A Fast Train To A Sustainable Future
TE HUIA, the “fast train” to “Auckland” has been a subject of some contention in my family.
Chris Trotter
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Why Haven’t They … ? How to Explain this Government’s Baffling Refusal to Solve New Zealand’s Problems.
Because people aren’t dying, it is tempting to confer retrospective competence upon a bureaucracy which, in the months since the decisive battle against Covid in March and April of 2020, has demonstrated almost unbelievable ineptitude.
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No Place for Democratic-Socialists in the Undemocratic Neoliberal Government of the Auckland Supercity.
MIKE LEE is the closest Auckland has come to a socialist leader since Mayor “Robbie” (Sir Dove Meyer Robinson) back…
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Principled, Pragmatic and Expedient? You Betcha! A Reply to Paul Buchanan.
MUCH IS BEING MADE of the fact that New Zealand firms are exporting military equipment to unsavoury regimes.
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We Still Haven’t Found What We’re Looking For (With apologies to U2)
We studied the dialectic Read the whole of ‘Capital’ So we could follow you So we could follow you …
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Mike Hosking “De-Platforms” The PM
THE STAND-OFF between Newstalk-ZB’s star host, Mike Hosking, and the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, continues. Yesterday morning’s (7/4/21) encounter, the first since the PM discontinued her weekly interview with Newstalk’s morning host, was said to be the usual battle of wills. According to Hosking, it will also be the last.
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Insufficiently Qualified To Object: Why Labour Ministers Can Be Lied To With Impunity.
DAILY BLOG EDITOR, Martyn Bradbury, has lambasted the state bureaucracy for its failure to tell its political “masters” the truth….
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Red, Red Whines. (With Apologies To Neil Diamond and UB40)
Red, red whines. That’s all you’ll hear. Not like those glory days, When there were cheers. Red, red whines….
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New Zealand, The Way THEY Deserve It!
The National Party’s only real hope of shattering the fast-setting concrete of Labour’s electoral hegemony is to take to it with the jackhammer of right-wing populism.
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Hiding In Plain Sight
Our far-right terrorists have always hidden in plain sight.