Labour: towards an MMP strategy
For me though, the best result for the Left was seeing the Labour Party accept and embrace that we needed to vote strategically.
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Nurturing future, civic leadership
Just prior to going on holiday last year I was fascinated by the Heralds weak attempt to try and set the civic Auckland agenda with a silly poll on possible contenders for the Auckland mayoralty.
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On Eleanor Catton, the cost of speaking out and why her words have the right running scared
I hate to break it to so many of our right-wing pundits who know so little about so much, but Catton has been pointing out the failings of our current government for a while now.
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“Minority report”: how the Terrorist Law will stifle dissent and could take away your basic human rights
The purpose of the state and establishment has never really been to keep us safe from terrorism. The purpose is to keep us, their citizenry complaint and quiet – and fearful.
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Stop telling young people to vote. Tell them to start the riot.
This year was the first time I ever voted and in all honestly I feel a bit ripped off. I knew the left would lose badly to the right, so it was not this which left me feeling short changed. It was the left’s behaviour after the fact.
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An open Letter to Sir Bob Jones: demanding a ‘liveable wage’ is not “absurd” it is a basic human right
How out of touch with reality is Sir Bob Jones? His last op-ed ‘Living Wage is a Reward Not a Right’ was so hilarious it reads almost like a parody, only it isn’t.
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Here’s what WINZ are patronisingly saying to people on welfare when they don’t think anyone’s listening
Yesterday, a case manager from WINZ called to tell me that I needed to “imagine what I would do if I did not have welfare”. I replied “Well, I guess if I couldn’t live at home, I would be homeless.” The case manager responded by saying “Now, you see that is a really negative way of seeing it. You would find ways to support yourself.”
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Labour, leadership and White blokes
There seems to be an agreement amongst those currently vying for the leadership that Labour needs to take up more of the middle ground. These White blokes have said that Labour needs to occupy that political space in order to win the votes of their peers, other White blokes.
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Information wars: Gaza as “the last taboo”, the threat of mass surveillance and the spirit of dissidence
“When the truth is replaced with silence” wrote the soviet dissident Yevgeni Yevtushenko, “the silence is a lie.”
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“Now the work of movements begins”: government corruption, media bias, youth voting and the role of revolutionaries
I am so tired of the dirty politics of the National government, aren’t you?