So Labour’s ‘transformation’ equates to spending billions on bloody roads???
Building a better motorway bridge for the homeless to sleep under isn’t much of a vision.
New Zealand Politics
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TWITTER WATCH: National’s social media misinformation campaign a new dark dawn for NZ Politics
The structural reality of how National intend to make this the most negative election ever by playing directly to that negativity must be consistently pointed out and explained to our whanau so that they don’t get scammed into voting hatefully in 2020.
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Dave Macpherson: It will take more than $s to fix our broken mental health system
Since the Government’s budget announcement of a large spending increase in the mental health area, it has followed up with specific initiatives, including the recent establishment of the new Suicide Prevention Office, and increased spending on Maori & Pacific suicide prevention and school counselling and mental health support.
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Grant Robertson Spends Up Large – On The Establishment!
I think it’s safe to say that after Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s announcement of the Government’s proposed infrastructure spend-up, the New Zealand Establishment will be plotting nothing more dangerous that inviting the Minister to celebratory end-of-year drinks.
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What To Make Of National MP Parmjeet Parmar’s Gandhi Statue Proposition
Backbench Opposition MPs are occasionally curious creatures, as are social media advert-targeting algorithms. Due, no doubt, to an ongoing quirk of the latter, I found myself presented with a sponsored post from National’s List MP based on Mt Roskill, Parmjeet Parmar, calling for the enshrinement of a Gandhi statue here in Auckland to coincide with the latter figure’s 150th birthday and asking me to sign a petition in support of same.
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Delusional And Irrational: The Rise Of Paranoid Politics
WHAT IF EVERYTHING we currently think about politics in New Zealand is wrong?
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Waatea News Column: Why is the Politics of Kindness failing our poorest children?
The 2019 child poverty monitor report makes for grim reading…
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Labour almost as good as National at eroding our civil rights
If we were handing out medals for eroding human rights in NZ, National by far are the gold medalists.
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What the measles epidemic, Australian bush fires and floods from the weekend storm tell us about NZ in a dangerously warming planet
I don’t think NZers ‘get’ how big the climate crisis really is. How enormous the impact of endlessly pumping pollution…
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Adrian Orr is preparing NZ for the next great economic depression – will Australian Capitalism, neoliberal NZ quislings & Labour’s intellectual cowardice allow him?
What might save Labour from Grant Robertson’s intellectual caution is the type of event Orr is desperately attempting to insulate NZs economy from.