Peter Dunne and the National Party should hang their heads in shame!
That Helen had to become a criminal to gain the cannabis she so desperately needed to ease the pain of the last 20 months of her life is a national disgrace.
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$1.8 billion dollar surplus? What $1.8billion dollar surplus?
And how do we have this surplus then?
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Helen Kelly: 1964-2016 – We have lost a great New Zealander and we are a lesser country for her passing
Her tireless fighting for the most vulnerable workers made her a civil rights champion the likes we haven’t seen in the position of Union President. Her authenticity her realness and her total lack of ego made her unique.
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National so mean they’ve made Housing NZ homeless
If it was Labour in power and they had screwed up so badly that Housing NZ was in danger of running out of cash, every editorial in the country would be demanding their resignation, National do it and it’s just business as usual.
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MUST READ: Dear New Zealanders – Do you have any idea what the bloody hell the NZ Security and Intelligence Bill does?
As more and more NZers suddenly wake up to this appalling legislation and its ramifications – people are going to be outraged.
Outraged that they didn’t know this bloody thing was even happening.
Outraged at the full scale assault on our democracy that it represents.
And outraged that it’s been allowed to progress this far with bugger all scrutiny.
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Judith Collins and Child Poverty
How dare she blame parents when the housing crisis erodes wages, how dare she blame parents when Kiwis are being forced to live in cars. How dare she blame parents when 41 000 are homeless. How dare she blame parents when there are 300 000 children living in poverty.
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Paralympian Áine Kelly-Costello: Let’s make some noise about Quiet Vehicles… and Quiet Drivers
With my environmental activist hat on, I welcome this shift. With my blind pedestrian hat on, on the other hand, I greet this trend with apprehension.
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‘Poverty of parental responsibility’ and ‘True Homeless’ – How the National Party use language to bash the poor
If the National Party spent as much energy on redefining language to escape having to acknowledge the poverty their policies create on actually helping the poor, then they would have solved child poverty by now.
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CYFs torture children – just let that settle in for a moment
…we can blame policy all we like and yes these services are disgracefully underfunded but there are human beings who are committing this torture.
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Idiot Windbag: Mike Hosking On Democracy
What did Hosking say? Well, he was giving us the benefit of his deep insight and wisdom concerning the recent local government elections. This is what he said: