Willie Jackson: The health of our democracy is at risk with the Electoral Commission failing voters
The Electoral Commission needs to wake up.
New Zealand Politics
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Chris Trotter: Little’s “Broad Church” Widens Labour’s Appeal
The question that cannot be avoided, however, is as straightforward as it is disconcerting: How many more percentage points might Labour have advanced in the Colmar Brunton poll had “discontented party activists” not spent the week prior to its execution demonstrating rank disunity and ideological extremism?
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Paul Moon: Why Willie Jackson could be election decider
Jackson will push the case for urban Maori to receive more government attention, and has the inside knowledge to convert whatever funding is channelled in that direction to achieve something tangible for those who need it most. His work in the area of domestic violence is a good example of such policies in action.
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MANA Movement & Maori Party finally get their act together
The perfect outcome for the Left and Progressive movements would be Labour+Green+MANA/MP = 51%. That outcome would see a Labour/Green minority Government with supply and confidence from NZ First and MANA/MP. It would allow Andrew Little to Govern from the centre left with real emphasis on the Left.
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Why I’d Be Voting For Joe Carolan In The Mt Albert By-Election
I want Labour to run ‘to the left’ of where they were in 2014 – both because I’m sick of quasi-center-right warmed-over neoliberalism masquerading as progressive economic policy … but also because I genuinely believe that moving to the left will help Labour’s prospects later this year in September.
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Cough-cough: Labour go up 2% after selecting Willie Jackson
The middle class educated Identitarian activists and Wellington Twitteratti who went into meltdown after Willie Jackson and Greg O’Connor were selected as Labour Party candidates as part of Andrew Little’s tactical decision to broaden Labour’s appeal to the working class, won’t know what to do after TVNZs Poll last night showing Labour has jumped up 2%.
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Green Party Members Special: Ranking the top 20 Green Party candidates
If you are a Green Party Member, this 2017 candidate party list selection is the most important thing you can do to make NZ a better place. Make your selections and get the list returned asap.
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No Pride in Prisons vs NZ Corrections
Fundamentally the problem we have with our prison system goes beyond the 2013 Bail Amendment Act, the real problem is the Sentencing Act 2002 which was passed by a knee jerk Helen Clark Labour Government. This single piece of legislation has done more to keep NZers locked up for 18-21 hours every day and dramatically expanded the prison population than any other law…
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Chris Trotter: The Wrong Sisterhood: Forgotten Lessons of the 1984 Women’s Forums
Sisterhood is, indeed, powerful – but only when your sisters can be relied upon to vote the right way.
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Keith Locke: Labour’s law and order stance bad for the Left
Failure to properly address the roots of most offending, especially poverty, condemns us to a higher crime rate than we need to have, and poor communities to an alarming rate of incarceration. Tough policies, imprisoning more of the poor, is not the answer.