Does Labour’s Man In The Wairarapa Have A Gaping Gulf Betwixt Rhetoric And Reality?
Earlier in the week, Wairarapa Labour candidate Kieran McAnulty made some pretty stirling remarks about the problems of social housing…
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – URGENT: Maori and youth voters being abused by Electoral Commission staff – KNOW YOUR VOTING RIGHTS!
In 2017, I will not tolerate any attempt to rob Maori or young people of their right to vote because of a incompetence and ignorance at our electoral booths.
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BREAKING: ELECTORAL COMMISSION UNDERMINING OF MAORI RIGHTS – COMPLAINTS NATIONWIDE
Only a week into early voting, complaints have been laid with the Electoral Commission about misinformation being provided to Maori…
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Political Caption Competition
Once again it will require red and green to solve a blue problem
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 17th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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16 Political Decisions that show National don’t care about the environment
16 Political Decisions that show National don’t care about the environment
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Jacinda Ardern – Setting the record straight on National’s tax scaremongering
Jacinda Ardern – Setting the record straight on National’s tax scaremongering
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VOTE!
IF, ON ELECTION NIGHT 2017, you end up staring at the numbers in horrified disbelief. If National proves the people at Reid Research are the best pollsters in the business. If the Jacinda Train runs out of puff several percentage-points short of being able to form a government. If the Greens: the dear, earnest, tree-hugging Greens; fall below the 5 percent MMP threshold. If, after all these calamities, you’re casting about in your anger and your grief for an explanation, then reclaim from the back of your mind this crucial piece of information from Elections New Zealand.
As at 15 September, just over a week out from Election Day, “nearly 20,000 fewer young people under 30 [have] registered compared with 2014”.
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Little chance of system change, but change in government is a good place to start
For those of us who also want a more fundamental change than just rearranging the parliamentary seating order, and minor changes by degrees, in some ways, hope competes with despair. I’d like to take a vote on neo-liberalism itself but it’s not even on the agenda.
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Political Caption Competition
Why Young Nats are virgins into their mid 20s