Extraordinary interview exposes Garth McVicar as anti-science flat earth creationist when it comes to sensible sentencing
Garth McVicar is to reasonable social policy on prisons what ISIS is to inter-faith dialogue.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Gareth Morgan – Weak Analyses Plus Political Bias
The TWG has been set an impossible mission – improve the tax regime, make it more efficient and fair, but don’t recommend any changes to the tax treatment of owner occupied housing. And another – make the tax system fairer but don’t deal with the interface between tax rates and welfare (which is just negative tax after all).
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So when are Farmers going to start blaming National for Mycoplasma bovis?
Every election NZ has the choice to either allow National to keep screwing the country up, or allowing Labour in to fix National’s damage
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58 dead & 2771 wounded – NZ must remove Israel from our work holiday program
NZ must remove Israel from our Working Holiday program, allowing IDF here to refresh themselves after such butchery is repugnant and it makes a stand.
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Dear Andrew Little – how to sell the new mega-prison to NZ and save your progressive reputation
I’m guessing the decision to build the new mega-prison must be already made.
I’m guessing the previous government would have signed any future government up to a contract that would cost you an arm and a leg to pull out of.
On top of this cost reality, you have run out of prison beds which means changes to legislation to stop throwing NZers into prison will help things in the future, they won’t help now.
So what are you to do?
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What the online Left don’t get about National Party propaganda
We of the online Left have openly mocked these weird memes which keep showing Jacinda winning as a weird message to use in attempting to denigrate the new Government. What we on the online Left however are missing is that for rump National voters who believe erroneously they were cheated by Jacinda winning, this constant winner framing is rubbing salt in still open wounds.
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Rather than complaining about Labour setting up a similar number of inquires how about answer some questions about Christchurch rebuild & Mycoplasma bovis?
Have the people of Christchurch suffered longer than they needed and have the farming community been betrayed by their own Party?
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Big Brother in your supermarket shopping trolly
Allowing one side of our Supermarket duopoly to harvest data from facial recognition that can be on-sold to others or collected by State agencies is beyond Orwellian.
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Israeli massacre of Palestinian protestors a war crime
One thing is for certain, Lorde made the right call.
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The Boy On The Tram
When the state-owned railways Prebble had pledged to save were being “corporatized” (i.e. readied for sale to private buyers) a story began doing the rounds which Labour insiders always insisted came from Prebble’s Office. It was “The Story of the Disappearing Bulldozer”.