GUEST BLOG: Julie Carter – Well done Labour!
Labour’s plan to put an end to fake student’s is bang on the money.
New Zealand Politics
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Mean and petty and wrong
It is bad for the democratic process when government to fails to address such a clear injustice especially in this case when it poses little fiscal cost. But we don’t seem to know how to do sensible retirement policy any more.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – SBW, Mike King and Nicky Hager should be getting honours
It’s another Queen’s Birthday Honours list and although I have never been a supporter of this nonsense and hope that one day we throw out this outdated way of honouring Kiwis, I have to admit there are certainly a couple of people who deserve their honours.
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Which political party in NZ is best placed to benefit from the Corbyn Youthquake?
One of the big reasons why Corbyn won, was because he motivated young voters to engage and become not only involved in the political debate but managed to actually get them to participate on the day to vote as well.
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What does the Corbyn result in the UK mean for New Zealand?
New Zealand’s Labour Party is a neo-liberal, free market party with policies to match. If NZ Labour wins in September then income inequality and wealth inequality will continue to increase while the rest of us struggle to add that extra lining to the pockets of the idle rich.
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Labour cauterises the foreign student rort
…Labour have been burnt in the past when trying to tackle immigration. They have been insensitive and clumsy at times when trying to roll out their ideas, but this is cleverly targeted policy that has none of the tone deaf bluntness.
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Q+A Review
Panel is Matt McCarten who announces he’s starting a new Campaign For Change movement, Jennifer Curtin and Fran O’Sullivan. Lockwood Smith…
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If Corbyn inspired you, the Campaign for Change launches Monday
Matt McCarten will launch the Campaign for Change Monday.
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Latest TV One Poll, why National should be worried and Labour’s 4 secret weapons for the election
This time in the election cycle out from 2014 the Nets were polling 50% in the same One Network News Poll, some Polls in that month had National at 54%. This was the month the NZ Herald claimed Cunliffe had lied about the dirty politics fake news story they were running about Donghua Liu.
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Corbyn, the NZ Political Left and how we can make it happen this election
Watching our NZ Political Left scrambling to associate themselves with Corbyn on social media is a sad joke. Corbyn’s real left policy won the day and robbed Theresa May of a victory in a political comeback not seen since Christ’s resurrection. In NZ, our Left policy is a warmed up cold grey gruel compared to the 7 course Dégustation offered voters in the United Kingdom.