The lesson from the latest Oranga Tamariki report
14 armed police officers were used to remove a five-month-old Māori baby?!?
New Zealand Politics
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BREXIT is the nationalist rejection to neoliberal free markets exploited by UK Billionaires
Newsroom NZ recently claimed social media’s ability to turn elections was overblown because research shows it can’t persuade people who have already made up their minds. What such analysis utterly misconstrues is that the Right aren’t using social media to persuade anyone, it is using it to find older white male voters who don’t vote!
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Judith’s new book, National’s misleading adverts and how the SFO case damages National’s leadership
Judith has a new tell all book coming out and rumour has it that the title is ‘Stabbing Simon in the face’.
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Omnicide – Australia is the example of a political system too gridlocked to adapt to climate crisis, will NZ fail as well?
On a rapidly warming planet, NZ will increasingly be the life boat for Earth and the tyranny of our distance will become our blessing.
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Jacinda makes second strategic blunder of Election 2020 by ruling out using MMP strategically
Simon Bridges kicked things off yesterday by making the first strategic blunder of the 2020 election by going waaaaaaay too early in ruling NZ First out.
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How we can get the $100 billion we need to spend on infrastructure at no extra cost
The Economic commentator Bernard Hickey made an important point about the proposed infrastructure investment. It is way too small to make much impact on the years of neglect.
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The housing crisis intensifies……government response hopelessly inadequate….”empty homes tax” is part of the answer
The housing crisis drags on for tenants and families on low incomes while the government looks the other way.
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TV REVIEW: Breakfast TVNZ – Jacinda flushes away election & defends right wing experiment in welfare
Jacinda was on TVNZ Breakfast this morning and astonishingly stated that she wouldn’t consider doing an electorate deal with NZ First and the Greens.
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What if you were a pig?
When the smoke from the Australian bushfires turned the sky yellow at the beginning of the year, it felt like shit got real. Armageddon was upon us.
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Mike Moore 1949-2020: Working class battler to neoliberal architect
One of the original members of the Fish n Chip Brigade that built the neoliberal NZ we know today has passed.