Online voting won’t lift participation but a midweek public holiday might
We need an out of the box idea, not more tinkering at the edges.
Martyn Bradbury
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Has the woke Wellington Twitteratti lynch mob called for the cancellation of Professor James Flynn yet? At the least an Action Station petition?
The manner in which middle class identity politics has eclipsed the class based left as the movements dominant ideology has created all sorts of intellectual paradoxes.
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Dear Auckland, after disastrous election turn out – isn’t it time to re-examine the far right experiment that is the SuperCity?
Aucklanders weaponised their apathy because the Supercity democracy is a farce, a grotesque masquerade of democratic representation to trick people into participating so that it has the pretence of legitimacy, and Aucklanders, stuck in their gridlock see how hollow the promises of infrastructure investment really are.
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TVNZ POLL: National 47%, Labour 40%, Green 7%, NZ First 4%
It’s a harsh lesson for Labour that allegations in the age of social media trump actual guilt or innocence but as insane as that is, that’s where we are now.
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TV3 Poll: National 43.9%, Labour 41.6%, Green 6.3%, NZ First 4%, ACT 1.4%
Even at the height of accusing Jacinda of covering up a sexual assault, only 2.5% more liked Simon Bridges. When you can’t win any more favour off the person being accused of covering up a sex crime, you really do need to ask some serious questions.
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As msm scramble to explain low voter turnout – why voters weaponised their apathy & how to actually solve it
There needs to be a wholesale re-investment into Local Government so that instead of being a faux democratic choice, citizens actually feel like their vote means something rather than an act masquerading as democracy for the illusion of legitimacy.
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Auckland Mayoralty 2019: Winners & Losers
Goff limps home to victory in an election that barely a third of the City has bothered to vote for and will preside over a divided Council. Who are the winners and who are the losers in Auckland Mayoralty 2019?
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Welfare Debt slaves for life: The horror of the toxic culture of WINZ & why ethical debt collection is the only answer
The neoliberal welfare state in New Zealand is designed to be as punitive as possible so as to frighten the beneficiary from even daring to ask for help in the first place.
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All Blacks World Cup Match cancelled by an extreme weather event and local rugby mad media don’t connect dots
Fuck the rugby! This typhoon and its unprecedented speed of intensification is the story here not a bloody sports game!
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What does the revelation that SIS broke the law again against Nicky Hager mean to you as New Zealanders?
We all agreed post 9-11 to allow our Governments to ramp up powers to protect us from a terrorist attack of that magnitude, but who has the State actually been going after since 9-11?