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!
New Zealand Politics
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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.
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20,000 patients admitted to acute mental health care ‘hospital’ facilities in 3 years
These answers will not be found by Coleman and a bunch of time-serving, hui-hopping bureaucrats sitting on their chuffs in Wellington. The community must continue to pile pressure on them and their paymasters until the issues start getting seriously addressed.
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Elderly Tāmaki tenant vows to fight on – Tamaki Housing
The District Court’s judgement against Ioela (Niki) Rauti earlier today is not the end but only the beginning, say dozens…
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Why do we give knighthoods to losers?
What has that man done to deserve a knighthood? Was it the pulling of ponytails? Was it the flag referendum? Was it the lies about mass surveillance? Was it the hundreds of thousands of our kids he left in poverty? Was it the failure of the housing market? Was it the exponential rise in electricity prices? Was it for running down the public health system? Was it for underfunding education? Was it for screwing the poor?
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Why hasn’t the young waitress who had to put up with John Key touching her at her work & had the courage to stand up to him been awarded?
Whose actions deserve rewarding? A rich millionaire whose sense of entitlement allowed him to touch a young woman at work on 10 seperate occasions or the young woman who stood up to him in front of his armed security team and demanded he stop touching her?
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4 months out from 2017 election – National lying, Labour door knocking, Greens middle classing, TOP gaining, NZ First hungry
4 months out from a General Election and the list of issues that our political class and corporate media are avoiding is just extraordinary…
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GUEST BLOG: Jin An – Serco: New Zealand’s real Minister of Police
Having studied criminal policy, worked as a prosecutor, and served as a justice policy advisor, I can tell you with absolute confidence that all the research concludes that prisons do not reduce crime. Prisons do not reduce crime. Prisons. Do not. Reduce. Crime. But what some of the research does show is that they make people feel good; make people feel more safe. More prisons offer the illusion of greater safety.
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Peter Dunne’s new position on cannabis is meaningless
Peter Dunne has announced doctors will be able to prescribe CBD – but no products are yet available, and when they are, like Sativex they will be expensive and unaffordable for most people who could benefit from it.
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Why I will never call John Key Sir. Ever
This vacant optimism merchant banker whose laid back persona struck a chord with middle NZs anti-intellectualism made this country far worse for the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us.