The problem with Jacinda continued…
Back in early 2016 I wrote a blog called “The problem with Jacinda…” at the time she was the Labour candidate for Mt Albert in the byelection created by the resignation of David Shearer.
New Zealand Politics
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The interment of the WEAG report is complete.
The government’s undermining of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (WEAG) report: Whakamana Tangata has been masterful. WEAG was set up in May 2018 and reported finally in February 2019. After sitting on the report for months, the government manoeuvred the burying of it in the launch in May, with a fanfare of three miniscule crumbs to be implemented in 2020.
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Waatea News Column: The 5 big political issues for Maori in 2019
2019 was a difficult year politically with the promise of much but the delivery of little.
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Apocalypse 2020
As I look ahead to the future, visibility is poor. The haze of Australian bush fires and the blather of…
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Dr Liz Gordon: Has there ever been a year like it (since the 1930s anyway)?
What a way to end the extraordinary year of 2019, with the report that Sir Ron Brierley, the corporate raider, greed is good, mate of Roger Douglas, who shot to fame as a role model at the very beginning of the neo-liberal capture of Aotearoa in the 1980s, has been arrested with a laptop full of child abuse images on his way to Fiji, and has freely admitted liking young Thai girls.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – Group of 10 former Auckland civic leaders slam proposed “expropriation” of publicly-owned port of Auckland
A group of former Auckland civic leaders* has expressed alarm and dismay at the proposed plan to “move” Auckland’s port to Whangarei.
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Dear Everyone, 66-year-old Canterbury bricklayer Colin Wilson has every right to his activism – don’t fall for the trap
…comparing your book being turned around to witch burnings, segregated voting rights and domestic violence manages to make Trump sound modest and Prince Andrew look well grounded.
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MEDIA WATCH: Can a Spinoff conspiracy destroy Jacinda Ardern in 2020 and Andrea Vance’s ‘apology’ has to be read to be believed
TRIGGER WARNING: If you are a sensitive soul, you should pass this story by. But if you like your violence visceral, then strap in because I’m about to give The Spinoff a good old fashioned hands tied behind their back pistol whipping.
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Reconnecting Jacinda With Her Inner Swashbuckler.
HOW DID 2019 END on such a jarring note of neoliberal bi-partisanship? With the Coalition and the Opposition united in their backing for a lavish spend-up on roads, roads, and more roads?
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Govt roadside drug testing shock: the proposed rules are actually pretty good!
The Government has announced a new approach to roadside drug testing. It seems like a good compromise, and evidence based.