What’s Behind National’s Sudden Police Priority? Winston!
Accept no imitations. The only time National’s generally serious about bolstering the number of ‘boys in blue’ is when they’re out electioneering to increase their Caucus.
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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Red Shift: Labour Reorients Itself Toward Small Business
The key question of Robertson’s FoW inquiry has been: What must Labour do to guarantee employers a steady supply of productive workers as New Zealand and the rest of the world enters the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution”?
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French Politicians Exploiting Public Fears to Deny Real Freedoms for Muslim Women
How much oppression is justified to enforce liberty? That’s a question arising from the ban on Burkhas and ‘Burkhinis’ in France and Spain. And when does mandatory secularism become an excuse for bigotry, racism and sexism? We’ve also seen some answers to that.
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If this isn’t corrupt practice, what is?
It’s become a well-accepted fact in Christchurch that wealthier areas of the city received a better deal from government agencies and quicker responses to the disastrous earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 than poorer suburbs.
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Child poverty linked to tertiary education policy in recent report
“The issue of student debt is often cited as a deterrent, but perhaps a greater barrier to tertiary education is the immediate financial hardship while undertaking study.”
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Special Education Funding – Robbing Peter, Paul, and Mary to pay Tom, Dick, and Harriet
National has come up with many “reforms”, proposals, policies, and ideas that eventually fail, or create unforeseen (or often foreseen; pre-warned; and ignored) problems. On this occasion, the proposal to increase spending for under-fives children with special needs, at the expense of older children, is short-sighted madness that beggars belief.
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Four Rhymes For the Weekend
In defiance of police, priest and prude
Frenchwomen go sunbathing nude.
They are free to get tanned,
But Burkini’s are banned,
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Popular reforms being stymied by National and Labour
Politicians lose respect when they know something needs to be done but won’t do it for fear of losing a few votes.
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There’s An Easy Solution To The Present Kiwisaver Cluster Munitions Debacle – Kiwifund
Last week, retirement-savers from around the country were shocked to discover that their hard-earned investment funds were potentially going towards funding the invention, sale and distribution of land mines, cluster munitions, and other nefarious products. Nuclear weapons are also apparently on the portfolio-books.
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Sitting Down For Socialism: Jeremy Corbyn infuriates the British Establishment – again.
The entire episode epitomises the way in which the British Establishment and its media attack-dogs have sought to deal with the Corbyn threat.