BACKBENCHER REVIEW: Can someone please shut James Shaw up?
Let’s keep James doing what he does best, watering down Environmental policy so that Dairy Farmers don’t feel threatened.
New Zealand Politics
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Is New Zealand caught in an electoral bubble that can only give the rich and powerful power?
Stepping back from the politics of the moment, have we as a country become caught in an electoral bubble that can only give the rich and powerful power?
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Why Our Government Really Has No Interest In “Solving” The Kiwi Mental Health Crisis
I will be genuinely surprised [and inestimably pleased] if any of our political class dare – as part of what’s set to become this year’s election debates – to name the specter whose rapacious possessionary antics have fed so perniciously into the mental health crisis of today.
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Affordable housing, swimmable rivers, prison rehabilitation & a suicide reduction policy with no targets – welcome to denial
The denial we have allowed National Party voters to force upon us over the last decade has to end in September or we will be adrift in a carefully tailored culture of denial where no issue is ever solved.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Mike King is a NZ hero
What happened this week with Mike King quitting the suicide-prevention panel goes beyond politics and demands our focus as a country and as a community.
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Why NZ officials are talking about North Korea hitting us with a nuke & how ideological are National really?
North Korean nukes is such an obvious front of a story and our embedded media who should be asking questions like, ‘why the hell are you trying to kick start this anti-democratic pro corporate power trade deal off again’ are breathlessly reporting to us about imaginary mushroom clouds.
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The truth about National’s supposed 34 000 ‘new’ houses for Auckland
This housing announcement is a joke looking for a punchline.
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National’s home building policy is Labour lite – 34 000 homes by 2030 isn’t a solution!
That’s our Housing Minister standing in front of the Property Institute logo which sums up the past decade of National’s Housing policies. National is a Government of the property speculators, by property the speculators and for the property speculators.
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GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Will Winston Put NZ First?
One of the great conundrums of Kiwi politics is the Peters problem. Unless there is a massive drop in votes for National, Labour will need NZ First’s assistance to form the next government. And that support will almost certainly come at the expense of the Greens, who are likely to be sidelined as part of any coalition arrangement.
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Nowhere for Labour to hide on TPPA in election year
As Prime Minister Bill English heads off to Japan with trade minister Todd McClay in their quest to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the USA, ‘the silence from Labour is deafening’, Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey observes. ‘In an election year, they had hoped the TPPA was dead and buried. Now there is nowhere for them to hide.’