Is this the Political Cartoon of the Year?!
Can this political cartoon from a Fairfax community newspaper be the most insightful and damaging to National, ever penned?
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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MUST READ: The fiscal stranglehold
When the Fund is included, New Zealand’s net debt level becomes extremely low. Treasury projections in the fiscal update December 2017 show net debt including the fund actually disappears by 2022! Time to stop the fiscal panic please.
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Which of Labour’s trade policies will the PM pursue?
‘As the Prime Minister heads to Europe, with the proposed trade deals with the European Union and Britain at the top of her agenda, which of Labour’s trade policies she is going to pursue?’.
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No Enemies To Labour’s Left?
THE BIGGEST THREAT to NZ First’s and the Greens’ political survival is Labour deciding that it doesn’t need them.
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Govt must tell NZers if the TPPA-11 is its bottom line
US President Donald Trump instructed his National Economic Council Director and the United States Trade Representative to look into joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that he quit just over a year ago. This follows his earlier suggestion that he would consider doing so, provided its terms were made more beneficial to the US.
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Ardern wrong to “accept” US-led air strikes on Syria. The Greens get it right
Prime Minister Adern has made a serious mistake in saying that she “accepts” why the US, UK and France have bombed Syria.
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It is ten seconds to midnight
As predicted by many, Trump has not waited for an investigative team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to carry out it’s work. This despite an OPCW team having already landed in Damascus to conduct it’s investigation.
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Dr Liz Gordon – How to bring down prison numbers (the definitive guide)
Many of us have been advocating a policy-led reduction in prison numbers for a long time. Instead, there has been a policy-led increase in prison numbers. I have talked before about the effects of Christie’s law, that has seen the number of people held in prison before their trial rise by 1,000 to 3,000. Most of those are neither a flight risk nor a danger to the rest of us. Some of them are not guilty and will be found so at trial.
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NORML’s unsubmissive submission on behalf of impatient patients
Hearings on the Government’s medicinal cannabis law reform bill continue throughout April and May, with NORML New Zealand this week delivering an unsubmissive submission on behalf of impatient patients.
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Dave Macpherson – Massive growth in mental health ‘crisis contacts’ – likely to be nationwide
The official response to this foreseeable crisis has been pathetic – a combination of denial and claims that the problems were under control. While former Minister Jonathan ‘Dr Death’ Coleman has now scarpered from Parliament (good riddance), the new Labour Minister of Health David Clark clearly has a hell of a lot of work yet to do to convince us that the mental health crisis is being properly dealt with.