Greens smash Winston out of the park
If you honestly believe that banning the Maori electorates & making Parliament less democratic are the greatest issues confronting us as a country right now, then you shouldn’t vote!
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G20 meeting highlights the crisis of capitalism
The self-selected ‘cabal’ of ‘Caesars’ meeting at the G20 represented 85% of the world’s GDP, had limited political mandate to make decisions, and excluded most of the ‘Global South’. They embodied the world’s richest elites making decisions affecting the world’s poorest, behind closed doors.
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The left and the elections – don’t mourn, organise
As the election gets closer, everyone has an opinion on what needs to be done for their party to be successful.
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Drinking river water – Tourism NZ puts visitors at risk
The current Minister of Tourism is Paula Bennett. The same Minister who once advocated contraception for beneficiaries as some kind of ‘cure’ for sole-parenting. A major aspect of Tourism NZ’s advertising campaign involves the “100% Pure” theme – a claim largely ridiculed and dismissed by most New Zealanders as a bad-taste joke;
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PNG activist blogger Martyn Namorong protests online in defiance of gag order
“Gagged” PNG blogger Martyn Namorong is not the only one critical of the just-ended elections … News reports mentioned complaints of alleged irregularities … such as discrepancies in voter rolls, inadequate support for polling staff, and inefficient counting of results.
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Green Conference 2017 – Green Infrastructure Plan & NZ carbon neutral by 2050
The Green Conference is on this weekend. James Shaw has announced a Green Infrastructure Plan which looks pretty good.
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Why the NZ First-Green war will escalate
I don’t think this is going to end well.
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Look at the extremes National will go to get Todd Barclay out of the headlines
The extreme tactics being used by the National Party to get the media to keep Todd Barclay out of the headlines suggests the polling from David Farrar is in and the verdict is that the association is damaging to National.
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Latest Roy Morgan Poll puts Greens/Labour ahead while leaked UMR shows drop
The homicidal chipmunk of NZ news and current affairs, Patrick Gower, is holding up a leaked UMR poll to spell doom for Labour…
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NZ Initiative – Bulk Funding Schools
On 6 July, the “NZ Initiative” – a re-branded right-wing think-tank previously known as the NZ Business Roundtable – released a propaganda-piece entitled, ‘Amplifying Excellence: Promoting Transparency, Professionalism and Support in Schools’. The so-called “report” advocated more sly “free market” forces unleashed onto our constantly-changing education system.