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.
Martyn Bradbury
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Paula Bennett is a political coward
Let’s get this straight, Paula Bennett is such a coward, that she refused to appear on a TV panel with Chloe Swarbrick to debate cannabis reform?
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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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The PMs censorship panel highlights all that’s wrong with the current social media/free speech debate
So the panel advising the PM on censuring the internet is an industry spokesperson, a corporate media interest, an angry Twitter rage tech person, a lawyer, a state wonk and someone who used to sing Popera?
And this isn’t a joke?
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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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Waatea News Column: State Spying and a Police who see no spying, hear no spying and speak no spying
John Campbell’s remarkable investigation at the beginning of the week into a Government agency tasked with looking after earthquake survivors using corporate spies to secretly tape those complaining was made more important by the remarkable announcement midweek from the NZ Police that found nothing illegal in the actions of anyone involved.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – Police visits, Te Mata Peak, James Cameron, Zero Carbon Bill, Speaker Mallard , JLR latest crack at Simon Bridges
This Week – Police visits, Te Mata Peak, James Cameron, Zero Carbon Bill, Speaker Mallard , JLR latest crack at Simon Bridges
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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.