Underfunded Nurses, Teachers & Midwives – the National Party legacy
The new Government MUST use this opportunity to bargain with the Unions for better pay and conditions in return for wholesale culture changes in each of those sectors.
New Zealand Politics
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Oh come on everyone – how is it a surprise that Labour/Greens/NZ First had no idea what to do?
Radio NZ have done an interesting story looking at the plethora of reviews, working groups, advisory groups and investigations that the new Government have announced since coming to power…
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Did the National Party use Cambridge Analytica through Thiel’s Palantir in the 2017 election?
In the same week Cambridge Analytica has been busted exploiting Facebook data mining the NZDF is being forced to answer questions about Peter Thiel’s mass surveillance data mining.
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Herald catch NZDF out in war crime lie
Our media have a sorry history of being played like propaganda sock puppets by the NZDF. Here they are with full and undisputed evidence that the NZDF lied again and where is the wall to wall media focus demanding accountability?
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The solution to Police pursuits is arming the Police? Wait, what?
…we need a rational debate about Police pursuit policy that can’t be derailed by ‘respect my authority’ as a response.
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Let’s be honest bout what Key & Obama will talk about while golfing: TPPA & Kim Dotcom
…Key had golf with Obama on January 3rd 2014 and by 19th February 2014 the old boy network of the New Zealand appeals court overruled the 28 June 2012 decision, and declared the search warrants against Kim Dotcom to be valid.
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Green Party Political Polyamory
I for one did not vote Greens for them to hand over fucking 42 parliamentary questions to the fucking National Party.
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On The Greens’ Transition From Voice In The Wilderness To Ventriloquism Through Handing Their Questions To National
Unquestionably the biggest news in politics of the past week – despite several somewhat sensationalized stories that’ve been in circulation recently – was the Green Party announcing a bold move to give the National Party their Primary Questions in Parliament on occasions when the former are not using them.
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Questioning The Greens
If the Greens really were determined to subject the Labour-NZ First Coalition to the scrutiny of the most informed, articulate and progressive members of the House of Representatives, then they would hardly have given away the chance to do exactly that to Parliament’s most ill-informed, inarticulate and reactionary elements. Progressive Kiwis have only to ask themselves: “Who would we rather held this Government to account: Chloe Swarbrick or Mark Mitchell? Golriz Ghahraman or Judith Collins?” – to realise that the justification advanced to them by Green Party co-leader, James Shaw, is pure, unadulterated, bullshit.
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Why Green MPs shouldn’t give their parliamentary questions to National
There are several reasons why it is wrong of the Green caucus to hand over some of their Parliamentary Questions to National.