The Zombie TPPA: what the opposition parties say
The National government has got its wish – the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is off the front pages and back into the shadows of secret negotiations. Big dangers lurk in those shadows!
New Zealand Politics
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The Greens’ Campaign Reset: Normal Ideological Transmission is Resumed
WATCHING THE GREENS’ campaign reset unfold, I couldn’t help but regret the demise of the pre-Dotcom Mana Party. Because sure as eggs-is-eggs, the Greens have put poverty behind them. Not rhetorically, of course, as James Shaw, now the party’s sole leader, made clear to the assembled journalists: “[W]e will continue to talk about poverty. That conversation makes a lot of people uncomfortable. I’m comfortable with that.” Except, of course, he isn’t. Not in the least. Not on your Nelly.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – I’m getting a little bit tired of commentators asking where Labour Party policy is
Let’s cut to the chase. I’m getting a little bit tired of commentators asking where Labour Party policy is. We’ve been putting out policies consistently for the past couple of months and I’m proud of the policies that Labour have been coming out with.
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National’s ‘Maaaari-gonna-steal-the-water-under-Labour’ racist dog whistle shows how frightened they are of Jacinda
…Oh No! Maaaari might have a say over the heavily polluted rivers National helped exacerbate – what will motivate us?
Racism or clean drinking water?
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Stare how we treat disabled beneficiaries in the face
This is how the neoliberal welfare state that Metiria stood up against treats the disabled…
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Why National’s Bootcamps are 10 times worse than you thought they were
We know our justice system is racist, this new policy is weighted heavily against Maori who would fail many of the set criteria being used. All this will do is put even more young Maori in prison.
We should be horrified at policy so openly racist.
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10 Important stories about National’s political agenda that got lost in Jacindamania and Metiria’s assassination
With all the heat, noise and media attention on Jacindamania and Metiria’s political assassination, important news stories that really spell out the deficiencies and hollowness of National’s political agenda are being lost in the noise.
Here are the top 10.
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MUST WATCH: Jake Tame destroys Bill English over Bootcamps
Jack Tame is one of NZs best and most underrated journalists and interviewers, watch him destroy Bill English’s bullshit reasoning over Bootcamps.
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Black and white or 50 shades of grey?
In 1994 CPAG was formed in response to the truly appalling changes Ruth Richardson rammed through in the early 1990s that saw rates of child poverty soar along with rates of 3rd world child diseases. Do people really understand that a sole parent’s benefit was cut below the poverty line but if they tried to earn extra money, they lost most of it?
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Metiria Turei and the debate on poverty and inequality
Poverty and inequality are topics our two main political parties would prefer not to talk about. It was their political decisions in the 1980s and 1990s which led directly and predictably to poverty for beneficiaries and low-income families and their political decisions which have maintained and entrenched it since.