The Finance Leaders Political Debate – James Shaw clear winner
The Finance Leaders Political Debate was held last night and it was far more insightful and interesting than anything we’ve seen so far.
New Zealand Politics
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Monarchy still constraining democracy in Tonga
Tongan politics are so poorly reported in New Zealand that it is hard to judge the actions of the various players in the latest political crisis.
However, we should be concerned that the monarch, King Tupou VI, has sacked the elected government headed by Akilisi Pohiva, an advocate of greater democracy.
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Tales From A Possible Future: The Mother Of All Scandals Breaks
THE STORY APPEARED FIRST on an offshore blog. After that, not even the best legal brains at Crown Law could prevent the voters from learning about the “Mother of All Scandals”. The Internet, as always, prevailed over the frantic machinations of desperate politicians.
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Hell hath no fury like a Winston warned
Winston Peters is going to get medieval on who ever leaked his information to the media.
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WTF – [W]inston’s Pension; [T]he #MotherOfAllScandals; and [F]ilthy Politics in 2017
Look “behind the curtain”, if you will.
The timing of events is, in politics, almost never coincidental.
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Major boil over in Māori Politics – Can Māori Party finally work with Labour?
This could undermine Winston’s power of Kingmaker more than any other move in the rubric cube our political landscape is becoming.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – If Māori back Labour – Labour will back Māori
Apathy is easy to feed when we have been so disappointed by the political leadership of the last 9 years, but Jacinda alongside Kelvin is the best hope for all New Zealanders to see a country that actually lives up to our expectations rather than lowers them.
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Increasing Teina Pora compensation is disgusting
Fuck inflation adjusted, what about justice adjusted rather than justice adjacent?
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Swing and a miss for David Farrar – Campaign For Change wasn’t illegal
Poor old David Farrar, swing and a miss, turns out the Campaign for Change was within the law…
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Wait, what? Bill English tried to hide his involvement in the Todd Barclay fiasco?
This just gets dodgier by the second doesn’t it folks?