While you squeal with vanity on social media about your Secret Santa delivery – here is the rest of NZ
…a change of Government is not enough and we have a long, long, long way to go. But please continue with the Secret Santa bragging.
New Zealand Politics
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For a living wage PLUS restoring margins for skills and service
2018 will see Unite Union campaigning to rewrite all new collective agreements to ensure that all workers benefit from the planned increase in the minimum wage to $20 an hour by April 1, 2021.
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Long Live The Sun Queen!
I have participated in, and written about, politics for close to 40 years, but in all that time I can honestly say I have never witnessed anything like Jacinda Ardern’s first media conference as Labour Leader.
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GUEST BLOG: Honourable Tracey Martin – Reflecting on 2017
I live in a very blue part of New Zealand but even there people have been coming up to me, people I know who vote blue, to say that they feel hopeful about this new Government. I am glad, I am proud but I am also very aware that over the next few years we must deliver for New Zealand and New Zealanders. That is our biggest challenge and we accept it.
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Dave Macpherson: What’s the Red/Black/Green Government up to on mental health?
If the Minister is ever to break out of the ‘Yes Minister’ straightjacket in mental health, he must turn to the community, to service users and to coalface mental health workers for his advice (and by that we don’t mean a raft of self-interested psychiatrists currently employed by DHBs around the country).
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Why Jacinda & Clarke need to host a famous Labour Party Summer BBQ
New Zealand’s first couple (is that what we call them?) have plans for a well deserved summer holiday, but I also think they need to re-invent a famous Labour Party tradition.
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The neoliberal seductiveness of euthanasia
Self-assisted suicide – which is what we are really discussing here, not the far more sterilised ‘euthanasia’, will become a means to a neoliberal end in NZ.
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Open letter to the Honourable Carmel Sepuloni – end the horror of the neoliberal welfare state
If you are serious about changing welfare in NZ Carmel, then end the punitive debt and crushing punishment that is dealt out to those on Welfare. The bullshit need for the disabled to send in letters annually for disabilities that can’t be ‘cured’. The penalty interest rates put on welfare overpayments, the culture of fear that alienates and the staff who refuse to inform beneficiaries of what their actual rights and entitlements are.
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Why Climate Change could politically splinter the Greens and Labour
The current Green Party are locked into middle class identity politics and middle class environmentalism while Labour are too frightened to use the power of the State to intervene well beyond the timid measures currently being proposed.
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Sweet Jesus – I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
I never believed it would happen – I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
Her latest column is right.
Kinda.