BREAKING: UN ask NZ to investigate Hit & Run War Crime Allegations
Bill English can’t hide any longer.
New Zealand Politics
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For ACT, euthanasia is a free market solution to health – why I will always oppose euthanasia in NZ
In a country with a mental health system as horrifically underfunded as ours, euthanasia would simply become a tread mill by faceless Wellington bureaucrats for cost cutting purposes on the most vulnerable.
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Green Party Bill on medical cannabis as pointless as Dunne’s meaningless reform
Julie Anne Genter had her medical cannabis reform members bill pulled out at the same time as David Seymour’s Euthanasia Bill. It would see an amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act that would allow cannabis supply for medical users.
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GUEST BLOG: Alan Johnson – Making sense of the Government’s housing numbers
In a press release of June 1 2017, Social Housing Minister Amy Adams claimed her Government was “planning to increase the number of social houses from 66,000 today to 72,000 over the next three years.” A closer scrutiny of such a claim suggests that it is at best fanciful and at worse misleading.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Analysing the Polls
I’ve had a number of people ask me about the latest TV One News Colmar Brunton Poll. If you missed it, the numbers are: National (49%), Labour (30%), Greens (9%), NZ First (9%), The Opportunities Party (1%), ACT (1%) and the Maori Party (1%).
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GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Death of a Deportee
In December 2015, I interviewed a young Aussie who had been deported from his home to New Zealand, the country of his birth. A 501er, as they are known in the Lucky Country. In the article, I referred to him as Doug for privacy reasons.
His real name was Matt and he killed himself last night.
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Why Winston’s anti-Muslim rhetoric is so stupid
Because poor old Labour desperately need to stay on Winston’s good side and because the Greens will get shafted with sweet bugger all in a Labour/NZ First minority Government if they criticise him, it looks like I’ll have to point out for the Left how fucking stupid Winston’s comments are.
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Look at the way National Party MPs try and deceive NZers
The last 9 year rule of National has seen a deeply ideological drive to mutilate the state’s ability to raise revenue so that it can consistently amputate their social welfare obligations. This allows the Government to claim they are ‘living within their means’.
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Right wing semantics over Budget 2017
It is almost obscene that right wing pundits get to pretend that this was a ‘left wing family friendly’ budget when it was nothing of the sort!
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Maybe Trump doesn’t realise – this changes everything
Civil society is also mobilising and activists are mobilising to seize the opportunity. At last there is a deeply offensive target and outrageous behaviour to protest against, instead of the smooth lies and hypocrisy that have been covered over for years by clever PR strategies funded by ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel lobbies.