Simon Bridges & Judith Collins response to the meth hysteria their Party fed should rule them out of Government forever
Simon Bridges & Judith Collins have managed to make Trump’s victim blaming look like valid criticism.
New Zealand Politics
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If Phil Goff won’t fix Auckland’s housing crisis – could John Tamihere take the Mayoralty off him?
Goff has been great at treating the symptoms of Auckland’s housing crisis, Tamihere however could focus on a cure.
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Carmel Sepuloni must assure NZers that MSD didn’t remove children from State Tenants because of meth hysteria
We know now that Housing NZ were cruel and spiteful to their tenants, and we know that MSD and WINZ has a vicious reputation for treating beneficiaries with contempt so the NZ Government needs to assure the public that no child was taken off a state tenant because of this meth hysteria.
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On the same day NZ Herald profiles China threatening academic, they run Chinese propaganda
Oh the irony. Nothing sums up the current failure of NZ media better than this.
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Update on my case against NZ Police illegally spying on me
…Our watchdogs have no teeth or bark.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Gould – Positive Money Petition
Many of today’s generation will have forgotten or be unaware of the brave and successful initiative taken by our Prime Minister in the 1930s – the great Michael Joseph Savage. He created new money with which he built thousands of state houses, thereby bringing an end to the Great Depression in New Zealand and providing decent houses for young families (my own included) who needed them.
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Pitiful response to Housing NZ meth hysteria
The “pocket money” offer to state house tenants wrongly evicted from their homes based on bogus meth testing is deeply cynical and insulting.
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Sacking a female Māori MP in the week of Suffrage 125
What a tragic symbolism for Māori women in the week of Suffrage 125.
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Annual Leave: Time’s Up – Pay it back!
Hundreds of millions of dollars are owed to hundreds of thousands of workers and only the top 100 employers are being asked to fix the problem and pay it back.
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Has Neoliberalism Colonised Our Minds?
New Zealand is by no means exempt from the effects of this unravelling neoliberal hegemony. In this country, also, there is a large colonised population presided over by a distant and hated elite. We, too, have constructed an underclass whose full citizenship and personhood is routinely denied in overcrowded prisons; at the counter of the local WINZ office; and by “unconsciously biased” teachers, medics and cops.