Green Party welfare policy a welcome surprise – Auckland Action Against Poverty
AAAP welcomes the release of the Green Party’s welfare policy. This acknowledges that benefit rates must increase and the punitive…
Year: 2017
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Green infrastructure plan welcome – New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Having a more assertive plan to address climate change should be coupled with initiatives to create opportunities for decent work…
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NZF Rail Link Bottom Line Welcome News For Northland Economic Development
This morning announcement on The Nation by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters that a rail link to Northport, near…
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Greens smash Winston out of the park
If you honestly believe that banning the Maori electorates & making Parliament less democratic are the greatest issues confronting us as a country right now, then you shouldn’t vote!
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G20 meeting highlights the crisis of capitalism
The self-selected ‘cabal’ of ‘Caesars’ meeting at the G20 represented 85% of the world’s GDP, had limited political mandate to make decisions, and excluded most of the ‘Global South’. They embodied the world’s richest elites making decisions affecting the world’s poorest, behind closed doors.
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The left and the elections – don’t mourn, organise
As the election gets closer, everyone has an opinion on what needs to be done for their party to be successful.
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Drinking river water – Tourism NZ puts visitors at risk
The current Minister of Tourism is Paula Bennett. The same Minister who once advocated contraception for beneficiaries as some kind of ‘cure’ for sole-parenting. A major aspect of Tourism NZ’s advertising campaign involves the “100% Pure” theme – a claim largely ridiculed and dismissed by most New Zealanders as a bad-taste joke;
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PNG activist blogger Martyn Namorong protests online in defiance of gag order
“Gagged” PNG blogger Martyn Namorong is not the only one critical of the just-ended elections … News reports mentioned complaints of alleged irregularities … such as discrepancies in voter rolls, inadequate support for polling staff, and inefficient counting of results.
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Green Conference 2017 – Green Infrastructure Plan & NZ carbon neutral by 2050
The Green Conference is on this weekend. James Shaw has announced a Green Infrastructure Plan which looks pretty good.
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Why the NZ First-Green war will escalate
I don’t think this is going to end well.