GUEST BLOG: Tina Ngata – 2 MINUTE HISTORY LESSON
1835 – Māori: “We independent, better rec.”
Crown: “Sweet”
Settlers: “YOLO BITCHES”
New Zealand Politics
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Why we urgently need to investigate Chinese influence over National
National Party MPs are personally invested in Chinese Business Interests and shock horror the policy National puts out just happens to benefit those Chinese Business Interests, as for China using farms to help test missile guidance systems for the Chinese military, can anyone possibly find an example more spectacularly splendid than that?
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In defence of MMP and how to fix it
The delegitimisation of any possible Labour led change of Government requires not only an attack on Jacinda, Winston and the Greens for not willing to work with National, but it also needs the system of MMP to be defaced and denigrated as well.
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Why the Slater defamation case is so important for democracy in NZ
Do we want secretly funded fake news campaigns to be able to derail serious public health issues in favour of commercial interests? Is that the kind of public policy debate we want?
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Bryan Gould To Labour: This Is No Time For “Conventional Answers”
BIG UPS TO BRYAN GOULD. Perhaps anticipating a disappointing choice from NZ First on 12 October, the former Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University has put the rhetorical boot into Labour’s fiscal and monetary caution.
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Wait, what? Can we just go back to that story about Police spying on prison activists?
This story demands far more media attention than it has been given. Please share it widely on your social media networks.
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Let’s seriously consider David Farrar’s offer to the Greens and laugh and laugh and laugh
…the only scenario where the Greens join the National Party is if Hitler resurrects from the grave with a legion of Nazi zombies and declares an ecological war against the Amazon rain forest.
Sorry David Farrar, That’s the only scenario.
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Evolving a Multi-Party Democracy
Mainstream journalists continue to struggle with multiparty governance. And the amplified rhetoric resulting from their struggle creates doubts amongst the captive consumers of mainstream media. While we wait for the votes to be counted in our 2017 election, now is a good time to review the evolution of party-based government in New Zealand, and to consider the impediments to progress towards mature multiparty democracy.
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GUEST BLOG: Kim Isaac – the reality for single mums & dads
The income breakdown you are looking at is of a single mum with one child living in South Auckland. The landlord notified a rise in the rent to “Market” rate of $550 per week for a basic, and run down home.
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List of things people believe who are calling for a National-Green Government
The frenzied delusion being coughed up by the corporate mainstream media and their puppets demanding that the Greens work with National would be funny if it weren’t so desperate.