PART 1: Julie Anne Genter vs Marama Davidson for co-leader of the Greens (plus Lucy Lawless?)
Firstly, how lucky are the Greens to have two spectacular candidates compete in what will be a respectful and challenging contest?
New Zealand Politics
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Blowing Smoke: Why Jacinda needs to talk less and do more.
The “other half” of New Zealand is crying out to this government for brave deeds – not fine words. The last thing Jacinda needs to be remembered for is substituting stardust for substantive action.
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The new media narrative about Global Warming
I’ve noticed a new narrative line being developed in the mainstream media towards climate change.
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The problem with blaming the computers for the crash
Blame the computers all you like, but also acknowledge that the 10 years of distorted markets due to trillions spent on quantitive easing has created a perfect storm where the AI of the computers becomes ruthless with the greed of the humans.
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Twitter Watch: A smarmy former tobacco lobbyist and current National MP responds
Gutless maggot and former tobacco lobbyist, Christopher Bishop, has responded on twitter to criticism of his cowardly u-turn on medical cannabis….
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Matthew Hooton is now Mongolia’s Honorary Consul in NZ?!?! This wondrous absurdity made today worth living
Unfortunately for conspiracy theorists, the actual truth is far weirder than fiction. Hooton has been doing consultancy in Mongolia for a very long time and visited the country as a Uni student.
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The myth about ‘market fundamentals’
What we have isn’t a fully functioning market secure with all the fundamentals, we have a waiting time bomb.
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So what the Unemployment rate really says is we are all working harder and longer for less
There is little to cheer in these stats. We have a part time work force with a Precariat class who are at the whims of a brutal market while the wealthy plump up the medium wage.
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Labour’s first post-Waitangi challenge: will it allow the Waitangi Tribunal to complete the TPPA inquiry?
There were lots of positives at Waitangi this week. There was also a lot of gloss, driven by hope (and perhaps primed by Shane Jones hospitality). Labour promised that it will be accountable to Maori. That promise faces a major test next week, as the Crown responds in the Waitangi Tribunal’s inquiry on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
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On Waitangi Day: Reflections from one Rangatahi Immigrant
I’ll be the first to openly admit that I could have prioritised my own education on te ao Māori far more than I have, and that I am guilty in that regard. I take responsibility for that and I’m not proud of it. But I wish our systems of education, which must also extend beyond formal institutes of learning, might come to the table with this understanding too