Simon Bridges, Mike Sabin and the National government’s $120 million taxpayer rort.
Bridges colleague Mike Sabin, former policeman and former National MP, was at the heart of the moral panic over meth.
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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And they did this for 194 pages…
I’ve had the chance to read the interim report of the tax working group over the weekend and it’s a sorry, sad document.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Supporting communities against alcohol harm
The alcohol industry is a large and wealthy one. There is plenty of money to be made. But it is important to understand that it is also a harmful one, as recognised by those women 125 years ago. In principle the law now recognises the right of communities to stand as equals and oppose harmful applications. In practice, wealth, power and lawyer’s writs seek constantly to quash the practice of an equal say.
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Oslo deception exposed – defend UNRWA – BDS can bring justice
A member of the Israeli anti-Zionist Breaking the Silence movement, who had served with Israeli Occupation forces in the Palestinian…
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Pitiful response to Housing NZ meth hysteria
The “pocket money” offer to state house tenants wrongly evicted from their homes based on bogus meth testing is deeply cynical and insulting.
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Annual Leave: Time’s Up – Pay it back!
Hundreds of millions of dollars are owed to hundreds of thousands of workers and only the top 100 employers are being asked to fix the problem and pay it back.
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A Modest Proposal For Russia’s Response To Israel In The Wake Of An F-16
So now the dust (or, perhaps, some measure of the ‘fog of war’) is starting to clear over Monday’s events in Syria, it’s probably prudent to reflect on what Putin can and should do in response to what has occurred.
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Has Neoliberalism Colonised Our Minds?
New Zealand is by no means exempt from the effects of this unravelling neoliberal hegemony. In this country, also, there is a large colonised population presided over by a distant and hated elite. We, too, have constructed an underclass whose full citizenship and personhood is routinely denied in overcrowded prisons; at the counter of the local WINZ office; and by “unconsciously biased” teachers, medics and cops.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Suffrage 2018 – Until death
So this suffrage day, celebrate 125 years, mourn those no longer with us as a result of domestic violence, whisper in the ear of men friends who seem to be overly possessive and let’s work towards a violence free future.
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No Substance To Her Stardust: Has Jacinda Lost The Magic?
HOW DID IT HAPPEN? Where did she go? The Jacinda Ardern who rocked our world? Where did she lose her sparkle and her stardust? What, or who, took from her the qualities that had so decisively interposed themselves between the centre-left and almost certain defeat?