Jamie Lee Ross Battleship: He’s hit National hard
If the cloud of SFO investigation hangs over a leader who is tanking in the polls, it is only a matter of time before a nervous National Party turn to the Winter Queen of Doom, Judith Collins.
New Zealand Politics
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Geoff Simmons – Davidson is Wrong: Capital Gains Tax Will Hurt the Poor
Marama Davidson has come out claiming that a Capital Gains Tax should be just the start of tax system reform that favours the poor. The trouble is that a Capital Gains Tax excluding the family home actually helps the middle class. It doesn’t help the poor, and will probably even hurt them.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Climbing Everest: gender equality
Ever since Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the ‘Vindication of the Rights of Women’ in 1793, there has been a women’s movement in the English -speaking world. Mary, you will remember, was famous for arguing that women’s apparent inferiority to men stemmed from their lack of education, not their nature. She argued for a social order founded on reason, not gender.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Thousands protest water bottling in Christchurch
If you rely on mainstream media for your news then you may well have missed the fact that an estimated 5000 Canterbury folk attended a protest march in Christchurch last Saturday against the granting of more water extraction rights to the Chinese owned firm Cloud Ocean Water Ltd
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Citizens shall be seen but not heard.
Anyone who has attended a Parliamentary Select Committee hearing in recent years will have sensed there is something rotten in the state of our democracy.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Trial by media
Is trial by media in the court of public opinion the new low standard we all should adopt as our sole source of conviction about the guilt or innocence of anyone accused of a crime?
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Why Isn’t JA Channelling AOC?
WHY ISN’T JACINDA ARDERN channelling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)? This is not a frivolous question. Labour found itself swept into a winning position at the end of 2017 almost entirely on the strength of Jacinda’s extraordinary appeal – especially to voters under 40.
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Government needs to act on prevalent toxic cocktail
The New Zealand Government has been criticised for delays in responding to the issue despite growing international concern. Here, some PFAS chemicals were banned in fire-fighting foam in 2006 but they weren’t banned in other products until 2011. The NZ Defence Force was in contact with the Australian Air Force about groundwater contamination here, a year before they told the New Zealand public.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Simon says…
Simon Bridges has a new mantra – that the recently released tax review is “ an assault on the Kiwi way of life.” It’s a piece of political rhetoric that piles one myth on top of another to avoid reality.
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Waatea News Column – The new stolen generation of Māori children
Where is the outcry over this ramping up of seizing children and what extra resource has been put in place to protect those children once they have been taken?