Dr Liz Gordon: Women make the parliamentary grade at last
A milestone was passed on Saturday night as sixty women were elected to the Parliament of 120. That’s right, for…
New Zealand Politics
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Of Negotiations, Opportunities and an Obligation to Voters to Govern
Analysis by Selwyn Manning. Selwyn Manning, editor of EveningReport.nz. There’s a mood circulating among some circles that it would end…
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Jacinda smacks down the Greens: Gryffindor becomes Slytherin to kill Hufflepuff
What Jacinda is banking on is the cowardice of the current Green leadership of Davidson and Shaw to be bullied into accepting a substandard deal.
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The new government has a blank page to write on
By running a campaign almost devoid of policy the government has given its supporters a blank page upon which we need to write our concerns and needs, and those of the planet we live on, into a policy for our mutual survival.
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The Liberal Agenda – After Labour’s Landslide: What Next For the Left?
WHEN: Thursday 22 October
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TWITTER WATCH: The 5 grief stages of Hootonism
…never before have so many rich white men wept so many tears for so few actual Left wing policy gains.
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How the Specials will change the result
There are 480,000 special votes yet to be counted, that’s 17% of total votes. This includes an estimated 66,000 overseas and dictation votes.
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The real winner was NZ Democracy
Our turn out was amazing.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Congratulations Labour ….now… let’s see some changes!
Congratulations Labour you have been given the mandate for progressive policy changes
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Dr Liz Gordon: A new society
Well I am pretty happy today. This is indeed a historic election result. And I am feeling optimistic. It feels like it may have felt in 1935. Or 1938. At that time, a great Labour victory was tempered by the gathering storm clouds of war. This time it is the raging Covid, a pandemic that is unlikely to go away soon.