WHY ISN’T JACINDA ARDERN channelling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)? This is not a frivolous question. Labour found itself swept into a winning position at the end of 2017 almost entirely on the strength of Jacinda’s extraordinary appeal – especially to voters under 40.
The New Zealand Government has been criticised for delays in responding to the issue despite growing international concern. Here, some PFAS chemicals were banned in fire-fighting foam in 2006 but they weren’t banned in other products until 2011. The NZ Defence Force was in contact with the Australian Air Force about groundwater contamination here, a year before they told the New Zealand public.
Simon Bridges has a new mantra – that the recently released tax review is “ an assault on the Kiwi way of life.” It’s a piece of political rhetoric that piles one myth on top of another to avoid reality.
Where is the outcry over this ramping up of seizing children and what extra resource has been put in place to protect those children once they have been taken?
Do our Chinese Overlords really have the power to simply stop evidence being heard in a New Zealand select committee? It would appear they do.Labour should hang its head in shame.
Placing Huo in charge of what has turned into the effort to track, monitor, and where possible, to *counter* PRC malfeasance within our polity – is not entirely unakin to asking a mosquito to go off and find the cure for malaria.
This is what Labor need to do, actually argue their values and stand up for them rather than looking like frightened children.
FINALLY! I just head this morning that my case will be heard in front of the Human Rights Review Tribunal…
WHAT IS IT? This weird, emotionally energetic style of politics that promises “transformational” change and then, mysteriously, fails to deliver…
A week or so ago I had the chance to sit and talk with him about some of the ethical questions he faces in his work and how he protects his informants.