China’s property meltdown – here comes the next external shock to NZ
10 years ago analysts were warning that China’s largest property investment company, EverGrande, was a basket case of Frankenstein ideology…
New Zealand Politics
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Outdated Views? Andrea Vance On Sean Plunket
IT’S ONE OF THOSE throwaway lines which, precisely because so little conscious thought was given to it, tells us so much. The author, Andrea Vance, is an experienced political journalist working for Stuff. The subject of Vance’s throwaway line, Sean Plunket, is an equally experienced journalist. It was in her recent story about Plunket’s soon-to-be-launched online media product “The Platform”, that Vance wrote: “Plunket’s dalliances with controversy make it easy to paint him as a two-dimensional character: a right-wing, shock-jock with outdated views on privilege and race.”
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Working for Families isn’t working for poor families
The long promised WFF review has been conducted under wraps, all discussion and meetings in secret and with no consultation, least of all with those affected. While we can now see from the OIAs the direction of bureaucratic thinking, between the annoying redactions that is, it does not impress with either its vision or basic logic.
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Kabul war crime Bullsh*t
Following the Kabul airport suicide bombing. After almost a week and increasing revelations that civilians were killed, in a revenge…
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Many anti-nuclear reasons to oppose AUKUS
There are multiple reasons for nuclear-free New Zealanders to be upset about Australia’s plan to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
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Why replacing Judith still can’t save National
National has 99 problems and while Judith is at least 50 of them, that still leaves 49 problems.
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The true price of a NZ Independent Foreign Policy in the shadow of AUKUS
AUKUS provides a first strike capacity option against China using nuclear subs armed with hypersonic missiles. It’s an aggressive posture…
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MEDIAWATCH: Why Damien Grant is a wimp in today’s MUST READ Oranga Tamariki Stuff Column
If dogma is trumping the actual welfare of children, we have entered a quasi religious belief system as social policy stage and the Identity Politics Left have to be taken harshly to task for such egregious conclusions!
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Dr Liz Gordon: Migration, mental health and murder
Did emigrating to New Zealand trigger some kind of psychotic episode for the mother? Did she have a pre-existing mental illness, and, if so, did Immigration NZ know about it? Or did something else entirely happen?
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Government’s new health indicators fail to indicate
The recently announced new health indicators framework was promoted as a key transformational feature of the Labour government’s health system…