National’s (“New”) Boot Camps Policy – HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER? Or Will That Just Be The Criminals
It has been said by a mind far wittier than myself that whilst history doesn’t repeat … it sure does…
Curwen Rolinson
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Jacinda Effect > Metiria Affect – Why The Greens’ Polls Are Down
In the coming days, as the vultures of various news outlets attempt to pick clean the carcass of a once-indomitable…
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THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES – What Ardern/Davis Means For NZF & MANA
By the end of this week, a quantity of ink fit to fill Lake Rotoiti – and sufficient electrons to power Tiwai Point for about the space of half an hour – will no doubt have been marshalled in service of commentating upon what Jacinda Ardern’s ‘shock’ elevation to the leadership of Labour means for that party. And, for that matter, the prospects of actually securing ‘progressive’ governance in 2017.
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BATTLEGROUND WAIRARAPA
Every Election, there’s a seat or several whose outcomes are fantastically interesting to watch. This is because they are the ones that are actually balanced upon the knife-edge – where a few dozen votes one way or ‘tuther will actually help to determine the shape and course of our politics for years or even decades to come.
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The Kiwi Motörhead – New Zealand First Convention Coverage 2017
I realized something the other day. New Zealand First is basically the Kiwi Politics equivalent to Motorhead. And while I’d…
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On Why The Greens REALLY Tore Into NZ First Over The Weekend
I’ve taken awhile off commenting on a .. certain area of New Zealand Politics for personal reasons; but looking at my newsfeed for the past 24 hours, it’s pretty clear a number of things need to be said about the Green Party’s recent comments on New Zealand First.
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Are Todd Barclay And National High-Ups Guilty Of Witness Tampering?
There’s just something about living in a small, insular ‘everybody-knows-everybody’ kinda place that makes attempts at pulling off a genuine “cover-up” something of a fool’s errand.
Todd Barclay, apparently, is that fool.
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A Point To Consider On s59 ‘Anti-Smacking’ Debate
There’s a point to be made on this whole ‘Anti-Smacking’/s59 debate which New Zealand First has brought back to the limelight, that I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else making.
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Only Thing “Rancid” About Butter Chicken Comment Is Shane Jones
There are a few things to be said in response to Shane Jones’ recent declaration that New Zealand’s immigration policy…
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“Oh Snap” – Storming Into The New And Excellently Populist World Post-UK General Election
At the time of writing, we are perhaps a mere forty-eight hours after the results of the UK’s General Election came in. And already, it seems like an entire Amazonian forest of trees, and a fairly literal Black Sea of ink have already been spilled in attempting to make sense of what has happened.