Four More Limericks For Friday
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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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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.
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Cannabis Social Clubs in New Zealand: the best option for beyond prohibition?
Public support for cannabis law reform is growing, and it seems inevitable that it will happen at some point. It’s no longer a question of should we change the law, what should we change it to and how soon?
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Higher Education – a Privilege of the Rich and the Young?
Tertiary education becomes less accessible each year, with fee increases, reduced student allowance availability, increases in loan repayments, lowering of the income threshold for repayments and unrealistic means testing.
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MUST READ: Mossack Fonseca and Global Tax Avoidance – Economist Keith Rankin
If we encourage others to legally cheat on their own people, and encourage our people to help them cheat on their people, then the global market system fails
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Mark Weldon’s fan club offers support
It appears that there are now two supporters for Mark Weldon;
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Panama Papers: Matthew Hooton’s Alternate Universes on Twitter and Radio NZ
Listen to Hooton’s participation on the panel, and compare his measured commentary on Radio NZ versus his irrational sniping on Twitter. It’s almost as if we’re seeing and hearing two completely different Matthew Hootons from Parallel Universes; our Earth and Earth 2.
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The Number Of The Beast: The New Zealand Left’s Abiding Obsession With John Key
The Left constantly fails to register the brute realities of living in a society driven by the neoliberal imperatives of twenty-first century capitalism. In a world where the interests of the successful individual trump everybody else’s, avoiding and/or evading tax has become an industry in its own right.