More Smoke and Mirrors from Erica Stanford
Erica Stanford says Year 8 maths is improving. The Ministry’s own numbers suggest the truth is more complicated.
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Labour’s Free Trade Capitulation highlights why you need Greens and Te Pāti Māori in the mix and not Winston
Labour’s support for the India free trade deal may secure the numbers — but opens the door for Winston’s race-baiting politics.
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So we are clear, a vote for National is a vote for Winston, so vote TOP instead
National’s collapse in the polls could make Winston kingmaker again — unless TOP breaks through.
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Suicide rates for prisoners should shame us, it won’t, but it should
Former prisoners are dying after release — and the system designed to rehabilitate them appears to look away.
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The Truth about NZs little battler myth and why free market dynamics don’t work here
New Zealand isn’t a tiny battler — it’s a vast, sparsely populated nation built on State infrastructure, not free market fantasy.
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History repeats in Iran
Before America and Israel preach democracy to Iran, they should remember who helped create the crisis.
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All economists were wrong again about inflation as Moody’s downgrades New Zealand’s financial outlook to negative
Inflation fears are rising, economists are backtracking, and Moody’s has put New Zealand’s economy on notice.
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Government quietly strangles off Treaty references
After months of attacking Treaty references, the coalition may be realising Māori-bashing has reached its electoral ceiling.
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The Oligarchy Mordor is in the New Zealand Shire
Giga-yachts at the top. Food banks at the bottom. This isn’t a gap — it’s a system.
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What National showed us during this fuel crisis was that they will serve us all up to the free market
When things fall apart, who picks you up — and who tells you to harden up? The fuel crisis gave us the answer.
