Why the Slater defamation case is so important for democracy in NZ
Do we want secretly funded fake news campaigns to be able to derail serious public health issues in favour of commercial interests? Is that the kind of public policy debate we want?
New Zealand Politics
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Bryan Gould To Labour: This Is No Time For “Conventional Answers”
BIG UPS TO BRYAN GOULD. Perhaps anticipating a disappointing choice from NZ First on 12 October, the former Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University has put the rhetorical boot into Labour’s fiscal and monetary caution.
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Wait, what? Can we just go back to that story about Police spying on prison activists?
This story demands far more media attention than it has been given. Please share it widely on your social media networks.
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Let’s seriously consider David Farrar’s offer to the Greens and laugh and laugh and laugh
…the only scenario where the Greens join the National Party is if Hitler resurrects from the grave with a legion of Nazi zombies and declares an ecological war against the Amazon rain forest.
Sorry David Farrar, That’s the only scenario.
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Evolving a Multi-Party Democracy
Mainstream journalists continue to struggle with multiparty governance. And the amplified rhetoric resulting from their struggle creates doubts amongst the captive consumers of mainstream media. While we wait for the votes to be counted in our 2017 election, now is a good time to review the evolution of party-based government in New Zealand, and to consider the impediments to progress towards mature multiparty democracy.
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GUEST BLOG: Kim Isaac – the reality for single mums & dads
The income breakdown you are looking at is of a single mum with one child living in South Auckland. The landlord notified a rise in the rent to “Market” rate of $550 per week for a basic, and run down home.
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List of things people believe who are calling for a National-Green Government
The frenzied delusion being coughed up by the corporate mainstream media and their puppets demanding that the Greens work with National would be funny if it weren’t so desperate.
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The Difference Between Jeremy And Jacinda, Is The Difference Between Government And Governance
Even if Winston Peters deigns to make her our next Prime Minister, Jacinda has made it very clear that she hasn’t the slightest intention of frightening the Establishment’s horses; and that her own – and Labour’s – determination to provide good and responsible governance to all New Zealanders, from the top down, will not falter.
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GUEST BLOG: Gael Baldock – Are some Kiwis feeling post-coital regret?
I choose to believe that it’s not as simple as 46% of New Zealanders being selfish in choosing a tax cuts over free doctor’s visits and feeding the children? Instead it’s that type of campaign National chose to run and the “right-washing” of the press that left people confused.
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The ridiculous pro National propaganda of Garner, Du Plessis-Allan, Roughan & Kirk
The right wing and their corporate media enablers need to delegitimise MMP and any Labour led Government by decrying Winston, undermining Jacinda and demonising the Greens.