Left Unsaid: What Andrew Little Didn’t Say In His Pre-Budget Speech
READING ANDREW LITTLE’S pre-Budget speech, one could almost be forgiven for thinking he was the leader of a socialist party. Almost.
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4 months in prison for taking fish for hungry family vs our own Ministry turning a blind eye to 50 years of over fishing
National will be hoping there is enough smoke in this years budget so that NZers can’t see the mirror, because voters may be disgusted by what the reflection shows them.
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Council tenants face eviction as government cons City Councils
Tenants of council-provided social housing face the risk of eviction after the government misled councils into putting council housing into private housing trusts believing this would give them access to the government’s IRRS (Income Related Rental Subsidy).
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GUEST BLOG: Warren Thomson – A CRITIQUE OF THE CULLEN-REDDY INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
The Cullen-Reddy Review gives us a strong indication of some of the likely new elements of new bills, and the opposition to extension of State covert power needs to prepare immediately to prevent further demolition of the rights to privacy, liberty and morally decent public policy making.
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GUEST BLOG: Roger Brooking – What does Tony Robertson have in common with Graeme Burton, William Bell & the Beast of Blenheim?
Robertson was in prison for eight years and had a grand total of seven counselling sessions. Seven sessions in eight years. That doesn’t add up either, does it?
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Arts funding under National
Last month Creative NZ warned it may have to cut arts funding because of a drop in Lotto sales which begs the question, should our culture be tied to gambling?
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GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – Moko Rangitoheriri
The anger has triggered finger pointing. The finger pointing has snowballed action. The action has forced reviews. So what will change? Will Moko be added to the ever increasing list of child abuse statistics, tut-tutted over, paper-pushed around in death as terribly as he was physically pushed around in life?
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Hear no poverty, see no poverty, speak no poverty: We have lost what it means to be a New Zealander
For some like the Key family, life is one long party. DJing, modelling, opening pop culture art events in Paris, Hawaiian mansions, foreign trusts, tax havens, property portfolios, Instagram followers and tax free capital gains.
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The housing crisis is a class war
This is social policy spawned by spite and cruelty. We are actively punishing those whose plight and poverty offends our egalitarian pretensions. We are a country with all the maturity of a day old can of coke, so caught up in the false illusion of speculative property wealth, National voters have become wilfully ignorant to the desperation of their fellow citizens.
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The Space To Make Dreams Come True: Why Labour’s Latest Move On Housing Could Be A Ground-Breaker
This is a major policy announcement from Labour’s housing spokesperson. By embracing the virtues of expansion over intensification, the party has repositioned itself as a defender of Auckland’s characteristic urban sprawl – and everything that goes with it.