Is new Welfare Advisory Panel another swing and a miss?
Just like Clare Curran’s sad panel with no real mana to change public broadcasting, the new welfare advisory panel has been announced and it’s missing some crucial voices.
Martyn Bradbury
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TVNZ Colmar Poll and evidence of the new Ally Party TDB warned you about months ago
The Government needs a far better communications plan, their selling of the budget was woeful, and they need to put together a strategy to ram through public service reform so that they can actually get policy adopted rather than resisted.
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Could Trump become a dictator and never leave office?
The problem of having power defined by convention is if you get an individual who isn’t prepared to follow that convention.
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New Poll dangerous for Government & Simon Bridges
There is a real danger now that this will be a one term Government, if Judith takes power, the plan is to unleash a right wing anger which will be extreme. No one on our side of the political fence has any comprehension of what is building.
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If MPI put in as much energy attacking Mycoplasma bovis as they do Rachel Stewart and Duncan Garner we wouldn’t have a problem
This is a public service that does the public a disservice. they have been so run down and underfunded they are a toothless watchdog that has become a lapdog to those they are supposed to guard against.
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Abortion rights, Maori Wards and Cannabis – why can’t NZ show any bloody courage?
In the wake of Ireland’s historic and righteous abortion reform, NZ is once again looking like the book burner in a library – if Ireland can find the courage, why can’t NZ update its ridiculous laws on abortion?
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Neoliberalism has mutated MPI into an agency that protects Industry from regulation – does Nash deserve the bash?
The neoliberal public service that Shane Jones was recently blasting is there to do as little as possible while building their own fiefdoms. All we have leant from them is that they are as useless at looking after cows as they are beneficiaries and miners.
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National Party Northcote candidate plays hate card against the poor, then realises he’s played it and backtracks
No wonder National are starting to panic.
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Trump flunks North Korea
News out overnight that Trump has walked away from the North Korean summit shouldn’t surprise anyone more than the original announcement of the summit.
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Dear Phil Twyford – Kia kaha Comrade
your gracefulness at offering your resignation for this phone call on a plane only makes you a better human being and leader.