The left and the elections – don’t mourn, organise
As the election gets closer, everyone has an opinion on what needs to be done for their party to be successful.
New Zealand Politics
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Green Conference 2017 – Green Infrastructure Plan & NZ carbon neutral by 2050
The Green Conference is on this weekend. James Shaw has announced a Green Infrastructure Plan which looks pretty good.
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Why the NZ First-Green war will escalate
I don’t think this is going to end well.
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Look at the extremes National will go to get Todd Barclay out of the headlines
The extreme tactics being used by the National Party to get the media to keep Todd Barclay out of the headlines suggests the polling from David Farrar is in and the verdict is that the association is damaging to National.
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Latest Roy Morgan Poll puts Greens/Labour ahead while leaked UMR shows drop
The homicidal chipmunk of NZ news and current affairs, Patrick Gower, is holding up a leaked UMR poll to spell doom for Labour…
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GUEST BLOG: Tibby White – An Open Letter To All Beneficiaries
Being a beneficiary doesn’t mean I don’t still have dreams and a goal of eventually being able to support myself again. I’m never thrilled at the prospect of needing to book an appointment at my local WINZ office. In fact the only time I ever feel like a second rate citizen in my own country is when I’m forced to leave my dignity at the door of WINZ, and join the queue to plead my case for whatever meagre assistance I may be entitled to. Today was one of those days.
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GUEST BLOG: Robin Westenra – Radio NZ bias in reporting of Larsen C calving
Under its broadcasting standards Radio NZ is supposed to reflect both sides of the argument. It has totally failed to do this and has only reported one side of the argument providing the false impression that it is business-as-usual when it comes to the Antarctic. We are told that calving happens all the time, that this is “normal” – an in this regard I could hardly believe my ears when the Arctic was mentioned. This was not verging on but has crossed the line into climate change denial propaganda.
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GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Better to be Hung for a Sheep as a Lamb
In the past week, the options have narrowed for Labour.
The Greens, through motormouth Metiria Turei, have ruled themselves out of the next Government. Labour’s tax proposals, while progressive, are too easily dismissed as complicated and paternalistic. The polls, while probably underestimating the left as usual, give no comfort.
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This is the Political Party currently pushing for legal euthanasia
…would you really trust a person with this level of compassion to legalese euthanasia?
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James Shaw throws Barry Coates under a bus for flawed Green Party strategy
The Greens look divisive, they look like they don’t want to actually change the Government and they will look like hypocrites if they do in fact sit down to work with ‘racists’.