EXCLUSIVE: 7pm tonight the Mt Albert By-Election debate exclusively live streamed on The Daily Blog
TDB are proud to announce the live streamed Mt Albert by-election debate tonight 7pm exclusively on The Daily Blog.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Moana Maniapoto: The Willie Jackson I know
Willie Jackson can be really annoying. In fact, that was one of the reasons we divorced about 16 years ago. Another reason, no doubt, was that he got fed up with me. But that’s the way things can pan out in a marriage. In New Zealand, according to the stats, one in three married couples split up.
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Tax cuts in store but what is Joyce thinking?
We are beginning to see the colour of Steven Joyce’s eyes. Some insights into his views about who deserves tax cuts can be gleaned from this Herald piece: Economy Hub: About those tax cuts… Steven Joyce, the big interview
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GUEST BLOG: Mat Danaher – The Time for a Living Wage is NOW
The announcement this morning of the revised rate for the Living Wage, $20.20 an hour comes at a time when the concept is undergoing a sea change in terms of impact and the national debate.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – The health of our democracy is at risk with the Electoral Commission failing voters
The Electoral Commission needs to wake up.
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Little’s “Broad Church” Widens Labour’s Appeal
The question that cannot be avoided, however, is as straightforward as it is disconcerting: How many more percentage points might Labour have advanced in the Colmar Brunton poll had “discontented party activists” not spent the week prior to its execution demonstrating rank disunity and ideological extremism?
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GUEST BLOG: Paul Moon – Why Willie Jackson could be election decider
Jackson will push the case for urban Maori to receive more government attention, and has the inside knowledge to convert whatever funding is channelled in that direction to achieve something tangible for those who need it most. His work in the area of domestic violence is a good example of such policies in action.
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MANA Movement & Maori Party finally get their act together
The perfect outcome for the Left and Progressive movements would be Labour+Green+MANA/MP = 51%. That outcome would see a Labour/Green minority Government with supply and confidence from NZ First and MANA/MP. It would allow Andrew Little to Govern from the centre left with real emphasis on the Left.
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Why I’d Be Voting For Joe Carolan In The Mt Albert By-Election
I want Labour to run ‘to the left’ of where they were in 2014 – both because I’m sick of quasi-center-right warmed-over neoliberalism masquerading as progressive economic policy … but also because I genuinely believe that moving to the left will help Labour’s prospects later this year in September.
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Cough-cough: Labour go up 2% after selecting Willie Jackson
The middle class educated Identitarian activists and Wellington Twitteratti who went into meltdown after Willie Jackson and Greg O’Connor were selected as Labour Party candidates as part of Andrew Little’s tactical decision to broaden Labour’s appeal to the working class, won’t know what to do after TVNZs Poll last night showing Labour has jumped up 2%.