Latest Cannabis Poll shows a debate slipping away and Hosking goes full Fox News on Chloe Swarbrick
If you pick a fight with a dirty fighter, you don’t turn up to box Queensberry Rules.
New Zealand Politics
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You can’t declare a climate crisis without declaring a crisis of neoliberal capitalism
A climate crisis has been announced at Auckland Council and I suppose that’s good.
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Yay! Mission Accomplished! We won in Iraq and Afghanistan!
We can’t evaluate our role in this war crime of an invasion because we are too close to it and don’t want to sully the engagement, but history will judge us as merely a poodle of deeply flawed US foreign policy, the involvement of which made our soldiers commit war crimes.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Jesus was a Leftie
The assumption that to hold Christian values is to be a conservative is an absolute nonsense.
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Chris Trotter visits Fortress Aotearoa and the $20b military spend up
For too long we have allowed corporate interests and political spinelessness to squander time that could have been spent finding solutions. The time is over. We only have decades now.
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Cock-up or Conspiracy? If GCSB told Government on Tuesday night Treasury hack was false, why was Makhlouf allowed to front Breakfast news on Wednesday morning?
So the timeline over the Treasury hack/leak has been clarified. But there’s still an enormous question hanging over all this.
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Survey reveals costs of living a crisis for working people
What this survey has underscored is that the big majority of working people are struggling to survive against the relentless pressure of rising housing, energy and other basic costs.
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Opinion Polling In 2019: More Art Than Science?
Is it possible that opinion polling, like black-and-white television, was something peculiar to a particular historical era? To a time when everybody had a landline telephone; read the same newspapers; watched the same shows, at the same time, on television; and were limited to a choice between two very large and broad-based political parties?
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Latest budget hack/leak revelations demand answers & the hypocrisy of both the NZ Left & NZ Right
The tribalism isn’t new, the hypocrisy isn’t either (we saw it play out with the free speech debate last year between Chelsea Manning & Southern & Moluneux) but what is illuminating is the depth with which the entrenchment has become.
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Dr Liz Gordon: The prisons paper
The importance of the report was not really in the general recommendations for improvement in the system. The most crucial element was the detailed articulation of how Māori have increasingly become an imprisoned society, with one in five Māori males spending time in prison in their lives.