Every MP who votes for Euthanasia will be branded suicide enablers
Every MP who votes for this will be branded a suicide enabler and any time they attempt to speak on any social issue they should have their vote rammed down their throats.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What Would Jesus Say?
Last week, as you probably heard, the historic cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris unfortunately caught fire.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – MMP is to blame – not Jacinda
My theory is that Jacinda was correct to blame MMP, if blame must be placed anywhere.
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Farewell and Thanks to a Rangatira
Last Thursday at Mangamuka we buried Rua Rakena, a quiet revolutionary who had an extraordinary, but largely unsung, influence on Maori and Tiriti politics from the 1960s to the 1990s
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Grasping the chance to do it better.
While CGT might have been a one-way ticket to oblivion for this government, the original problems that the Minister of Finance asked the TWG 2019 to address have not gone away. These are housing unaffordability and increased inequality, both of which are highly damaging to New Zealand’s future stability and prosperity.
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There is a lot of noise but little light being shown on the debate over a capital gains tax (CGT)
What the middle-class liberals who dominate the leadership in the Green and Labour Parties don’t have any recognition of is that working people in New Zealand are radically overtaxed and deeply resent that. This is especially true when considered in relation to the benefits we are able to access through the public health, education, housing systems.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Capital gains are the opioids of dying capitalism
The debate about the CGT is in full flow but it’s mainly hot air that ignores where capital gains come from in the first place.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The CGT betrayal and when the next revolution should begin
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The CGT betrayal and when the next revolution should begin
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If you think that the NZ Green Party (who are just as wedded to neoliberalism as Labour is) are your new political home, you are delusional
The truth that the NZ Left have to confront is that both Labour and the Greens don’t have the intellectual ability to counter neoliberal economics.
The question then becomes, what will the Left we do about that? Will we continue to vote for parties who pay lip service or look to other political vehicles?
Those questions are now being asked.
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Waikato DHB Board investigates itself over Code of Conduct complaint against Board Chair & CEO
The parents of Nicky Stevens, who died in 2015 while in Waikato DHB’s care, have stated that the DHB response…