MUST READ: Dobbing in is a frightful blot on the face of a failed welfare system
The latest statistics on dobbing in highlighted by Radio NZ this week should send a shudder down the spines of every thinking person in New Zealand.
New Zealand Politics
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MUST READ: The case against the hollowness of Jacinda’s Labour – we need more than words!
Are we so relieved that this government isn’t National-led that we will settle for less than what might have been? Now that with relief we finally have a Labour-led Government, have we lost a sense of inquiry and our ear for irony? Is it no longer acceptable to expect better, more, a real move away from the austerity and hypocrisy of the past nine years. How long should we wait and what compromises are we prepared to accept in the hope of eventual real change?
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Simon Bridges can’t make his mind up about Trump
Perhaps Simon needs to get a new press secretary?
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CTO-gate – Smoke Gets In Our Eyes
THE QUESTION IS, can they pull it off? Can the National Party do to Jacinda Ardern what Labour tried, but failed, to do to John Key: destroy their opponents’ most powerful political asset? The other question is: If this is National’s intention, then how deep does the conspiracy go?
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Evidence that Methcon advised Housing NZ on their deeply flawed meth hysteria
…Housing NZ are desperately trying to hide how much influence Methcon had over their policy, with OIAs lodged, it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out, Phil Twyford should front foot this before it becomes made public.
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Friends don’t let friends hate babies – Why Jacinda & Neve’s appearance at the UN trumps LOTR & Lange’s ‘Uranium on your breath’ as our identity
Jacinda at the UN with her infant baby Neve and her stay at home partner Clarke supporting her has done as much to build our image and lead on the global stage as much as universal suffrage, the 40 hour working week and nuclear free has done.
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John Tamihere’s damning evidence against Goff’s vacant social housing programme
John Tamihere appeared before Council this morning to attack Goff’s vacant social housing programme, here is the evidence that was presented.
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UPDATE: Hating on Meka, former Green Party trigger free safe spacers & a media landscape where accusation is the new evidential threshold
When Jacinda refused to take the word of her Māori Minister over that of a trigger free safe space millennial staffer, it was a signal like any other that Māori are never given the benefit of the doubt.
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Jacinda-Handley vs Key-Fletcher
The manner in which the NZ mainstream media have attempted to whip the Jacinda-Handley interaction into a ‘jobs for the boys’ style scandal is embarrassing when you compare it to the previous relationship of Key and his appointment of his school mate Ian Fletcher to the GCSB.
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Pulling Down The Shades (Satire)
“SHALL WE MAKE A START?”, said the man from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, ostentatiously rearranging the pile of documents stacked in front of him and glancing up sharply at the five other participants seated around the polished Rimu table. The meeting-room windows overlooked the parliamentary complex below. A howling Wellington southerly sent raindrops clattering, bullet-like, against the glass.