Families must feature in Budget 2017 – Child Poverty Action Group
In 2017 far too many families have neither a warm safe home nor sufficient money after rent for necessities to…
Year: 2017
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Auditor-General Martin Matthews has now become a political lightening rod – Bill English has to sack him
If English doesn’t do something he looks weak, if he does do something now he at least cauterises the wound before Winston can barnstorm across the provinces with it.
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Alfred Ngaro never considered resigning for threatening social agencies who criticise National’s failed policies
The shallowness of National’s lies when they get caught being what we always suspect them of being are as craven as they are ugly.
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Well come on Judith – are you a crusher or a coward? Will you front for a cannabis debate or not?
…so come on then Judith, are you the great big bad Crusher or are you a Coward? Front the debate and argue your case as to why Cannabis should remain illegal.
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Paula Bennett’s call to tip is National’s new plan to subcontract out lifting wages without raising minimum wage
…so let’s get this fucking straight. Bennett wants to champion a system that is racist, sexist, ageist and xenophobic?
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So what Judith Collins is really saying is that she would have supported Apartheid
It doesn’t matter how unjust the law is, it doesn’t matter that it is needlessly locking up thousands and thousands of NZers in prison, it doesn’t matter if it gives the Police unreasonable search powers, it doesn’t matter that the law is a disgusting hypocrisy, all that matters is that it’s the law no matter how awful that law is.
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BREAKING: Sky News reporting 19 dead at Manchester Explosion
UPDATE: 19 dead, 50 injured
UPDATE: Officials say it is a ‘terrorist’ investigation
UPDATE: Many hurt are young
UPDATE: CNN reporting investigators are looking at possibility of suicide bomber in Manchester explosion
UPDATE: 22 dead, 59 injured
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The 7 surreal moments from Trumps Saudi Arabia visit
It is almost impossible to keep up with the madness of Trump over the last 2 weeks, but his trip to Saudi Arabia has to be the most fucking surreal thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
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A Radically Reasonable Proposal For Cigarettes And Dairy Owners
The ongoing travails of our nation’s convenience store and dairy operators have grown to such a scale that even those perennial champions of Ostrich Economics in our Government are unable to ignore them.