Dr Liz Gordon: An eventful year
I looked back twelve months to see what I was blogging. My last article in 2020 was about the methods…
New Zealand Politics
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BREAKING: First Poll since Luxon as Leader – National soar – ACT crash!
Luxon may not want to talk about his radical faith, but those who share it are.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Who should one believe over hospital safety concerns?
Who should one believe when concerns are raised openly about safety in New Zealand’s public hospitals? Both the safety of…
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QUESTIONS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF PARLIAMENT MUST ANSWER
Mr Rafael Gonzalez-Montero, the Chief Executive of Parliamentary Services, is the legal employer of all staff at parliament. After an inquiry Nick Smith MP was found to have bullied a young staffer who was blameless. It was so serious Mr Smith resigned.
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Universal entitlements – the welfare “reform” we desperately need
Right-wingers oppose state-provided social programs like education, health, and welfare services on the grounds that they create powerful and wasteful new bureaucracies. But it’s means-tested benefits, not universal programs, that empower bureaucrats to act like petty tyrants.
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Luxon Vs Ardern: Spot the difference
The liberal middle class have spent two weeks attacking Chris Luxon as an appalling right winger and telling us how we should be very afraid of a Luxon-led government.
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The Working Group End of Year Special with Dr Bryce Edwards & Gerry Brownlee
7.30pm Tonight is the The Working Group – the Newest & Greatest weekly political podcast not funded by NZ on Air!
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EXCLUSIVE: ONE UNION CALLS FOR INQUIRY INTO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF PARLIAMENTARY SERVICES
ONE UNION has written to the Speaker of the House today requesting he take action against the chief executive of Parliamentary Services over his conduct relating to bullying by Mr Nick Smith MP.
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GUEST BLOG: Samira Taghavi – The Sexual Violence Bill – (More) Unintended Consequences
To celebrate the Labour-Green policy announcement that an entire category of crime (sexual offending) can be “ultimately eliminated” if given a twenty-five-year period of attention (after thousands of years of modern human existence in which crime has obviously been a concomitant), the government last week chose to pump the Sexual Violence Bill to the top of the parliamentary order paper.
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GUEST BLOG: My Son has been wrongfully convicted of rape – Part 5
Who will stand for Justice?