TWITTER WATCH: Chloe Swarbrick burns Greg O’Connor
Green on Red attack.
New Zealand Politics
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Forces aligned against Bridges within National might move against him over holidays
National just needs a simple 51% majority of Caucus for a spill. How many look trust worthy in this picture?
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Myths that hurt children
Blaming WFF for low wages is a bit like pointing to our high rate of suicide and blaming it on the existence of the mental health services. The true cause of low wages is found in casualised hours, precarious employment, automation, globalised labour markets and falling wage share of output due to loss of union power.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Spring
At the justice summit, I passed two Māori participants discussing daffodils and clouds, and stopped dead. “Are you quoting Wordsworth?”…
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Arthur Taylor: Time for more than building upgrades at Waikeria Prison
Arthur Taylor is TDBs Prisoner Rights Blogger currently inside prison. He was not allowed to present at the recent Justice Summit.
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – A NOTE TO WAIKATO HOSPITAL
I just picked up this message from my cousin. I’ve taken out all the family stuff. but I’ve left in her comments about the care my aunty received while she was at Auckland Hospital. I’m posting this because of all the unnecessary grief Papa Carl Perkins and his whanau went through while he was at Waikato Hospital.
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Let’s be honest about New Zealand’s ‘Paedophile village’ shall we? WARNING: You won’t like the answer
First of all, why the Christ is this being called a ‘Paedophile village’? It immediately scares the living bejesus out of locals and sets the nation at unease. It suggests a malignant tumour of a community that must be treated with the same mercy as you treat cancer, i.e. none at all.
‘Paedophile village’ is the very worst of the mainstream media selling clickbait.
Why not call it ‘Utter-failure-of-social-policy village’? Because that is truly what this represents.
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Game theory and NZ Coalition Politics : Agenda Setters, Co-operation, Triumph and Suckers
By applying Game theory, Nested games and the Prisoner’s Dilemma to current NZ politics, we can see that NZ First is playing the sharpest game; it’s triumphant in many policy and funding allocations. Meanwhile the Greens celebrate relatively small wins, with no real incentive to defect, playing the sucker in Labour and New Zealand First’s game.
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668 NZers took their own lives last year – the malaise at the heart of us
The refusal to ever acknowledge that the 30 year neoliberal experiment in society, culture and economics has reaped a bitter harvest of mostly men who are so alienated from themselves that their loneliness and grief swamp the daybreak of the present.
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UPDATE: Wait – what? Simon Bridges expense leaker came from inside National and is now threatening self harm???
This is a ticking time bomb now and the National Party MP either steps down themselves to end this or Bridges pushes ahead, outs the MP himself and then risks that MP hurting themselves.