Is Labour Trying To Be NZ First-Lite?
Due perhaps to an ongoing lack of vision on the part of our theoretically ‘lead’ Opposition party, we’re quite used to thinking of Labour as being a watered down version of the beliefs of others.
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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EXCLUSIVE: Employers holiday pay cheating can be stopped!
We discovered a bit over a year ago that most employers we dealt with, and the payroll systems they used, were not doing the necessary calculations for this.
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Deflation and very low interest rates
The guardians of monetarism are flummoxed. With almost no evidence, but supreme faith, they believe that there is a direct and (more or less) proportionate relationship between the stock of money and the level of prices.
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John Key is a principled man – except when a photo op arises (A Photo Essay)
Our esteemed Dear Leader would run naked through Hades if there was a photo-op involved.
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Let’s target the real gangs in NZ
The gang problem in New Zealand is totally out of control. It is all pervasive and almost impossible to avoid. Unlike other problems like poverty, which the government has mainly managed to keep out of the rich areas, the gangs now infiltrate every suburb. It is time to identify them and replace welfare with warfare.
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Cullen and Reddy don’t make a convincing case for the spy agencies
The best way out of this confict of interest is for the government’s cybersecurity unit to be independent of the GCSB and any relevant GCSB personnel and equipment to be transferred to the new unit.
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Dear Michael Cullen: the GCSB is not International Rescue!
When a spokesperson for the government tries to employ scare-tactics to persuade the public that increasing surveillance powers for various arms of the State – in this case the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) – is warranted, then suspicions arise.
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Spy report increases the terror threat to New Zealand
Keeping New Zealand and New Zealanders safe is best done by the police under strong democratic oversight through parliament. We should abolish the SIS and GCSB – they contribute only to make New Zealand a target for terrorism.
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MUST READ: Zero hours end product of workers struggle
As I am writing (Thursday, March 10), the New Zealand parliament has unanimously passed a law that will eliminate zero…
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NZ First Shouldn’t Flag Hindi-Language Voters
It would be an inordinate shame if the message the Indian community took away from this particular imbroglio was that New Zealand First didn’t want them to vote.