The results of this vanity project will be out by Thursday this week – for Key, the high stakes game of chicken he is playing with the public will have either two results, he wins his flag choice or he loses it.
New Zealand needs more state housing, not less. We are in the middle of a housing crisis for low and middle income New Zealanders and only the government has the resources and the capacity to provide the large number of quality, affordable housing so desperately needed.
So let’s be clear about this, going forward. Pretty much every “X IS DONALD TRUMP!” comparison you hear going forward is going to be little more than a petty political barb wrapped up in current affairs like takeaway fish and chips. The only substance involved in many of them is hairspray.
Of late I’ve been trying to get my head around the discriminatory adoption laws the Human Rights Review Tribunal has recently bought to public awareness.
National’s popularity is kept high due to the property prices going up. Middle class support stops the moment that bubble pops, the Opposition still has some way to go to beat National – but it’s far less pessimistic than the mainstream media or Matthew Hooton are braying.
So what would you expect to be the main story of the week that the Political Editor and Editorial of the largest newspaper in NZ focus on?
It is great to watch the Solomon Islands establishing itself as a champion of human rights for West Papua.
I like Matt Nippert, he is one of the best journalists we have, but the surprise so many of his peers seem to have had at his piece on how multi-nationals avoid paying tax says more about them than the corporations.
It’s like some have just discovered Santa Claus isn’t real.
The Labour Party has been trapped into appearing as being opposed to migrant workers in New Zealand.
Due perhaps to an ongoing lack of vision on the part of our theoretically ‘lead’ Opposition party, we’re quite used to thinking of Labour as being a watered down version of the beliefs of others.