Conservative capitalism, befitting our country’s constituency
Mile’s Law says where you stand, depends on where you sit.
Christine Rose
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Potential and promise
The election was not just a rush to Labour. It was a rush away from National.
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Polarising politics
It’s the time of the triennium when all you want to talk and hear about is politics – and the last thing you want to hear and talk about is politics.
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There are worse things than lowering the voting age
Unfortunately, the reasons for not giving people under the age of 18 the vote, are reminiscent of the reasons for not giving the vote to women, or ethnic groups, or to people in prison, or who don’t own land.
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Left wing, Right wing – It’s the same bird
Judith Collins has been coached.
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A Cannabis ‘Yes’ Vote, Policy Development Fit For Our Times
While political parties are conservative, cautious, and economically neo-liberal more than they are socially liberal, New Zealanders have a chance to drive policy directly.
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Beware the Zombie Apolitics
Labour came into office talking about transformation. Since then, the whole country has indeed been transformed.
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Policy, promises and praxis
Personality matters more than policy in the political age where parties are clustered at the extreme centre. Just ask Andrew Little.
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The art of walking forward
Judith ‘the Crusher’ Collins dispenses with any attempts to sing by Jacinda’s songbook. She’s confident enough in her own beliefs and her own ideologies to carry not just her own luggage (and baggage), but to do it with chutzpah. She is apologetic to no-one for her views, her past, her ambition, her policies, her eye on the end prize, or her decisiveness.
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The primary sector power paradox
Primary production and big business have the power, money is all, and low-quality jobs and industry are better than no jobs at all, even if profits go offshore.