MUST READ: Cannabis referendum: fear and lies outgun the truth
The cannabis referendum campaign has become a battle of truth versus lies – and the facts are losing.
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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What? No benefit increases
Now we know. It is official. No more pretence of working on the fundamental WEAG reforms to core benefits. No plans to address the rising child poverty rates projected by Treasury under the current COVID recession. Just more rhetoric around how paid work solves everything and some minor policies that should have been done 3 years ago.
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Cruelty Destroys Young Mums: Boss Demands $35,000 to Stop Dismissal – More Evil Than We Thought
Father Prevented From Taking Young Wife in Labour to Hospital
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Where NZ First Went Wrong
Last night’s Reid Research poll – coming as it does upon the heel of last week’s Colmar Brunton and seeming to confirm the party’s down in the margin-of-error thickets of circa two percent – should be worrying for them.
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There are worse things than lowering the voting age
Unfortunately, the reasons for not giving people under the age of 18 the vote, are reminiscent of the reasons for not giving the vote to women, or ethnic groups, or to people in prison, or who don’t own land.
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Workers Fired Because They Asked For Fairness: Boss Pockets Money – Coward Goes into Hiding
This morning we were supposed to be in Mediation with James Delmont, the boss of Dollar Dealers – the Auckland pawn shop chain. But he’s a no-show. Apparently, he’s made other plans.
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True Believers In A False God
What the hell is going on, when a businesswoman from the Mid-Western United States is willing to wipe out her entire family rather than face the prospect of living under a Democratic President?
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MUST READ: Debate without substance
The exchanges were dull, trite, soundbite-driven and truncated by the format. Between regular ad breaks and John Campbell’s interruptions, the contenders were given ridiculously short timespans to enunciate their policy proposals and vision for New Zealand
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Going High, Not Low: An Assessment of the First Leaders’ Debate
THE PEOPLE who awarded the first Leaders’ Debate to Judith Collins are the people we learned to loathe during Lockdown….