Is it a surprise that we have a culture of bullying when we have a PM who thinks touching a waitress on 10 separate occasions is just fun?
Can we expect our children to be better if that is the example we set?
politics
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Road Tolls in Auckland a tax on the poor and dodgy Chinese building isn’t much of a solution
The solution to Auckland’s grotesque infrastructure underfunding is to allow new bonds or fresh funding from central Government. Auckland’s growth has traditionally been suffocated by Wellington and it continues today.
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What are we actually doing in Iraq? The answer will shock you
If you ask a NZer to put their lives in danger for our ‘National Interest’, it better be for honourable and just reasons, not as the price we pay for being inside the 5 eyes club. We have obligations as a global citizen, but do those obligations extend to cleaning up America’s latest failed adventure?
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GUEST BLOG: Sam Gribben – Welcome back, Hone Harawira
With the Greens’ long and deliberate shift from the fringes, which has now resulted in an official Memorandum of Understanding with Labour, there is a renewed need for the outspoken, radical flank.
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Is it time for some Community Communism in Aotearoa?
The outlawing of Zero Hours Contracts in Aotearoa this April was big news for the Left and union movement abroad, with the result that Unite union activists were invited to speak at conferences and parliaments in Ireland, Britain and the USA last month.
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Gerry Brownlee uses Orlando shooting to justify NZ troops in Iraq
“We’re not insulated from the sort of thing that we saw in Orlando.” – Gerry Brownlee, re NZ extension of troop deployment in Iraq
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All John Key is saying, is give war a chance
We sow the seeds of the next monster with every intervention. This is America’s mess, America cleans it up, we shouldn’t give them the pretence of support for their perverse sense of National Interest which always seems to end up being for Corporate benefit.
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Latest Roy Morgan Poll – National 43% – Labour/Green 42.5%
We report political polls like we report sports results in this country. The MoU forces the media to report on them as a block, this goes in the voters mind from Labour 28-National 49 to Labour-Green 42.5 to National 43. See the impact that makes?
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Where were you when we needed you?
As unions struggled to organise workers over the last 25 years governments de-regulated the labour market or sat back and watched organised labour fall apart. The art of civil society is to organise for the common good whereas the art of politicians is to compromise, for their own good.
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“Hate To Say Ron Told You So” – On Key’s Recent Flip-Flop About Kiwi Troops In Iraq
Regardless of what and whether you feel about New Zealand military involvement in Iraq. Irrespective of whether you think putting Kiwi boots on the ground in Iraq makes us a target; or if you think that training up Iraqi forces somehow makes us safer here at home … the Government has lied, distorted, spun, manipulated and mislead its own people a score of times over this particular issue. There’s just simply no way around it.