Government move on electric trains puts Just Transition on the right track – CTU
The Council of Trade Unions today welcomed the Government announcement that Kiwirail would retain 15 electric engines on the Northern…
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NZNO applauds Abortion Law Reform Report
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the Law Commission’s report outlining three alternative legal models for treating abortion as…
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Open letter to NZ Parliament on Julian Assange – Free Assange NZ
NZ Parliament select committee ‘believe they have no jusrisdiction’ to recommend asylum for Assange in New Zealand Parliament’s Foreign Affairs…
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The countdown till December 13th begins – will Simon Bridges still be Leader on the 14th?
This is the worst outcome for National, all that will consume the media between now and the 13th of December is what JLR will say in Parliament under Parliamentary Privilege.
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Surprise, surprise – Kiwibuild is for the children of the white middle classes
Kiwibuild is like the Labour party – it’s for the children of the white middle classes. That’s fine and dandy, but let’s dump the illusion that this is helping the poor and until the new Government do something meaningful on state houses (building 1000 state houses per year isn’t meaningful), they should be savaged ruthlessly and relentlessly.
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Do we really have to spell it out about Karel Sroubek gaining residency? Really?
Oh come on folks, this is petty even for the most angry sensible sentencing trust lynch mob, There should be no surprise or tantrums thrown about Karel Sroubek gaining residency.
Come on…
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Trump Is Many Things – An Anti-Semite, He Is Not
During my .. brief awokenness this afternoon, I happened to peruse the newspaper. And what did I see? Pieces commenting on the recent attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. This is, of course, to be expected. But what was *not*, like *at all* to be expected, was the escalating level of accusations in relation to the attack that Donald Trump… is apparently an anti-semite.
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Political Caption Competition
Where’s Wally?
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The Long-Term Green Advantage of Uncommon Sense
THE MAINSTREAM NEWS media’s constant and effusive praise for Green co-leader, James Shaw, draws into sharp focus the party’s fundamental contradiction. That the supra-political character of the present planetary crisis must doom to failure any attempt to present the Greens as just-another-political-party. Undaunted, Shaw exploits with considerable skill the urgent need of the status-quo’s defenders’ to keep “common-sense solutions” in play. Were in not so tragic, this acquiescence to the short-termism that defines both the intractability of climate change, and of modern politics, would be hugely and comically ironic.
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Meth compensation blunder cruel and shortsighted – AAAP
Housing Minister Phil Twyford recently admitted to only becoming aware last week that the compensation planned for tenants who were…