Last week, we saw another dairy get attacked by intruders; the latest in a string of attacks in Auckland. The Police say that most of the robberies are due to tobacco prices. While some were quick to jump on the “get tough on crime” band wagon and called for tougher penalties: a political manoeuvre that proved successful throughout the 80s and 90s stemming from Nixon.
I just wanted to thank you all for your support and input into the party’s Real Deal Cannabis Reform Policy….
…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?
That Simon Bridges is just shrugging this of means he’s covering for the Ministry of Transport.
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.
Has everyone seen this 20 meter wave story?
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?
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…
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…
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.