I’ve been very disappointed in many aspects of the current government’s previous budgets because they have shown a reluctance to pull all the available levers open to them to close the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor in our country. (By and large, for example,they rejected the recommendations of their own Tax Working Group).
Aren’t human beings funny?
Last weeks Haka political theatre in Parliament had a number of political winners and losers.
Labour need to avoid the Kavanaugh effect and remind WJP that this isn’t Twitter thread hashtag politics and she’s only handing National culture war ammunition.
At a time when cancel culture is so prevalent and toxic, winning the right to be redeemable is an important lesson in earnt mercy.
The desperation driving Judith Collins in her attempt to bring back to life the ghost of Don Brash’s Orewa Speech by consistently referring to co-governance as ‘Separatism’ and ‘Segregation’ is not only ugly and disingenuous, it flies in the face of National’s own history of co-governance with Māori.
General practice ownership in New Zealand has been incrementally challenged for some years. It is a chal lenge can’t be…
Hoots doesn’t believe my suggestion that Labour strategists were smart enough to use the pay freeze to slip past the Fair Pay Agreement last week, but then again Hoots thought Todd Muller was a smart choice for National Party Leader so his Machiavellian radar might be off a tad.
THE NUMBER of people outside keeps growing. Where there had once been a harmless handful, there is now a good-sized…
Labour have to show the same leadership for working class cannabis as they have on middle class drugs like Party Pills.