Labour and Capital Gains Tax – Is it a surrender if you fail to fight?
None of Labour’s arguments to explain their failure to deliver a Capital Gains Tax stack up.
New Zealand Politics
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ANZAC Day 2019 – searching for the meaningless in horror
For a juvenile culture and immature country like NZ, attempting to comprehend the magnitude of our slaughter; the contemptible way Māori were treated on returning from war; the lack of support services for those mentally scarred; the sacrifice of pacifists and the pointless murder of our own brutal invasions is more akin to unblinking sheep nervously stepping into the Lourve Museum to study contemporary Art.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Terrorism is best fought Internationally
I may well be time for our policy makers involved in strategic planning for the best security possible for New Zealand, to consider sending some of our people to complete courses in Russia – rather than send then to FBI courses and end up with raids on Dot Com being perpetrated on behalf of a foreign power.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The complete take down of NZ Labour & No Matthew I have not been ‘sleeping’ or ‘deliberately misleading’
Yesterday Matthew Craig challenged on Facebook a sentence in my last blog in which I stated the current Labour led coalition ‘has no intention whatsoever of doing anything significant to reduce the gap between haves and the have nots’ . He then offered “ an incomplete list of just some of the things this Labour led coalition has achieved/is working on, in order to ‘reduce the gaps’, and help make this country a better and fairer place to live in”
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Holding the government to account
Someone on 5% Preferred Prime Minister has a credibility issue.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Children visiting loved ones in prison
In my role as the Easter bunny, I was in Christchurch Men’s and Women’s prisons (not at quite the same time) giving out Easter Eggs over the weekend.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – The Crusades have not ended!
George Orwell said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Let’s be clear about what the Labour Coalition is refusing to do.
So let’s be absolutely clear – this Labour led coalition has no intention whatsoever of doing anything significant to reduce the gap between the haves and the have nots in our country which begs the question..
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Grant Robertson’s terrifying CGT admission & why blaming MMP doesn’t work
This was short sighted and desperate, it wasn’t an MMP checkmate by wily old Winston, wily old Winston could barely keep his eyes open, this was a poorly thought out knee-jerk that was kicked repeatedly into touch with no plan beyond kicking it into touch.
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Earth Day 2019 – Revolution or Funeral
The denial of climate change and the quack science used to peddle it must be eradicated with the same zealotry we amputate cancer. Our politicians are too frightened of the corporate vested interests that profit from pollution so those politicians need replacing.