Q+A Review: Jack Tame’s wild Kiri Allan interview

Excellent interview between Jack Tame and Kiri Allan.

She has been burnt in previous interviews where her commentary was perceived as far more militant than she intended so she was very guarded while Jack had a thousand gotchas to throw at her.

It was a wild interview where Jack pushed her every step of the way, and she was remarkable in holding her line.

Labour have finally acknowledged they have to fill the airwaves with their best articulators of Labour Policy, so we have a surge in their media availability.

Jack pushes her hard on the possibility of moving the rape laws from no means no to affirmative consent and if there was research on how many more men that will imprison.

The Minister affirms there is research and consideration but it won’t be part of any current implementation – (That will be a political nuclear bomb when it starts as the ramifications of that are appreciated).

She is pushed on the 20% decrease in prison populations and the 30% increase in violent crime. Jack claims the decrease in prison population has driven the crime rate, but the vast majority of that prison population decrease are prisoners being sentenced to Home Detention, the explosion in crime is a very natural response to a culture still reeling from covid.

She is pushed on the weak booze law reforms and the nonsense of current cannabis laws. You can clearly see she wants change there but has been told they are not on the table by the Labour Leadership and she is earning her wings in joining that leadership team.

The Hate Speech fiasco is on, please God, come on Kiri. Kick it touch, kick it touch.

Kick it to touch.

She admits the backlash was a lot more extreme than she thought while stepping up for the communities she represents who feel bullied.

There is an actual discussion on Free Speech that is rational and well reasoned. This is great – finally!

This nonsense smear on her from the Foon donation is a disgrace.

The issue isn’t $1500 he donated to her or the $1000 she donated to National, the issue is why the Billionaire class are funding the hard right…

…she is very honest about the donation, and attempting to suggest she could be bought for $1500 is a disgraceful smear on her mana.

For the first time ever, I’m genuinely worried about war in the Pacific because what was decided this weekend between Australia and NZ only ever happens when a far larger interest enters the room.

Australia’s love affair with bashing Kiwis is as deeply rooted as a burning cross. To finally agree to 400 000 New Zealanders being able to gain citizenship doesn’t happen for shits and giggles, to give up a racist political cudgel as popular as bashing Kiwis means something far larger is coming.

You can feel the gravity of America in all this.

Albanese is a powerful new voice for change and he just found 400 000 new voters.

Labour traditionally have done very well in the overseas vote, but the bitterness over the MIQ process has dented those voters. 400 000 duel citizens in Australia however have just found a reason to vote for NZ Labour in gratitude.

The joy of the new citizenship rules means for the first time NZ will be forced to offer free education for Nurses and Drs and Teachers plus accomodation benefits and better essential service worker perks  because if we don’t they will all move to Australia! We will be forced to be active in protecting and nurturing these skill sets!

FINALLY!

Great to see Dame King. She is one of NZs great politicians. It is a real loss that she is standing down from her diplomatic role in Australia, NZ must find her a role, she is a legend and too good to allow to go to waste.

Stumbling Tax Wonk from the Ministry of Tax Wonks on trying to explain why the mega wealthy should be loved and cherished.

There are 14 Billionaires in NZ, and 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals, let’s start with them, then move onto the Banks, then the Property Speculators, the Climate Change polluters and big industry.

There’s no point making workers pay more to rebuild our resilience, tax the rich!

-Sugar Tax

-Inheritance Tax

-Wealth Tax

-Financial Transactions Tax

-New top tax rate on people earning over $300 000 per year.

-Capital Gains Tax

-Windfall profit taxes

-First $10 000 tax free

The Reserve Bank Governor is clearly telling us to raise taxes to pay for the rebuild, if Chippy’s Bread and Butter politics is to mean anything, he has to tax the rich to pay for the rebuild.

Important story on the current state of the NZ military.

I believe that NZ needs to have an urgent discussion on the geopolitical machinations occurring because the drum beat for war is getting louder.

We must not get drawn into the vortex of another American war.

We must not be tied economically to China.

We must seriously consider the Māori Party Neutrality stand while dramatically increasing our GDP military spend to 5%.

NZ is friend to all, enemy to none. We are a nation that believes in peace and we should use all the diplomacy at our disposal to work for peace, but we can no longer pretend that our region is benign and we need to protect our realm from Antartica to the Cook Islands, and Niue.

We have watched with horror as America lied about the Gulf of Tonkin and Weapons of Mass Destruction to start wars and I’m damned if I’ll watch another generation of kids go feed another American war, but equally I don’t want China’s authoritarian regime having any control over us either.

Neutrality, as envisioned by the Māori Party this election, is the honourable position to take, but it requires a serious increase in military spending.

Above all we must have an independent foreign policy and we need focus on these issues now because corporate interests who trade in the weapons of violence want conflict in the Pacific.

NZ needs to consider a year long Gap year service program.

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