GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – The fight for the Waitemata waterfront
The news of another waterfront stadium, this one to be sunk in the harbour is the latest in a long list of controversial waterfront developments proposed or under way.
New Zealand Politics
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Nightmare On Bolsonaro Street
PRESIDENT-ELECT JAIR BOLSONARO and Halloween are made for each other. If you’re attempting to evoke feelings of fear and dread, then the next President of Brazil is indisputably the right man for the job. For sheer terror, however, nothing beats contemplating the people whose votes propelled him into office.
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The countdown till December 13th begins – will Simon Bridges still be Leader on the 14th?
This is the worst outcome for National, all that will consume the media between now and the 13th of December is what JLR will say in Parliament under Parliamentary Privilege.
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Surprise, surprise – Kiwibuild is for the children of the white middle classes
Kiwibuild is like the Labour party – it’s for the children of the white middle classes. That’s fine and dandy, but let’s dump the illusion that this is helping the poor and until the new Government do something meaningful on state houses (building 1000 state houses per year isn’t meaningful), they should be savaged ruthlessly and relentlessly.
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Do we really have to spell it out about Karel Sroubek gaining residency? Really?
Oh come on folks, this is petty even for the most angry sensible sentencing trust lynch mob, There should be no surprise or tantrums thrown about Karel Sroubek gaining residency.
Come on…
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The Long-Term Green Advantage of Uncommon Sense
THE MAINSTREAM NEWS media’s constant and effusive praise for Green co-leader, James Shaw, draws into sharp focus the party’s fundamental contradiction. That the supra-political character of the present planetary crisis must doom to failure any attempt to present the Greens as just-another-political-party. Undaunted, Shaw exploits with considerable skill the urgent need of the status-quo’s defenders’ to keep “common-sense solutions” in play. Were in not so tragic, this acquiescence to the short-termism that defines both the intractability of climate change, and of modern politics, would be hugely and comically ironic.
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Open Letter to the National Party – about this whole abortion thing
Dear National Party of NZ.
How’s things?
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REVENGE OF THE ELITES: An analysis of the Wentworth Sydney by-election result
It was a slaughter in the end. The Wentworth Sydney by-election was expected to be a close race between Dave Sharma (Liberals) and Kerryn Phelps (independent). Malcolm Turnbull’s ejection as Prime Minister on August 24 and his subsequent departure from federal politics had riled local voters
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Labour finally establish a weapon to beat neoliberal state services with
One of the major problems of the new Government has been trying to force a right wing neoliberal state services sector into adopting more progressive ideas, TDB is thrilled to hear that Chippie is picking up another TDB suggestion by establishing a whistle blower hotline, agency and powers to protect them as a weapon to beat the neoliberal state services with…
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – More rat shit in prison food
I’m determined to ensure all prison kitchens are safe for their 10,000 inmate “clients”, but also for the many officers, officials and outside gatherings that are occasionally served food prepared in the kitchens.