The second panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like was on the Internationalised Economy. This contribution is from Bernard Hickey.
The Alt Right anti UN rallies held today in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch have been a failure.
Remember, this was all started because trans people might be triggered by a Police uniform, Everyone feeling triggered yet?
…if only this Government could protect the users of welfare services as much as they do the staff of these services.
What my colleagues wore is of no interest or importance, what we discussed, debated and talked about as we gear up to deliver on the promises we made the people IS important.
It is good to see Andrea speaking out like a lone voice and to see the media attempting to hold the media to account.
There are events that manage to crystallise a deeper rage and explode in a way few predict. Brash’s manufactured Orewa Speech, the ignorant madness towards the repeal of section 59 and the backlash against Kim Dotcom’s Moment of Truth are all perfect examples of this.
Waitangi 2019 has no obvious fuse to it, but there is a cocktail of things that combined could become very unstable very quickly.
Pundits are missing the real point of the Blue Greens and the New Conservatives and the behind the scenes support both political embryos are getting from National.
How different is today’s Green caucus from the “magnificent seven” Green MPs who entered the House of Representatives so triumphantly in 1999. The New Zealand establishment recognised those Greens for what they were: enemies of the status-quo and certainly not the sort of people this country’s capitalists (not even those in the Labour Party!) felt the least bit comfortable about doing business with. Red-Greens they were called: a label which MPs Sue Bradford and Keith Locke wore with pride. Today, to be branded a Red is simply embarrassing: proof only of outdated thinking.