Sacking the Auckland Transport Board & cutting deals to decongest traffic in central Auckland – JT vs Goff week 1
You can say many things about JT, lack of vision isn’t one of them.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Mega-strike a taste of the new militant Union landscape in New Zealand
Ever since the National Party neutered the Union movement with the Employment Contracts Act, Public sector Union’s have been cowered into acquiescence and the militancy evaporated.
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Sexual assaults in prison shouldn’t get ideologically hijacked
Let us have a serious debate about sexual assault in prisons by acknowledging double bunking has been an enormous failure in keeping prisoners safe and that it must be removed as a policy if we are to do anything meaningful on sexual assaults in prison.
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Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm shouldn’t an advisory board to the PM on censoring the internet require some academics and experts on civil rights and freedom of speech?
A couple of tech people, a lawyer, industry interests, corporate media interests and Lizzie Marvelly???
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Of course the 100000 Kiwibuild houses was a stunt
I have spoken to the person who was Shearer’s advisor on this, and they admitted that it was a stunt to blunt Cunliffe’s aspirations and that it was never costed out because who would complain if they only built 70 000?
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Sure, Russell Brown & The Drug Foundation are excited, but should the rest of us be excited?
It isn’t binding in a move to drag stoners to the ballot boxes, it is a similar stunt to what Labour is proposing for social welfare, ‘vote for us and we might implement benefit increases and implement cannabis reform’.
Never mind the ongoing injustice.
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Last week Simon Bridges was attacking slushies this week Paula Bennett is raging against cannabis gummy bears
The simple truth is that the National Party are being dicks about the Cannabis referendum.
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Why being Carbon Neutral by 2050 is meaningless
Being soft on methane is such a spineless move for a sunset industry like dairy who even in their death throws of being economically viable in the wake of synthetic meat and milk still manage to drag our collective feet on any meaningful legislation.
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The remarkable Leadership of Kiri Allan
I am an enormous fan of Labour MP Kiri Allan.
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If this is the year of delivery, do Labour, NZ First & the Greens understand the word delivery?
I have argued many times that this Government wasn’t expecting to win and so walked into Government with no actual plan of what the hell to do and how to reform the neoliberal public service enough to force change through. What we are seeing is a civil service fair more interested in doing nothing than being forced to do something and so work to water down any real reform so they can keep control of their fiefdoms, with many of the new Ministers unfamiliar with Executive power, they have been easily sidelined or manipulated into stagnation.