When the NZ State is spying on earthquake victims – when do you as citizens finally stand up?
This is the organisation that our State Agencies are hiring to do dirty work against our own people?
New Zealand Politics
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Bridges and Adams trapped in the Ghetto of the Comfortable Third
Anyone seized with the notion that the Nats new leadership team might actually make a serious effort to face up to the enormous challenges confronting New Zealand and the world should now un-seize themselves. Adams has made it very clear that National will be governing, as it has always done, for the only New Zealanders who have ever counted for anything in their political universe – farmers and businessmen.
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Let’s be clear – when Labour & NZ First sign the TPPA this week – it will be as cheap traitors for less than 30 pieces of silver
This deal is for those corporate interests who wish to exploit the pristine base products we produce, it is not about us protecting our future.
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Oh surprise, surprise Steven Joyce suddenly resigns
…what do the Press Gallery Political Editors need to start doing some, you know, journalism?
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Out of the Goodness of the Employers’ Big, Generous Hearts
To anyone not already sold on neoliberalism, the answers to those questions are blindingly obvious. Gouwland’s indignation is, however, a useful pointer to just how much reliance employers now place on the agencies of the state to defend the “reforms” of the 1980s and 90s from any attempt to roll them back.
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GUEST BLOG: Oliver Hailes – Never again! Sign our TPPA petition to change the process
The concerned Kiwis who marched in the streets of Auckland against the last TPPA signing ceremony have been caught off guard by the Government’s sudden U-turn. But this week, as Trade Minister David Parker heads to Chile to sign his name, we’ll be handing over a parliamentary petition with thousands of signatures calling for a democratic overhaul of how we negotiate trade, investment and economic integration agreements.
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Colin Craig vs Jordan Williams Court of Appeal decision
…as a witness in this case, it was apparent to me that the Judy didn’t seem to have any comprehension whatsoever of defamation law.
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What happened at the NBR with Matthew Hooton?
Whatever you think of Hooton, as a columnist he has the right to criticise and critique politicians and as long as he doesn’t defame that politician by lying about them, then his right to be critical of a politician is supposed to be sacrosanct and backed 100% by his Publisher and Editor.
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Dave Macpherson – At Last – we hear from Mental Health Commissioner on Suicides….
Not to be put off by the years-long public debate about this country leading youth suicide statistics from the wrong end, Commissioner Kevin Allan has bravely gone where no-one employed by the previous Government had hitherto dared to tread – he has actually (wait for it…) recommended a 10% reduction in suicides target! That’s correct – not zero, not halving it, not even the mild 20% reduction that the current Health Minister suggested while in opposition – but a nice, fat, round 10%.