The two factors that are pausing English’s hand on announcing election date
Bill English is an incredibly savvy and intelligent strategist and the Left should not underestimate him.
New Zealand Politics
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Bill English’s Plan B for TPPA a political ‘own goal’ in election year – Professor Jane Kelsey
The idea from Prime Minister Bill English that New Zealand and other countries might proceed with Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement without…
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The problem with Jacinda
People are often surprised when I say I am much less impressed with Jacinda. I’ve heard her speak in public many times and have shared the platform on various panels with her and others (in my case to represent MANA Movement while she represented Labour) to discuss issues such as child poverty, housing, inequality and the struggles of beneficiaries etc
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Huge launch of Jacinda Ardern’s Mt Albert by-election campaign asks hard questions about what the bloody hell the Greens are playing at
The claim that the by election campaign will somehow be a beautiful women’s moment of enlightenment where politics can be discussed in a respectful way without the destructive ego of the Brosocialists while everyone gets a hug and a gold star for participating just seems so woefully optimistic.
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Allowing the CIA to re-write Lange’s legacy, what do you think the NSA 5 Eyes can do now and what was really revealed at the 2014 Moment of Truth?
I can smell the uranium on the CIA letterhead
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Aotearoa’s experience in overcoming racist and other divisions in the workers’ movement (Part 2 of 3)
Many unions seemed to turn the groups inside the unions which had been formed to empower workers from oppressed groups into inwardly focussed talking shops rather than organising centres.
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TDB Summer Contributions Drive plus 2017 Election Media Crowdfunding
Platforms like The Daily Blog are now more crucial than ever before in the NZ media landscape, if you haven’t donated before, but read us regularly, we could do with your support.
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TOPs environmental policy shows how dangerous to the status quo Gareth Morgan is
…this has always been the danger of Morgan. Labour and the Greens are so frightened of being seen as left wing they have done all they can to drag themselves to the middle and cloak themselves in the water down political language of the centre.
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All that is wrong with NZ politics in one simple devastating chart – Part 2
My blog on comparing Superannuation with the pittance paid out to the vulnerable via the neoliberal welfare state provoked the usual ‘don’t be mean to boomers, we worked hard’ mantra from our beloved boomer comrades.
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – Indonesian Military Sensitivity revealing
Earlier this month, the touchy Indonesian military commander in chief, Gatot Nurmantyo, set off a mini diplomatic storm with Australia. He took offence at teaching materials in use at a Perth military base where some of his officers were being trained.