GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Shaw Thing
Now that the dust is settling on the Turei resignation, it might be time to have a dispassionate look at why she had quit as leader of the Greens.
New Zealand Politics
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We have a media more interested in Aaron Smith’s sex toilet texts than Bill English’s abuse of power texts
Aaron Smith’s sex toilet romp is actually more important to the corporate media than Bill English secretly paying a former staff member a small fortune to protect one of his MPs that National were dependent upon to get legislation through.
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Cowards Bill English and Jonathan Coleman flee protestors at Dunedin Hospital
It says something about how dire under funding in health has become that the Prime Minister and Minister for Health have to flee protestors like cowards.
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New UMR Poll – National 40%, Labour 37%, Green 8%, NZ First 9%
The rich white male broadcasters of the corporate mainstream media were trying to convince voters this election that it was a sleepwalk to victory for National. To date, every poll over the last month has proven every single one of them wrong.
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NZ’s huge criminal underclass created from political choice
Criminals aren’t born, they’re created. They’re created in response to a combination of factors such as socioeconomic status (poverty) and class (social marginalisation and exclusion), family dysfunction, illiteracy, unemployment, substance abuse and mental ill-health. And they’re created by punitive laws, ‘penal populism’ leading to policies ‘strong on law and order’, unconscious bias in the police force, and subsequent distortions in remand terms and conditions, sentencing and incarceration.
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It’s A Question Of Values, My Friends: What The Greens Must Do To Survive
New Zealand needs the Greens in Parliament. Not to turn New Zealand into a “thriving green economy” filled with “booming businesses”, but to remind us, at every possible opportunity, that “people are more important than progress”, and that a better world is possible.
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LATEST ROY MORGAN POLL: National 42.5% Labour 32.5% Green 9% NZ First 11.5%
The latest Roy Morgan Poll backs up the trend for Labour to grow, but not the horrific meltdown of the Greens…
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Quick – Auckland Transport, build another pink cycle way
Auckland Transport is one of the most corrupt bodies in Auckland, and manages to get away with any real public transport obligations by throwing the trainspotters over at Greater Auckland the odd pink cycleway and hipster pet project while doing sweet fuck all for the long suffering working class public transport users.
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NZ Government taken to Court for hiding war crimes
Let’s just do one thing for the civilians and children butchered by John Key’s war crime, if the ruling comes down and finds us guilty. Key must be stripped of his knighthood.
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Mainly hippies and drug addicts: The selective morality of Matthew Hooton
Let’s not forget, that when Cathy Odgers asked for Hager’s address in Dirty Politics so that wealthy clients of her’s could assassinate Hager for drawing attention to the clandestine trusts they were using to launder cash, Hooton immediately gave Cathy Hager’s address.