GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Half Way Mark
Six months ago, I thought Labour would be returned at the next General Election – as a result of National losing. Today, I reckon National will gain the Treasury Benches – as a result of Labour losing.
New Zealand Politics
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Trump & Greenland, Ihumatao hikoi, NIWA report saying 800000 Kiwis at risk from climate change & should submitters to parliament have to disclose their backers?
This week – Trump & Greenland, Ihumatao hikoi, NIWA report saying 800000 Kiwis at risk from climate change & should submitters to parliament have to disclose their backers?
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So is the National Party just a front for Chinese interests?
National’s 9 years in power were built upon selling as much cheap milk powder to China and foreign speculation in the domestic property market, so when National make policy, are they answering to Wellington or Beijing?
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Why Jacinda’s international fame may spell doom for the Greens on election day
One of the interesting dynamics for the 2020 election will be the overseas vote. Typically this always benefits the Greens…
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Dr Liz Gordon: A low-trust nation
What if you believed that people you know, or meet on the streets, or live next door to, are actively plotting to steal your handbag, improve their lives at your expense or occupy your space?
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Save The Ship!
WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you discovered a deranged crew-member deliberately endangering the onboard atmosphere of your spacecraft? Obviously, the delicate mechanism responsible for scrubbing the air and keeping it breathable is absolutely crucial to the survival of the ship’s entire crew. If you allow the saboteur to continue his destruction, everyone on board will die. What is your optimal course of action?
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On John Roughan’s Curious Distaste For Journalistic Privilege
Now, I hesitate in the extreme to term The Herald’s John Roughan a “genius”. Yet every time I read one of his more “ideological” columns, that sort of sentiment seems to spring to mind. A sort of more-cynical/paranoid version of the famed ‘Hanlon’s Razor’ – “never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by stupidity”.
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Yay – National are going to screw Gen Xers on our superannuation!
Yay! The first generation of user pays, Gen X, are now going to have to wait longer to get their…
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What National’s new policy to burn everything to the ground in the worship of the free market really represents
…The Dark Art of politics now is not in the proposal and debate of ideas, it is the promotion of anger as policy which is communicated to potential voters based on the outrage it generates amongst identifiable tribal protagonists.
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Suicide rate hits all time record high and we NEVER ask why because we are cowards
Our under funded social infrastructure, our ‘me first’ consumerism, our 30 years of neoliberal mythology, our disconnection from one another, our untreated pain, our lack of hope from grinding poverty in a first world country, our damaged masculinity, the intergenerational consequences of colonialism, our unspoken rage culture, our inability to express emotion beyond anger – all of this demands questions we don’t want to hear as a society and the shame of suicide continues to hide and smother any healing.