The truth about National’s supposed 34 000 ‘new’ houses for Auckland
This housing announcement is a joke looking for a punchline.
New Zealand Politics
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National’s home building policy is Labour lite – 34 000 homes by 2030 isn’t a solution!
That’s our Housing Minister standing in front of the Property Institute logo which sums up the past decade of National’s Housing policies. National is a Government of the property speculators, by property the speculators and for the property speculators.
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GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Will Winston Put NZ First?
One of the great conundrums of Kiwi politics is the Peters problem. Unless there is a massive drop in votes for National, Labour will need NZ First’s assistance to form the next government. And that support will almost certainly come at the expense of the Greens, who are likely to be sidelined as part of any coalition arrangement.
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Nowhere for Labour to hide on TPPA in election year
As Prime Minister Bill English heads off to Japan with trade minister Todd McClay in their quest to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the USA, ‘the silence from Labour is deafening’, Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey observes. ‘In an election year, they had hoped the TPPA was dead and buried. Now there is nowhere for them to hide.’
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Mike King quits suicide-prevention panel & claims real suicide rate is twice as high as officials say
A nation that kills itself with the passion ours does is a damaged culture demanding immediate recognition and action now. The denial is beneath us and those who tragically take their own lives. Imagine if we took that $1.7billion ‘surplus’ that National supposedly have and reinvested it into Suicide prevention?
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Easy solution to landlord’s threatening rent rises as a response to Labour cracking down on speculator tax loop holes
Long term low rent accommodation is the solution, allowing the corporate greed monsters of Barfoot and Thompson to just graze on the fields of inequality while those with little get pushed to the fringes is not a solution.
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Alfred Ngaro must be sacked as a Minister and is anyone awake in Andrew Little’s office?
The Opposition need to act on this immediately before Bill English does it off his own bat, because if he does it before they demand action, it makes English look principled and the Opposition look feckless.
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Labour Party Conference a Triumph
Andrew looked confident, the Party membership sense the change in the wider community, Jacinda looked genuine, Grant looked ready, the Greens looked muzzled, the Staff are gloating and the media gave them great coverage.
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GUEST BLOG: Tina Ngata – More Greeny-brown than Browny-Green.
What it said to me back then is that even though there are many Green MPs and policies that I love as a Maori, they’re still not ready to step into the space of being our champions yet. So I cancelled my membership.
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Fertiliser causes social injustices in Western Sahara and environmental injustices here
New Zealand farmers are out of step. As a developed agricultural nation selling our produce and our brand to the world, our companies should be among those showing social responsibility in refusing to buy rock phosphate fertiliser from Moroccan occupied Western Sahara.