Auckland Mayoralty Update: Some good news but then bad news about early voting
Here’s what Auckland Mayoralty returns look like compared with last 3 elections:
New Zealand Politics
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Forget Shane Jones threatening Forestry – can we discuss NZ First’s promotion of death as social policy?
So NZ First’s position is that they won’t support drug testing stations at festivals because that “absolves all of those young people from taking personal responsibility for their decisions”… because death is a totally legitimate ‘I told you so’ lesson for young people right?
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Keeping The Hope Of “Delivery” – And “Jacinda” – Alive.
AS THE “YEAR OF DELIVERY” draws to its end, what have Jacinda Ardern and her colleagues delivered us? Well, they have not delivered 100,000 affordable houses. Nor have they brought Climate Change to a shuddering halt. Child poverty has not been ended. Our rivers and streams remain unswimmable. New Zealand’s farmers have yet to assume a measure of responsibility commensurate with their contribution to anthropogenic global warming. The number of ticks on Jacinda’s “To Do List” is far from impressive.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Is the UK primed for civil war?
This week’s Supreme Court decision in the UK reached back much further than the second world war into British common law to find that Boris Johnson illegally prorogued parliament. From a legal perspective, it was an elegant and comprehensive decision that invoked the shadows of much older law.
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National’s shameless pandering to the gun nut lobby
National’s own suggestion to give Police more powers to search Gang Member cars and houses for guns seems bizarre seeing as the white supremacist terrorist who butchered and murdered 101 people wasn’t a member of Black Power or the Mongrel Mob.
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Mallard vs Bridges: Why National will die in a ditch for their social media propaganda
Oh for the love of God! This isn’t a free speech issue! National passed the rules on not using Parliamentary footage for attack adverts when they were last in power, now they are the Opposition suddenly they want to break the very rules they made?
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The Hui Review: Oh come on – does ANYONE believe Simon Bridges would’ve raised climate change with Donald Trump? Really?
I suspect Bridges was expecting a far less critical interview and wasn’t prepped for it because his answer becomes a train wreck.
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MEDIA WATCH: Dear NZ Media – barely 2 weeks ago you were accusing the PM of covering up a sex crime
No wonder the term ‘fake news’ resonates with the public so easily.
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Temporary visa scam to continue migrant worker exploitation
The government has promised to continue allowing New Zealand bosses to employ a huge number of workers on temporary visas with no right to change employer and little chance of transitioning to permanent residency.
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This Government has utterly failed beneficiaries
…punishing poor people for being poor seems like the sort of social policy Mordor implements.