Paula Bennett’s arrogance on Housing
Spending $300million on trying to clean up the mess they’ve created in Housing isn’t a solution, it’s just another sign of total failure.
Martyn Bradbury
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Corrections despise the living prisoners they imprison – why would we be surprised at their cruelty towards a dying woman?
Judith Collins could rule on this right now, but she won’t because she knows that NZers love punishment over justice. Our system is corrupt and racist and we like it that way because it mostly benefits white people. Letting a Maori woman out early to die with her whanau is just not an option.
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Why Story had to get axed, why Duncan Garner isn’t much of a saviour and why the new TV3 comedy news show will probably fail
How can you critique the hegemonic power structures of society when your host don’t know what the fuck hegemonic means? It will probably become fart and dick jokes, with the tall bugger from Jono and Beno hosting and some of their female comedians thrown in to try and make it seem diverse.
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Labour Conference eclipsed by Gareth Morgan and how Little resets
I think Gareth Morgan’s announcement of a Party vote only Party focused on pragmatic solutions over riding dogma would have a huge appeal to urban male voters who vote National by default. They are educated and uncomfortable with the inequality around them but wouldn’t vote Green or Labour.
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Labour’s got 63 solutions but brevity ain’t one
Labour need to start thinking about where they should focus their strengths if they want to be the backbone of the next progressive government. Wonk wonk from Wellington Central isn’t enough.
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How convenient for the SIS eh? Terror threat level is burgundy – I repeat, burgundy!
Feeling safe yet NZ? You don’t protect democracy with a police state.
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The Killing off of Cunliffe
With Cunliffe stepping down, the Labour Party not only lose one of their best MPs, they lose any real opportunity to reform its neoliberalism.
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The latest Trump/Clinton machinations and why gender is the real societal fault line this election
If NZ is a test market for the US, the role of secret emails, hackers and dirty politics that all played out in our 2014 election has injected steroids while smoking meth and taken to the American electorate with all the charm of a fully automatic AK-47.
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Saudi Sheep Deal Bribe ruled kinda legal by whitewashing of the lambs report
We’ve just trusted Uncle Muzza with $11million to try and cut a dodgy deal for reasons that are mercenary and without any actual ethics. Yay!
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Labour’s Mt Roskill by-election promise recasts Auckland and Labour relationship
Recasting Labour as an urban party and winning Auckland with a two tick campaign is Labour’s best chance to get 35%.