GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Media silence about police investigation for 103 days
On 17th October 2018 former National MP Jami-Lee Ross emerged from the Victoria Street police station in Wellington after filing a complaint on leader Simon Bridges.
New Zealand Politics
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A tale of two elections
We cannot allow the US empire to create another graveyard of popular hopes for freedom and independence in Venezuela today.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Auckland Mayoralty 2019
If I’m in Auckland, I will have the chance to vote for him.
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What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like – Terence O’Brien: Foreign Policy
The first panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like was on the Big Picture, with an overview on foreign policy, labour and women’s perspectives. This is the exchange on foreign policy issues.
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NZ Joins Breakaway Push for WTO E-Commerce Rules that Protect Google etc from Regulation
Documents I’ve obtained under the Official Information Act, although heavily redacted, show our government really has no idea of the implications.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Jacinda
I really haven’t given a thought to what persons of the political right think of Jacinda Ardern. A story I heard, from my granddaughter of all people, gave me pause.
“[Unnamed relative of Palmerston North] says that Jacinda Ardern only got pregnant to make sure she became Prime Minister”, she said.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Stacey Kirk and the disinterested pursuit of the truth
Journalists should be interested in their pursuit of the truth here – not sweep this stuff aside.
National had successfully told the press to bugger off and talk about something else – like Karel Sroubek for five weeks.
Now Ross was guilty of bringing up the matters they thought they had artfully dodged.
None of this context was covered in Stacey’s article today.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Delusion of Davos
The idea that when world leaders meet in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos to discuss economic issues that the assembled politicians are somehow in charge of the global economy is a delusion.
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Vernon Tava Blue Green fantasy shows how desperate National are becoming
Blue Greens will fail to get any electorate traction at all and I support National wasting energy on this bullshit as it will only eat into National’s voter base without any representation.
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Andrea Vance lances the New Conservative pus of David Moffett
I am hoping that New Zealanders are smarter than this, but I also fear that a cultural backlash to the woke may propel the New Conservatives into a position of power.