GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Kiwiblog gets it wrong
This morning on that great bastion of National Party propaganda, Kiwiblog, David Farrar wrote a very unbalanced and quite frankly sloppy article titled “Willie wrong on almost every stat”.
New Zealand Politics
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Why Pike River matters and why National should be ashamed
We are a modern liberal democracy. Worker rights and the security in knowing your loved ones will return from work at the end of the day are demanded and expected in the modern age. That we as a nation have allowed anti-union political parties to rob us of that security is our fault.
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Wait – what? Vigilante Vegans are to blame? Dear Federated Farmers, make up better lies
It is increasingly becoming apparent that the dairy industry is a sunset industry, with synthetic meat and milk around the corner, the welfare, health and environmental costs of cows are something we simply can no longer justify.
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No! No! No! Renter Rights NOW! Not in 2020 – don’t do a Hobbit Law on this
It’s about time the Government moved on the grotesque imbalance of power between Landlord and Renter with some attempt at righting some wrongs…
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Corrections must be held to account for death
Someone in Corrections should be held accountable & punished for the callous system that allowed this young man’s death in custody in May 2017 & the coverup afterward. That’s what would happen outside prison .
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Labour, New Zealand First and the Pokies
When Helen Clark’s Labour government came to power in 1999 there were 14,000 “non-casino” pokie machines in New Zealand. Four years later there were 25,000.
Labour was asleep at the wheel.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – The problem with Simon Bridges
Simon Bridge’s previous job was as Criminal Prosecutor, Tauranga. He saw his job as getting as many “bad guys” as possible locked up for as long as possible. But he doesn’t know much about what motivates people to reoffend.
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Right Wing Media attacking Jacinda for ‘weakness’ over Meka
These same pundits who are decrying Jacinda based on an allegation would have also had Awanui Black hung drawn and quartered using the same logic.
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Cough-cough – Helen Clark mentions the apocalypse
The simple truth is that the neoliberal lite Labour, middle class identity politics Greens and the Provincial NZ First are incapable of effecting the radical reform needed to adapt our culture, economy and community to the realities of climate change.
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The world according to Judith Collins: Chelsea Manning a killing traitor vs Mark Mitchell blood drenched mercenary hero
Where the hell does Judith get off criticising Manning as a killer when she sits alongside Mark Mitchell a blood drenched Iraq war mercenary who worked in an industry that was riddled with allegations of war crimes?