalism. Like Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in Manufacturing Consent, they represent a Fifth Estate that deconstructs and demystifies the media’s power.”

By Martyn Bradbury 2 days ago

Oh the irony. Nothing sums up the current failure of NZ media better than this.

By Martyn Bradbury 4 days ago

How did this monstrosity manage to get out of hand so fast in a first world country based on science? Because the corporate media’s favourite whipping boy, beneficiaries, were involved and no one lost money in newspapers from beating up on bludgers.

By Martyn Bradbury 5 days ago

Labour will always be crucified for policy in a way that National never does.

By Martyn Bradbury 5 days ago

I actually like Mark Richardson, sometimes he will blurt something out that is remarkably stupid and sometimes he mainlines the truth of the Universe, this morning on the The AM Show he accidentally did the latter.

GUEST BLOG: Bryan Gould – Positive Money Petition

By The Daily Blog 3 days ago

Many of today’s generation will have forgotten or be unaware of the brave and successful initiative taken by our Prime Minister in the 1930s – the great Michael Joseph Savage. He created new money with which he built thousands of state houses, thereby bringing an end to the Great Depression in New Zealand and providing decent houses for young families (my own included) who needed them.

By The Daily Blog 6 days ago

Rochelle Rees is a mother of a seven-year-old, an IT professional that drinks soy lattes and she’s pretty sure the police have been spying on her.

By The Daily Blog 6 days ago

Sadly, much of the substance of the anger at 1080 seems to draw from the anti-establishment well. This is what saddens me the most; that despite all the evidence of 1080 being effective it is quickly dismissed because there is some relation to a crown entity or state department. Even the independent charities, such as Forest and Bird, are dismissed as being too cosy with government. While there are obvious and understandable reasons people may be sceptical of government and even science; but pest control is not a profitable industry. There is no financial motive, or any discernible motive that comes from the use of 1080. So why would we continue to use it? Because it’s proven to work.

By The Daily Blog 7 days ago

The scientists & conservation workers that I know look forward to the time when reliable, equally-effective alternatives become available – but that time is still, realistically, years away and frankly, our native ecosystems can’t wait that long. We definitely need to keep talking about this issue, and we need to improve the way we do that. The grandstanding and the untruths don’t help anything, least of all the living taonga we all want to protect.

By The Daily Blog 7 days ago

Dave Brownz is TDBs guest Marxist because every left wing blog needs a Marxist.

By The Daily Blog 1 week ago

Bill Rosenberg is the economist and director of policy for the Council of Trade Unions

By The Daily Blog 2 weeks ago

I re-entered politics because I wanted to see hope return for the many New Zealanders whom National had failed. I was sick of seeing the people in my community go without and fall further and further behind as those from the wealthier parts of town danced to a ‘rock star’ economy tune none of us could hear.

By The Daily Blog 2 weeks ago

It’s strange to see that the infamous British politician Nigel Farage didn’t set the internet aflame in New Zealand, but I guess there’s no algorithm to the fickle beast of social media.

The Liberal Agenda – Paper Planes: Theatre Magic from a First-Time Playwright

By The Liberal Agenda 2 weeks ago

Dates: 2nd – 6th October, 6.30pm
Venue: Studio, Basement Theatre
Tickets: $18 – $25
Bookings: www.basementtheatre.co.nz

By The Liberal Agenda 2 weeks ago

He will deliver the 2018 Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture in the Old Government House Lecture Theatre (102-G36) at the University of Auckland at 6pm on Tuesday 23 October.

By The Liberal Agenda 3 weeks ago

Disability & Community Well Being
Thursday 13th September

By The Liberal Agenda 3 weeks ago

Cuckoo’s Nest presents an opportunity to network, socialize and find guidance and support if you require it, or simply come and enjoy the acts.

By The Liberal Agenda 1 month ago

The historic emblem of female rage is reclaimed and brandished in all its glory in MEDUSA, created by visionary feminist theatre makers Nisha Madhan, Julia Croft and Virginia Frankovich. MEDUSA premieres at Circa Theatre Sept 20 – Oct 6, before moving north to Q Theatre Oct 24 – Nov 3 as the fourth work in the powerful MATCHBOX 2018 Season.

By The Liberal Agenda 1 month ago

Saudade plays
Dates: 4/9, 5/9, 6/9, 7/9, 8/9 @ 6:30 PM
Venue: Basement Theatre
Tickets: $15 – $20
Bookings: www.basementtheatre.co.nz or phone iTicket 09 361 1000

By Chris Trotter 1 month ago

Evening On The Land

By Martyn Bradbury 1 month ago

I’m no Daddy Blogger because I don’t write much about my personal life (this is a political blog after all) and because I find Mummy Bloggers to be terribly self righteous and I’d never want to sound like that over a human experience like parenting that has so many variations, interpretations and pathways, so I can only speak humbly for myself and my experience of Fatherhood.

Malcolm Evans – Trump’s Trade War

By Malcolm Evans 8 hours ago

Malcolm Evans – Trump’s Trade War