Petty, intrusive, destructive and just plain wrong
In a few months’ time the Winter Energy Payment (WEP) will start for beneficiaries and superannuitants. Underpinning this badly-targeted policy are unexamined assumptions about living arrangements.
New Zealand Politics
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MEDIAWATCH: Winston’s Facebook Q&A Scam
To simply choose to bypass actual journalists inquiring about this in favour of chat with Poppa Winston time on the Facebook is not a serious attempt at holding the powerful to account.
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Salvation Army report on Poverty: If only we could respond to the housing crisis, inequality, climate change and child poverty issues with the same speed and decisiveness we can to keep Concert on FM
To get around not having the courage to raise benefits, Labour needs to create ‘The Kiwi Dividend’ which will see the first $10 000 you earn as tax free.
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How frightened is Winston Peters over SFO referral? THIS frightened!
Getting caught out serving two masters is as politically embarrassing as it gets, hence Winston’s need to talk directly to his supporters while bypassing journalists.
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2020 the year of climate crisis recession, the chance for economic Tino rangatiratanga and what most reviews of the last decade missed
It’s time to start thinking about New Zealand as a lifeboat and respecting it as such.
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Soooooo when can NZ start taking the Wuhan virus seriously without being accused of Xenophobia?
The demand to ‘not panic’ should not be greater than the effort to prepare us for a rapidly emerging pandemic!
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Land Sales The Facts
It does cause me some concern however that some people want to shout “Xenophobia” and “dog whistling” whenever I mention China in the context of land sales.
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Wait, what? Simon Bridges now says he could work with NZ First? National is all over the place
Clearly the backlash amongst his own Caucus has forced him to reconsider, but this is terrible messaging by Simon.
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The ugly Bob Jones defamation case a serious threat to free speech
…how can Bob Jones possibly sue for defamation when he no longer has a reputation to defame? Defamation law asks if a reasonable person would think less of the person being defamed. Seeing as Bob is a vicious, nasty, suicide-goading-then-bragging-about-it-racebaiting arsehole, nothing Renae Maihi said could lower Bob in the eyes of a reasonable person any more than Bob’s own words and ugly behaviour.
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The silence of the lambs – How did National get away with a failed bribe?
When you remind yourself just how corrupt the National Party in power were, and then look at the so called ‘corruption’ of this current Government whose main criticism is that Jacinda is too popular overseas and hasn’t managed to repair all the damage National caused over a decade, you really appreciate the double standards we as voters accept in NZ.