The 4 reasons why KiwiBuild is an enormous failure
So, how many Government Ministers does it take to build 1000 KiwiBuild Houses?
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – A Progessive Economics Lesson from 2000 years ago
When Julius Caesar returned to Rome in September of 45 BC (having conquered Gaul) he found the city streets crowded with homeless people.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Audrey approves of party unity over skills alignment
It mostly looks like serving politic party unity over what is good for New Zealand and over who is really best for the job.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Antics by tourists & media shouldn’t undermine us as good hosts
I think we’ve all been pretty disgusted by the antics of a group of crass tourists but it’s important to keep perspective.
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If Paula Bennett is National’s answer to the cannabis issue, what the hell was the question?
By selecting Paula Bennett as their spokesperson on cannabis, National have clearly singled they have no wish to seriously debate the issue and are simply going to do everything in their power to degrade it into the prehistoric fear mongering debate of yesteryear.
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Any Word That Threatens Power Is Literally Russian Propaganda
Now here is quite a thing. What is being suggested, is that the primary users of any of these terms are supposedly Russian bots, or other vectors for material that can be ‘safely dismissed’ out of hand as “propaganda”.
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It’s going to take more than Jacinda’s kindness to combat inequality in NZ
While Jacinda is in Britain trying to suggest a free trade deal with NZ will somehow make the cluster fuck of Brexit somehow easier for Theresa May, the latest inequality numbers are out and they show a society horribly distorted by wealth…
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Bridges bashes beneficiaries & reminds us how difficult change will be
The truth is that welfare needs to be dramatically increased, sanctions dumped and moves towards a universal basic income adopted. That is a truth Simon and the National Party will die in a ditch to prevent because they know that if the poor actually benefited positively from welfare, they would start voting rather than recoiling from the process in the way they do now.
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SIS saw Keith Locke as a threat since he was a child – who is the real threat here?
Since when could a man of peace like Keith Locke be considered a threat and continue to be classified as a threat because he speaks out against the unchecked power of the Secret Intelligence Service?
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Is the NZ media coverage of British tourists embarrassing yet?
Beyond the petty joy of the daily schadenfreude of breathless media updates on rudeness, littering, minor theft and children brandishing verbal threats of handing out the bash, there is a deep seated resentment towards tourists by the locals that kept this story alive well beyond it’s initial 15 minutes of Nek Minit infamy.