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New Zealand Politics
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Thieves, cheats, and crooks – and that’s just the government – Time to go!
By reducing the real value of Working for families payments since 2010 the National government has taken a cumulative $2 billion out of the homes of working class families.
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The 2 things most political pundits are missing in their analysis of Jacinda becoming Deputy
Some on the Left and in the media feel that Jacinda is underwhelming in some way. That intellectually she isn’t hard enough, in the House not combative enough and everyone always asks ‘yeah but what has she done’.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Kaupapa Maori is the new Kiwi socialism
for me, Kaupapa Māori can be the solution to much of the damage the free market has caused our communities and wider society. Instead of the ‘me first, me first’, mantra of the market, the communal values of Kaupapa Māori calls for a holistic view of the individual and their place within the group.
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And now NZ Prisons are torturing prisoners – again, and their response? “Meh”
Corrections know that the lynch mob mentality of an easily led electorate manipulated by media and politicians will always have a thirst for suffering with punishment. Corrections know that society doesn’t give a fuck about prisoner rights. Corrections know the public are too stupid, angry and fearful about crime to rationally understand that abusing these prisoners only creates more damaged people entering society.
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The spitefulness of Auckland Transport towards Mike Lee
Not inviting Mike Lee to speak, the man who fought to get this piece of our history saved, is a disgraceful and spiteful move by Auckland Transport.
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Lock them up
The government has started the election year with a tough on crime message. More police on the beat and more prisons. The government plans to spend $1 billion on a massive prison-building programme in a country that already imprisons a greater proportion of its people than all but a few OECD countries.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – Auckland’s dirty secret – can we handle the truth?
Sewage pollution of the inner Waitemata harbour is a direct consequence of Auckland’s disproportionate growth. The failure to provide for sufficient basic sanitation infrastructure is something the Auckland Council and the government driving these growth policies would rather the public know as little as possible about.
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In Defence Of Ron Mark’s Record
In all of my dealings with Ron over the last few years, and from my ongoing observation of the ‘second phase’ of his Parliamentary career, if I could pick but two phrases to sum him up they would unquestionably be “man of principle”, and “fighting for a just cause, to defend our country”.
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Fortune’s Favourite: The Rise and Rise of Jacinda Ardern
The last conspicuous veteran of the plague years of the 1980s has bowed to the irresistible logic of Jacinda Ardern’s by-election victory and announced her retirement. Part of that logic, undoubtedly, was the reaction of Annette King’s caucus colleagues to her spittle-flecked outburst to the NZ Herald’s deputy-political editor, Claire Trevett.