If the NZ Herald could stop their SAS sniper death story for a moment and follow up on the Guardian’s real journalism?
…don’t you love how we need overseas journalists to tell NZ what our military do because local NZ media too subservient to do it?
New Zealand Politics
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Whistle blowing scandal at Ministry of Transport grows
That Simon Bridges is just shrugging this of means he’s covering for the Ministry of Transport.
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What if the Greens launched a policy and no one noticed?
If getting a CTU press release on what is now the ugliest Wellington website on the face of the planet is your measure of success, then the Greens did wonderfully well, if you are trying to avoid being relegated to the fourth largest Party after NZ First, not so much.
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So who funds MetService? The weird madness behind the 20 meter wave story
Has everyone seen this 20 meter wave story?
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Birchall – Not Māori Prisons, No Prisons! A Response to Duncan Garner
What of those who are alienated from any family or have no family left (one in five Māori report zero tribal affiliation, and many other affiliates themselves have little connection to the tribal structure)? How would this help address the long-lasting social harms and stigmas that come from having been an inmate, even for a very short time? How would they be able to meet and having meaningful relationships with whanau from inside a prison?
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4 months out from the election and look at the issues we are awkwardly ignoring
It’s weird isn’t it, 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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Let’s be honest about what the 5 Eyes would have discussed in Queenstown
If we were honest about what the 5 Eyes would have spoken about in Queenstown last month for their annual get together to decide who to destroy next, I think the following might have been on the agenda…
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Could The Opportunities Party hit 5%?
Conventional political wisdom will tell you that there is no way TOP can get to 5% with 4 months out till the election, especially when they are barely registering as 1% in the mainstream media polls, but conventional political wisdom doesn’t mean much since Trump, Brexit and Len Pen doubling the Right’s vote in France. Those who are losing from neoliberal free market globalisation are over throwing political hegemonies left, right and centre.
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Let me get this straight, we are signing away our economic & political sovereignty in the TPPA to protect us from North Korea???
Bill English, you should be ashamed of yourself, stop being a bloody politician and start being a New Zealander!
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Now we know why the Greens are freaking out over The Opportunities Party
Now we know why the Greens are freaking out over The Opportunities Party, all week Julie Anne Genter has been taking pot shots at TOP and desperately trying to argue that the Greens are more radical on cannabis than their political posturing towards the centre would suggest.