Latest Poll: Labour 49.6%, National 41.3%, NZ First 2.3%, Greens 3.9%
The Business NZ Poll taken just after the atrocity shows what TDB suggested the political outcomes from the Christchurch attack would be…
Martyn Bradbury
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Census has been an utter, utter, utter failure – why isn’t anyone being held responsible?
Just like the Housing NZ meth house abortion, just like the Kiwbuild fiasco, just like stealing Māori children into a state care system that abuses them, just like a dozen other neoliberal hollowing out of a Public Services, we’ve been left with a service that doesn’t serve the public, it serves the bureaucrats and then the bureaucrats get flustered that the public have nothing but contempt for them.
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Why Hooton is half right, Liam Heir assures the Right they can go back to being arseholes and the less said about Kate Hawkesby the better
The right wing pundits are desperate to move the debate along because Jacinda led in a way that they can’t seriously counter and so would prefer to forget her extraordinary leadership by sullying it by suggesting immoral political expedience, the political ‘gravity’ returning pettiness to the agenda or personal aggrandisement ending the Government altogether.
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Waatea News Column: Meanwhile, the planet is melting
The latest state of the climate report by the World Meteorological Organisation out this month makes for some grim reading.
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Ummmm, soz Mike Hosking, but the CGT numbers do deceive
Labour can get a CGT over the line by restricting who it punishes, and by aiming its sharpest edges towards those who property speculate. As long as Labour are prepared to fight and articulate why a CGT is fair, they can get this passed.
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NZ can only trade with China while it remains Internationally benign – what happens if that changes?
Becoming economically reliant on China is not a position we want to remain in.
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The neoliberal welfare state is refusing to pay the politics of kindness anything other than lip service
The only way to force reform is shaming. The Government must look to the many, many NGOs and Community organisations that are forced to interact with the neoliberal welfare state and fund them to act as service support for beneficiaries and to produce public reports on counter productive policy.
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Royal Commission of Inquiry into white supremacist atrocity will ask hard questions
This Inquiry may well be the most important examination of domestic intelligence ever conducted and it will be overseen by a Government who have clearly shown they will take direct action for change.
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Gun nuts should be under surveillance now
The more & more I read of the irrational, wilfully ignorant & down right malicious crap spouted by the NZ Gun Lobby…
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Why Shane Jones must be destroyed
Shane Jones is being publicly flogged in the media in todays Political Roundup.