After dropping my beloved daughter off at school, I walk home via Krd in Auckland. The coffee is good, the people are my kind of people and the bustle of the day carries a momentum with it that puts a skip in ones step.
The surprise and angry denunciation of the Maori Party for taking the stance they did suggests to me that most NZers, many Labour Party supporters included, don’t fully appreciate the naked manipulation of power Helen conducted to maintain her leadership. Rather than challenging the centre’s ignorance, she gave into it.
We need to ban foreign ownership, bring in a capital gains tax and build 100 000 affordable houses for first time buyers and 10 000 state homes to be built in Auckland alongside an urban intensification to solve this Housing Crisis.
As more and more citizens question the neoliberal capitalism we have, the further old political parties do everything to try and repress real policy changes from the free market dogma.
The terrible case of a young cricketeer allegedly raping a young woman is as depressing as the defence the lawyers has tried to use today.
Labour have come out with an incredibly serious allegation that Steven Joyce and other Government Ministers manipulated the foreign buyers register to make the numbers appear far smaller than they really are…
Our love of locking people up has been manipulated so much so that we don’t actually care anymore if innocent people are trapped within our prison system. The Government won’t even consider if we have innocent people in prison, which is why a group of academics have had to step in and build an innocence project themselves.
Trump and Clinton are telling American voters that they won’t sign the TPPA because of its impact on the working class.
This is nonsense.
John Key built NZ intro a tax haven and had his private lawyer who uses tax havens muscle in on the Revenue Minister to ensure no IRD crack down occurred.
The surprise by the mainstream media that the Maori Party won’t support Helen Clark’s bid for the UN says more about them than it does the Maori Party.