NZers need to understand National doesn’t care about homelessness or housing affordability
What consistently gets missed in the on going arguments about the Hoising Crisis is that National have no interest whatsoever in solving the problem.
Martyn Bradbury
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The Spinoff’s first great victory in their Unitary Plan war on blah blah – where’s Patrick Reynolds now?
The simple truth is that only a political revolution akin to Bernie Sanders is going to change NZs addiction with property. Most of our MPs are property speculators and their vested interests won’t and can’t be changed.
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The real issues of sex offenders in the community that Q+A totally miss
Q+A this morning was a disgrace. They had Crusher Collins on to do her usual tough on crime routine with Sex Offenders and Q+A allowed her to scare monger.
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John Key still won’t apologise for prison rape ‘joke’ despite BSA ruling
The BSA has ruled that John Key’s hilarious rape joke on notoriously sexist radio station ‘The Rock’ was unacceptable…
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First it was luggage rights, now it’s mail-out reform? Key fiddles while our water burns
How can we justify wasting that on politically motivated spite legislation when we have 40 000 homeless, 300 000 children in poverty, kiwis living in cars, a housing crisis, a trade war with China, a weak steel scandal brewing and water polluted by the Government’s political allies to solve?
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National’s contempt for Teachers finally outed with talk of on-line education
National see teachers as Taxi drivers in an uber world.
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Why saliva testing for road side impairment tests will be madness
No one wants people who are impaired to drive a car. That’s fine, that’s a public safety issue, no one would be crazy enough to want people who are dangerous on the roads being on the roads.
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Removing the word ‘special needs’ so you don’t have to fund ‘special needs’
The latest assualt on civil society by the National Government is this desire to cut funding to special needs children by dumping the word ‘special needs’…
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Ummm, did Bill Liu/William Yan just buy his own justice?
…the 5th most wanted on China’s top 10 most wanted and a huge donor to National and Labour has just paid the cops $42.85 million and he’s off all his charges?
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Three and a half years jail for growing cannabis
While there is much to celebrate about those who manage to leave the country and fly back in with prescription cannabis, this loop hole is open to those who can afford it and it ignores the continued criminalisation of those involved in growing it and those who can’t travel.