What would you do Prime Minister English?
Bill English claims to be keen on rewarding ‘hardworking’ New Zealanders.
New Zealand Politics
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With all due respect to Nikki Kaye and Paula Bennett, if you want to slag off Jacinda Ardern…
National always had an inane surge of female voters under John Key. These female voters are now comparing Jacinda with Paula Bennett and they are walking back to Labour. This is why National are freaking out and lashing out viciously at her.
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Alex Birchall: What Class Are You In? The Truth about Social Reproduction in the NZ Education System
In theory, education is supposed to be the ‘great equaliser’ – this is an idea we often tell ourselves and others. For well-meaning liberals, the answer to a significant amount of the world’s problems lies in its citizens being better educated. Sociologists have amassed a great deal of evidence that demonstrates the power of social class in enabling or disabling children’s achievement potentials at school right off the bat.
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Christine Rose: Industrial scale egg production is cruel, that’s the real problem
The fact that most of the billion eggs produced and sold in New Zealand are generated through the cruel mistreatment and industrial commodification of hens, is a greater issue than that a relatively smaller percentage of them were mislabeled as free range when in fact they were from cages.
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DAILY BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Auckland Housing Crisis Special Investigation – Homeless using after hour Bunnings Carparks as home
Why the bloody hell is New Zealand getting so unaffordable that an Australian companys carpark is the best help available to a growing number of our people?
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Politically, Abortion change rests with NZ First so what does that look like?
So how does it all play out politically? Where are the 4 Political Parties that will decide any change in abortion law on this?
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Mass surveillance of beneficiaries, rape and sexual abuse survivors
The ramifications of the mass surveillance of beneficiaries is starting to be understood by the NGOs who are now finding their funding threatened.
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Water for New Zealanders!
We need a commitment from the Opposition that there will be an immediate moratorium on all foreign interests taking water including the existing contracts.We need to prioritise the water needs of the environment and people first and then business second.
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Barry Coates: Super vs tax cuts – what’s affordable?
The super debate hasn’t been super. It has missed the most important issues. The government has tried to focus on misleading measures of financial affordability in 2040, in an attempt to position themselves as responsible. But the real issues are about fairness and equity, across and within generations.
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Willie Jackson: Raising the retirement age isn’t fair
Lot of talk this week that we need to raise the age of retirement to 67. The argument is that we can’t afford Superannuation at 65 for everyone so we should raise it to be ‘fair’. But who exactly is that being ‘fair’ to?