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!
New Zealand Politics
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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.
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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.
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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.