Just consider the ludicrous things we are being asked to believe in the NZDF war crime white wash
John Key personally signed off on this fiasco, he must be held accountable for it!
New Zealand Politics
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Online voting won’t lift participation but a midweek public holiday might
We need an out of the box idea, not more tinkering at the edges.
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Has the woke Wellington Twitteratti lynch mob called for the cancellation of Professor James Flynn yet? At the least an Action Station petition?
The manner in which middle class identity politics has eclipsed the class based left as the movements dominant ideology has created all sorts of intellectual paradoxes.
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CHOISE model is designed to win the cannabis referendum.
The cannabis referendum campaign has so far been characterised by secrecy, misinformation and lack of a clear plan or known model to discuss. We’ve slipped backwards in some polls. But now there is a model designed to win the referendum. It’s called CHOISE, and it puts opportunity, investment and social equity centre-stage. CHOISE is a version of cannabis legalisation where everyone wins – and that makes the referendum winnable.
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Dear Auckland, after disastrous election turn out – isn’t it time to re-examine the far right experiment that is the SuperCity?
Aucklanders weaponised their apathy because the Supercity democracy is a farce, a grotesque masquerade of democratic representation to trick people into participating so that it has the pretence of legitimacy, and Aucklanders, stuck in their gridlock see how hollow the promises of infrastructure investment really are.
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GUEST BLOG: Christine Dann – Full steam ahead for the Climate Change Corporation?
The day after the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw announced that he had appointed Rod Carr to be Chair of the non-existent* Climate Change Commission, my partner Martin received a begging letter from Shaw asking him to donate $80 today to Shaw’s party to “show that the fight against climate change will be won through people power and not by corporate interests.”
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Losing Labour’s Mills-Tone
MEMO TO THE Prime Minister’s Office: Please tell Stephen Mills to stay off the radio. When the boss of Labour’s polling agency, UMR, comes across on RNZ’s Nine to Noon “Politics” slot (14/10/19) as considerably further to the right than both Kathryn Ryan and Matthew Hooton then, believe me, it’s time to tell your pollster, very politely, to stick to his stats.
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Adani, AIG and the All Blacks
It is neither ethically nor morally acceptable to be on the wrong side of the climate crisis. And New Zealanders see it as socially unacceptable.
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TVNZ POLL: National 47%, Labour 40%, Green 7%, NZ First 4%
It’s a harsh lesson for Labour that allegations in the age of social media trump actual guilt or innocence but as insane as that is, that’s where we are now.
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Politics, Panuku and Paying the Living Wage.
So while the democratic principle of one (adult) person, one vote gives us the semblance of equal access to power, that power and wealth remain inaccessible and unjustly distributed, and no-one’s even talking about deconstructing the CCO system that castrates politicians, dwarfs their income, undermines their accountability to their voters, and short changes the workers on the ground.