TWITTER WATCH: – Jacinda’s cat has more followers than the Deputy Leader of the National Party
Can there be a more wonderful humiliation?
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Stephen Parry – It’s Our Future: Now is the time for Labour to make good on its criticism of the TPPA
Over the last 6 years tens of thousands of New Zealanders have hit the streets in opposition to the TPPA. Hundreds of thousands have signed petitions, and polling has consistently shown that the public were against the agreement.
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The horror of the Ministry for making Vulnerable Children
…when the State can steal your baby with impunity, at what point do we demand massive reform inside these neoliberal welfare agencies who only serve to damage and punish the most vulnerable amongst us?
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100000 new houses, ban on foreign land buyers, re-entering Pike River & sugar tax – this is what political leadership looks like
I have said it once, I’ll say it again – pundits still don’t understand how radical this Government intends to be.
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What Jacinda Ardern is really doing with the TPPA
…I think that keeping their heads down and allowing the TPPA to implode all on its own to escape an open confrontation with the elite rich of NZ is a smarter move for a new Government than declaring war on the neoliberal establishment on day one.
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What NZ First Chief of Staff appointment really means
The truth is that this Government intends to be far more interventionist and radical than others before it and the corporate punditry are tactically in denial about that so that they can express faux outrage when the free market neoliberalism on steroids gets challenged.
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Dollars and sense – Joyce’s hypocrisy
You’d think that after the humiliation of being dumped from government, that National’s ex-Ministers would keep a relatively low profile in the next few months.
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Who Is Craig Renney, And What Is He Advising Grant Robertson To Do?
But what, exactly, does that mean? Is Craig merely putting flesh on the bones of Grant’s, and the Labour Policy Council’s, ideas? Or, are Grant and Labour merely repeating ideas and policy positions fed to them by Craig? And, if it’s the latter, then what are the ideas and policies our new government is being asked to swallow?
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Can Labour resist the Prison Industrial Complex?
It takes far more money to heal human beings than punish them, but the results are far healthier for society as a whole.