Dr Liz Gordon: Votes for all
The government announced over the weekend that prisoners with sentences of less than three years would once again be given the right to vote, taken away from them a few years ago by National.
New Zealand Politics
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A Bloody Great Political Story (From A Parallel Universe)
MAX DIDN’T HEAR Malcolm calling his name. The contents of the box file in front of him were dynamite. Exactly what he’d been hoping for from his informant. Names, dates and amounts – everything he needed to bring Peters to book. He had in his hands the sort of story that turns an unknown young journalist into a household name. Eat your heart out Nicky Hager!
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Andrew Geddis leads the NZ First backdown and the real solution to kicking out corporate interests in politics is public funding
Remember when the media breathlessly screamed the PM not only knew about a sexual assault but covered it up and then went really quiet on that insinuation? Yeah, well funny how everyone screamed NZ First had broken the law & now watch all the walking back on that claim.
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Someone please tell me this bloody ‘slide’ pretending to be a budget MacDonalds playground didn’t cost $500k?
For $500 000 I expect a teleportation portal at the bottom of the damned thing that immediately transports me to an Amsterdam coffee shop!
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The Second (and Final?) Crucifixion of Winston Peters.
AND SO IT BEGINS. Once again, the enemies of Winston Peters are manoeuvring to eject him and his NZ First Party from Parliament. Once again the primary vector for their attack is the news media. And, once again, Peters is making it easy for them.
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Can NZ Greens do what Elizabeth Warren has done and step beyond Identity Politics to challenge neoliberalism?
…it is time to restructure the edifice and doing that requires a tax that hits the richest hardest.
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NZ must take responsibility for Samoan measles catastrophe
This isn’t about middle class anti-vaxxer yoga mums and lazy solo mothers, this is an abject failure of public health policy and it is shameful.
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Waatea News Column: Armed Police & Cannabis prohibition – 2 examples of bias against Maori
The stats when it comes to Māori cannabis convictions and shootings by armed Police make for sobering reading.
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MEDIA WATCH: The irony of refugees fleeing to NZ only to become beneficiaries and realising NZers hate beneficiaries
Terrible story in the ODT about the lived experiences of refugees felling to NZ to live as beneficiaries, only to realise that NZers fucking hate beneficiaries…
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So Labour’s response to our neoliberal public service is MORE neoliberalism?
I think I’m done with Labour.
Their response to our neoliberal public service is MORE neoliberalism???