Yardley & Hosking: The 2 mikes on poor people & wealth creation
We have one Mike who wants to keep propping up failed economic models and another Mike who wants to keep propping up failed welfare policy.
New Zealand Politics
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A Moral Victory: The Supreme Court Rescues Our Judiciary From Itself
THE SUPREME COURT has finally declared the deal struck between the Department of Labour and Pike River boss, Peter Whittall, “unlawful”. A moral victory for Sonja Rockhouse and Anna Osborne, certainly, but hardly a victory for the New Zealand justice system.
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Is Winston changing tack?
The Israel Institute of New Zealand, in an article entitled Post Election outlook for New Zealand’s relationship with Israel, noted with pleasure that Winston Peters was now in the position of ‘king maker’.
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Elites strike new Government with fear of recession, Liam Dann’s prozac and the PSA is grumpy with new Tax Group
Michael Cullen’s appointment on the tax working group has the PSA screaming, but it misses why he’s been appointed.
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$50 per week won’t solve student debt blackhole
Labour should be embarrassed by this meaningless policy.
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Communist In All But Name! Is Jacinda About to Oversee the Second Peaceful Transition to Kiwi Socialism?
For my money, that’s the most heart-warming endorsement of our new Labour Prime Minister that I have read to date. If Jacinda, with just two words, can shake the very foundations of Wall Street, then it’s possible that a “return to the bad old days of the 70s” may turn out to be something more than this old socialist’s pipe dream.
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Is it time to end big Dairy in New Zealand?
…should we start asking is it time to end big Dairy in NZ?
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Labour poach Vernon Small & Alex Tarrant as Press Secretaries
At a time when their communications strategies are desperately falling apart, picking up two of the heavyweights of the Journalist world is a bloody smart move.
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In defence of Jack Tame: Why that interview best sums up threat to new Government
You can’t waltz up to the VMAs and bathe in all the social media adulation of a Jacinda and Lorde fan girl geek out hug gif without also managing the chaotic backstage green room dynamics. Why the fuck was the Prime Minister of NZ in an unguarded situation like that in the first place where she ended up being contradicted by Radio Live and the fucking Spinoff blog for fucks sakes?
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Building an “Active Democracy” through “Constructive Engagement”. Chris Trotter responds to John Minto.
In spite of the fact that barely thirty days have passed since Winston Peters anointed Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand’s first progressive prime minister in nine years, John is ready to call the Left onto the streets in protest at her government’s refusal to walk away from the CPTPP.