The Nation Review: Dear Matthew Hooton – your boy Simon needs you
Simon passed so much evil legislation in 9 years, it’s hard for him to keep track of them all.
Year: 2018
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Political Caption Competition
Seven Sharp – broadcast from inside TVNZ’s womb
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 4th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The latest abomination from WINZ
The horror of WINZ is once again laid bare with policy so draconian and counter productive, you just have to label it evil…
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Justice depends upon truth
On Wednesday, 21 February this year, Israeli Army bulldozers arrived to destroy the the home of Atta Jaber and lay waste to what was left of the land that had been in his family for 800 years.
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Ummmmm – James Shaw seems confused at the Summer Policy Conference as to why the Greens got smashed so let’s spell it out for him
At their Summer Policy Conference this weekend, The Green Party announced that they would ban any and all kickbacks for their MPs, meaning Yoga Corporations, Big Tofu and The Bicycle Industrial Complex will be outraged!
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Why would you fill in the Census online in a post-Snowden world?
So the drive to make this cheaper means there is no personal contact point to pressure compliance, it opens the data up to being used by more powerful state agents, allows the information to be hacked and leaves the poor out. Combine this Wellington Bureaucrat Fuckwittery together and you have what I believe will be the worst return data for a Census on record.
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Simon Bridges likely to treat Māori the way John Key treated state house tenants
I think having a Maori political leader is a very positive and hopeful step only if that leader uses his position and influence to dispel destructive stereotypes about Māori – not perpetuate them.
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Housing for need not speculation
Despite stopping further sales, housing remains one area where the government remains committed to almost a completely market-based solution. For various reasons in this country, housing has become a speculative nightmare with prices beyond what working people can afford.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – abuse of women in prison and illegal strip searches
If Corrections NZ spent as much time and energy looking after prisoners welfare as they do trying to gag me and punish me for holding them to account, we wouldn’t need to do this in the first place.