Homelessness National’s disgraceful legacy – Labour Party
National is failing in the most basic duty of a government – ensuring all our people have a place to…
Year: 2017
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Nats show they’re the tax dodgers’ best friends – Labour Party
“The government is taking the knife to IRD at a time when we need a highly skilled department to ensure…
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A Cautionary Tale From Canada
With Winston exhaling anger, and Metiria Turei breathing hope, Andrew Little and Labour need to offer the New Zealand electorate something more than a deflated ideological balloon.
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Winston Peter’s double downs on Maori electorate race baiting – less the Emperor has no clothes and more Grandad has forgotten his robe
Winston is showing us all that even when caught out by his own provincial pakeha fairytales about Maori, he’s so hell bent on being Prime Minister that he’ll tip the country into civil unrest to get it.
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What the snarling social media rage against Metiria’s brave admission says about NZ as a culture
So entrenched is our hatred of the poor and beneficiaries that we can’t contextualise the position Metiria and tens of thousands of others are forced to undergo. We can’t help but hate beneficiaries for reminding us the system fails when we are so focused on celebrating individual success and wealth.
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Labour announces $19billion social infrastructure rebuild
…the chronic underfunding of the social infrastructure of NZ so that National can gerrymander a surplus for tax cuts has to end if we want to be serious about education, hospitals, mental health, superannuation and inequality reduction programs.
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Is MSD keeping track of #IamMetiria ?
This viciousness is not only seen in the spiteful policy of MSD but also in the mass surveillance powers they have given themselves to spy on beneficiaries. Which leads to an interesting question, because MSD spy on social media for welfare fraud, are they following the #IamMetiria social media campaign and will begin secretly investigating anyone who uses the tag?
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MĀORI SEATS OR NOT?
As we head into this year’s election NZ First has dangled the carrot of a binding referendum on whether the Māori seats should be abolished. Given it has been NZ First policy to abolish the seven Māori electorates for some time the position taken just over two months out from an election is not surprising.
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Self-hating Maori Winston Peters has to start the grand climb down over racist lies against Maori electorates
The sad old lies that Winston needs to drag around to appeal to his new redneck provincial Maori hating voter block has made Winston dog whistle a tune so dangerous that if implemented would mean civil war in this country.
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The top 10 reasons why IPCA let cops investigating Todd Barclay off the hook
That the political double standards and real abuses of power occurring here can be eclipsed by the snarling viciousness at a female politician admitting to breaking the law because of poverty 24 year ago says a lot about us as a juvenile culture.