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TOP released its Youth to Adult Unconditional Basic Income policy a while back. It aims to give every 18 - 23 yr old $200/wk and for that income to be unconditional. You don't have to apply, and you can spend it on what you want,…
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We've been neglecting team WMBAD recently (sorry!) - but they're out there doing great work. Great work like explaining why everyone should get on out there and vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-O4h7oByT8
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Gordon Campbell on Werewolf sets out ten reasons not to vote National: Ten Reasons For Not Voting National Three more years of business as usual is the real risk. by Gordon Campbell ...the last time Labour was in power it ran eight straight years of…
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James Shaw said at the policy launch that over half of New Zealanders rent and deserve the same standard of housing as owners. So the Greens have a bold addition to their housing policies. From the press release, Greens announce plan to make every house…
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I finally had some time to delve into recent statistics for the site. Apart from the usual election year rise of the readership, the demographics have been moving a lot. The most noticeable statistic in the recent months has been to do with gender. Google…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Note: I had a look last night and this morning and could find very little in the MSM about the environmental impact of the spill. Morning Report interviewed the CEO of Refining NZ, who said that the regional council were satisfied with the initial recovery.…
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The farmers' protest in Morrinsville today unfortunately shows that we have made no progress in the 15 years since Bill English attacked the wrong PM with his "mad cow" insult. Meanwhile the effects of climate change have got worse, our options for dealing with it…
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I see that David Farrar, the National parties favourite polling poodle, is trying to spin up the old line about politicians not being business people. He is a blithering idiot. As a died in the wool private sector advocate who only works in the private…
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The irony election just went into overdrive. https://twitter.com/sonyapryr/status/909369907644555264 https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/909281656980127745 Peak Oil theory is an analysis of the relationship between the peak in fossil fuel production, time, energy returned on energy invested, and the global economy. It's not about running out of oil reserves in the…
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This has been a strange election campaign, unlike any I can think of. Four weeks ago it was meant to be a walk in the park for National. A coronation of Prime Minister Bill English as he swept all aside. And Labour in disarray. But…
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Excellent Q+A interviews with political leaders yesterday (transcript of Ardern, transcript of English). This summary of the English interview gets right to the point: English raises prospect of slaughtered cows, depopulated cities National leader BM English defended his party's attack ads during an appearance on…
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Young people of NZ, it's your election, if you want it. Jack Tame: Millennials - just get out and vote ... More than 200,000 eligible voters under the age of 30 didn't vote in the last election. Under-30s had the lowest turnout of any block.…
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Thread: https://twitter.com/Ellipsister/status/908984286098874368 Press release at scoop.co.nz: Electoral Commission Undermining of Maori Rights Saturday, 16 September 2017, 8:13 pm Press Release: Veronica Tawhai MEDIA RELEASE Saturday 16th September 2017 For immediate release Electoral Commission Undermining of Maori Rights – Complaints Nationwide Only a week into early…
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Rod Oram at Newsroom: Rod Oram: ‘Why new leaders and policies are needed’ ... National’s track record: It came to power in November 2008 at the height of the Global Financial Crisis. It was singularly unprepared for the job. It had spent the previous nine…
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This post by Invercargill Green Party campaign manager Dave Kennedy is republished with permission from localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.co.nz This has probably been the most dramatic election campaign that I have experienced in almost 40 years of voting. As with most elections, the media focusses on the drama rather…
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The system of enrolling to vote is is more streamlined this election. Eligible voters can enrol and vote at the same time as long as it is before voting day. There is a problem for progressive parties because far too many young people are not…
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https://twitter.com/robellcampbin/status/908922412774825984 Green Party Spokesperson for Trade, Barry Coates, writes about National's latest moves on the TPPA: In the two days before the election, New Zealand MFAT negotiators will attend a negotiations meeting in Japan on the successor to the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), now…
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Great read in London today - full page Guardian article headlined "I've got what it takes, says the charismatic Labour leader taking New Zealand by storm." Send it far and wide. Some choice quotes: Every stage of this job that I've been in, I've simply…
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I suspect that a few progressives' screens this morning had blobs of coffee sprayed all over them as they read John Armstrong's attempt to derail the Jacinda juggernaut through the power of his words. The only problem is his words now have little force and…
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From my perspective, what follows represents the ground on either side of a deliberate fissure or divide or fracture in NZ society/culture that's been brought about by the fear that is an inevitable political component of Liberal economic ideology. Theotherside's original comment and responses to…
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Martin van Beynen has been touring the country. He's of English's generation, but he can feel the winds of change blowing. Martin van Beynen: A changing of the guard is on the way ... As the Kingswood Election Tour winds its way up the North…
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RNZ have been covering a story this week about an Auckland branch of nationwide secondhand clothing business Save Mart. The story started midweek with descriptions of work conditions, Save Mart workers told Checkpoint last night they had to sift through clothing bins containing soiled nappies, broken…
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Guest post from @Invisiphilia On last Saturday’s episode of The Hui, Mahinarangi Forbes interviewed 'Ngā Wāhine Mōrehu' - four female survivors of physical, sexual and psychological abuse endured as children in state care. I watched it online on Sunday and felt so choked up after…
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Watch Jacinda Ardern on the Nats' nasty negative campaign - and the huge problems for New Zealand that they want to distract you from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFL368UGINY Check it out on Labour's web site with options to share. Bonus Michael Cullen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6g3cFeX_mc Bonus Jacinda Ardern at Otago…
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Saturday 16 Sept 2.30pm, Otara Town Centre, South Auckland. Let's all come together to rally for our communities that have been at the forefront on the fight to end poverty. Now, more than ever, we need to continue the conversation that Metiria started. We know…
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