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  1. For anybody to actually believe them, the N.Z. Greens would have to start acting like the Australian Greens, who surprised everybody by loudly threatening to sink the A.L.P. housing legislation entirely if their demands were not met.

    The N.Z. Greens housing policy is a pale imitation of what Adam Bandt came up with. They left out the scheme to lower mortgage repayments, the ban on no-cause evictions, and they’re no longer talking about a rent freeze. They are also only promising to build enough new homes to cover the state housing waiting list, which will not be enough — no overall surplus means no falling prices, and both major parties want mass imports of cheap foreign labour (i.e. they’ll be straight back to a shortage again).

    They then added in the black nationalist demand for blacks-only housing — which would reverse housing desegregation efforts even further, and actually perpetuate the resurgent slum ghettos that had previously been abolished.

  2. The party of Capital.

    The cartoon in Yesterday’s Herald July 7, 2023, is a must see. Drawn by Rod Emmerson, the cartoon depicts Grant Robertson sitting at the bottom of an oubliette with his back turned to the stairwell leading out of it.

    Robertson is lamenting “If only there was an obvious way out of this hole”.

    Emmerson sums up in one sketch, how Labour is alienating their support base, and why Te Pati Maori will never get their chance to influence government policy.

    P.S. Unfortunately I can’t provide you the link to this powerful cartoon because it is behind a pay wall.

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