Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine: On Internal Changes Within NZ First And What It Might Mean For 2017
To quote Galadriel, the world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.
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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Andrew Little’s “dangerous” speech – a cunning plan for the Middle and the Left
Speaking to a fully packed downtown conference centre in Wellington, on a cold, gloomy rainy afternoon, Labour-leader, Andrew Little launched into a fiery attack on the current National Government focusing on it’s inarguably lack-lustre track record for the past eight years.
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Why NZ should leave the Five Power Defence Arrangement
New Zealand’s involvement in the Five Power Defence Arrangement is not well known, but it’s now getting us in a lot of trouble.
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Foot in Mouth award – another former ACT MP plumbs new depths of dumbness
“Nuclear war is not the end of the world.” – Heather Roy, Q+A Panel, 22 May 2016
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Left Unsaid: What Andrew Little Didn’t Say In His Pre-Budget Speech
READING ANDREW LITTLE’S pre-Budget speech, one could almost be forgiven for thinking he was the leader of a socialist party. Almost.
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Council tenants face eviction as government cons City Councils
Tenants of council-provided social housing face the risk of eviction after the government misled councils into putting council housing into private housing trusts believing this would give them access to the government’s IRRS (Income Related Rental Subsidy).
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So Who are the Real Greedies?
It is amazing how many blame the victims of neo-liberal ideology, rather than looking at the causes of why things happen. Are some people really so simple-minded that they can’t see beyond their immediate prejudices…?
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The Space To Make Dreams Come True: Why Labour’s Latest Move On Housing Could Be A Ground-Breaker
This is a major policy announcement from Labour’s housing spokesperson. By embracing the virtues of expansion over intensification, the party has repositioned itself as a defender of Auckland’s characteristic urban sprawl – and everything that goes with it.
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Hooton and Farrar slag Key – With friends like these…
The Panama Papers continue to simmer and National’s greatest fear is that the public will link tax-dodging to the current government. (Up-coming political polls will be interesting to see.) But that is not all that National’s hierarchy has to worry about.