4 shades of Bill: There isn’t a tape! There is a tape! There might not be a tape! I was asked if I wanted to listen to the tape that didn’t exist?
How could English claim the tape doesn’t exist if Todd Barclay offered to play him the tape???
New Zealand Politics
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Top 5 batshit crazy things we must believe to accept Bill English’s version of events
The list of batshit crazy things we are being asked to believe in order to accept Bill English’s version of events over what he knew, when he knew and how he knew about Todd Barclay breaking the law is becoming more absurd by the day.
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At some point people are going to admit this 2month old story about a Labour intern slave scandal was just a distraction from Bill & Todd
Audrey Young is no card carrying member of the Labour Party so her vicious take down of National when comparing Labour’s supposed scandal up against National’s actual scandal this week is devastating…
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Hamilton student to battle NZ Government in landmark climate lawsuit
A law student from Hamilton is preparing to challenge the Government in the High Court on Monday over what she…
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The level of racism against Marae by right wingers desperate to denigrate Labour highlights the hatred that drives these people
The spitefulness of those describing Marae as sweat shop slums for political gain is the ugliness here, not the attempt to engage youth at the ballot box.
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The broad definition of GCSB security
The broad definition of security is long-standing, introduced around the same time as the SIS botched break in of Aziz Choudry’s house in Christchurch at the time of an APEC meeting there.
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Why the Labour Party Student Intern ‘scandal’ is a smear
When the Labour Party Student Intern story erupted this week, just as Bill English was in serious trouble, I thought “Well that’s convenient isn’t it”.
I was out to the Marae 2 weeks ago having a look around at what they were doing. I had a meal with them, talked with some of the volunteers. They were fantastic young people who were loving the adventure of it all.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Ideas arent enough
In contrast to the rest of the world, NZ seems to be sleepwalking towards an election. If you want too see an ambitious, radical and progressive political voice, the options are sadly limited. For the radical left, the question is how do we turn this around? How can we build a radical political instrument to express the popular frustration with the status quo?
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Make Trade Fair in the Pacific
We gain privileged access to Pacific markets, but they gain no new access to our markets. There are no obligations on Australia to stop their protectionist policies towards Pacific kava exports and other fruit and vegetables that are produced in Australia. New Zealand exporters will gain $20 million in reduced tariffs, but this is lost revenue for Pacific governments that are already struggling to provide basic health care and education to their people.
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Statement from Matt McCarten, Campaign for Change
In May this year my contract with the Labour Party ended and I left to run a programme called the…