In defence of the Greens supporting the Waka jumping legislation
Much has been written in scorn of the Greens somehow losing their moral and ethical compass in supporting the waka jumping legislation.
I am not one of them.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Tony Stevens – A Healthy Workplace
In New Zealand, across the world, the cultural response to mental health in the workplace is troubling. Broadly there’s been a lot of progress tackling the mental health stigma in recent years, but workplaces have not caught up to the important discussions happening in wider society.
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State Housing Action Network says NO to grubby little deals offering “pocket money” to HNZ tenants
With its appalling record in handling the cases reported in the media so far, Housing NZ has a huge bill ahead of it and will want to put this matter to rest asap. On their record of disrespect and callous attitudes to vulnerable tenants we expect HNZ will want to do lots of quick, grubby little deals with affected tenants and offer them “pocket money” compensation.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Oh the happy joys of Government!
These are exciting times, with the smell of much-needed social and economic reforms in the air across many areas of life. At the same time, there are many crocodiles snapping at the heels of the government, and these can be ignored for only so long. The two biggest of these are the 30% government spending threshold that has been self-imposed, and the decision to ruffle powerful business interests with labour sector reform.
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What the 2018 National Party Conference tells us
It’s been an interesting conference and I think some of the surface headlines suggest deeper moves we aren’t picking up on.
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Let’s be brutally honest about Charter Schools and Māori shall we?
Charter Schools always seemed to be a solution searching for a problem.
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How the Woke Left lost the free speech debate and gave Southern and Molyneux a marketing victory
The Woke Left would protest the Vagina Monologues for not being sensitive enough to women without vaginas. It’s like a Spinoff TV dinner party where Simon Wilson has just finished a 5 hour powerpoint presentation on the importance of cycle lanes while you’re stuck between Lizzie Marvelly and Toby Manhire arguing over who hates men most and who can firebomb the Pop-Up Globe fastest. You can’t get to a democratic majority of 51% if people suspect you want to legislate infant girls being gifted anything pink as a hate crime.
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The Neoliberal State Defended By, Of All People, The Left
Herein lies the irony of the ongoing “free speech” controversy. As vociferous opponents of what they characterise as existential threats to traditional Anglo-Saxon culture, Lauren Southern’s and Stefan Molyneux’s looming visit to New Zealand is intended to persuade ordinary Kiwis to look to their own defence against the twin scourges of multiculturalism and identity politics.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – Goff’s ‘Toilet Tax’ – Auckland’s ‘winter of discontent’ set to continue
Just one week after the imposition of the council’s regressive fuel tax and a bunch of new targeted rates, came the disclosure in the NZ Herald that mayor Phil Goff has been planning ways to impose a so-called ‘Toilet Tax’ on the ratepayers of Auckland.
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EXCLUSIVE: Teachers Council drags Cannabis Activist before kangaroo court
Cannabis Activist Jeanette Saxby is facing the exact persecution the gutless and spineless new Government promised wouldn’t happen.