Screw putting a total sugar label on soft drinks – TAX THEM!
…big sugar are just like big tobacco and big oil. They know their product kills but they have all done everything they can to hide that truth.
New Zealand Politics
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…meanwhile, the planet melts
The biggest story of 2017 was the sudden release of research all year alongside freak weather events that pointed out that catastrophic climate change can occur far faster than was ever thought possible.
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The only shock about National’s stalling tactics is that people are shocked
Winning against National is one thing, governing over them while the mainstream media is totally hostile towards you is another and at this stage it doesn’t seem the Labour Party, Greens or NZ First have the behind the scenes think tank who can game play these scenarios out well enough to not get tripped up.
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Yardley & Hosking: The 2 mikes on poor people & wealth creation
We have one Mike who wants to keep propping up failed economic models and another Mike who wants to keep propping up failed welfare policy.
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A Moral Victory: The Supreme Court Rescues Our Judiciary From Itself
THE SUPREME COURT has finally declared the deal struck between the Department of Labour and Pike River boss, Peter Whittall, “unlawful”. A moral victory for Sonja Rockhouse and Anna Osborne, certainly, but hardly a victory for the New Zealand justice system.
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Is Winston changing tack?
The Israel Institute of New Zealand, in an article entitled Post Election outlook for New Zealand’s relationship with Israel, noted with pleasure that Winston Peters was now in the position of ‘king maker’.
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Elites strike new Government with fear of recession, Liam Dann’s prozac and the PSA is grumpy with new Tax Group
Michael Cullen’s appointment on the tax working group has the PSA screaming, but it misses why he’s been appointed.
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$50 per week won’t solve student debt blackhole
Labour should be embarrassed by this meaningless policy.
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Communist In All But Name! Is Jacinda About to Oversee the Second Peaceful Transition to Kiwi Socialism?
For my money, that’s the most heart-warming endorsement of our new Labour Prime Minister that I have read to date. If Jacinda, with just two words, can shake the very foundations of Wall Street, then it’s possible that a “return to the bad old days of the 70s” may turn out to be something more than this old socialist’s pipe dream.
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Is it time to end big Dairy in New Zealand?
…should we start asking is it time to end big Dairy in NZ?