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This is the Start Wars movie you have to see if you’re a believer, and you want to believe. It will tempt you to feel that no matter how low the odds of success against overwhelming force, your cause is just so you must continue.…
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A month ago Labour announced that Sir Michael Cullen would chair the tax working group and the National Party was cock-a-hoop! Steven Joyce said: “Sir Michael is many things but a politically independent voice on taxation policy he is not,” Judith Collins had fun with…
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Matt Nippert has made further startling revelations about Jian Yang. Yang is the National backbench MP who it was revealed just before the election lectured at an elite Chinese spy school before moving to New Zealand and who attracted the interest of our Security Intelligence Service. Despite concerns…
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The Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill introduced into Parliament is intended to: - Introduce a medicinal cannabis scheme to enable access to quality products - Introduce a statutory defence for terminally ill people to possess and use illicit cannabis - Remove cannabidiol from the schedule…
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On the 13th, the government recently withdrew several of its own Members' bills, with no guarantee their replacements wouldn't be Opposition bills, (luck was with Labour and NZ First backbenchers, however, and those two parties won all three new bill drawings) in order to advance…
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For a party that used to be the feared promulgators of dirty politics and whose proxies attacked and smeared critics and opponents mercilessly National's latest efforts generated a huge feeling of Meh. Exhibit one is the brand new website LetsUndoThis. It is owned by the…
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Unlike Germany, New Zealand is a tiny country in which little of note occurs. But we are both successful societies, with proportional democracies, strong economies, underpinned by strong public institutions and legal frameworks, and consistently believe that we are going in the right direction. New…
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From Green Party MP Gareth Hughes at blog.greens.org.nz If you were asked “that the question is that the question be now put”, or “that the part stand apart”, would you understand? If you heard someone “seek leave…
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https://twitter.com/melulater/status/942940414671077376 The BSA summary: During an item on Seven Sharp, broadcast on 23 August 2017 during the election period, the presenters discussed TVNZ’s ‘Vote Compass’, a tool available to assist the New Zealand public to make voting decisions. In response to comments by presenter Toni…
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With much arohanui and respect for the current Government can I suggest it has a good hard think about its approach to future mining for oil gas or coal, particularly coal. Jacinda Ardern is right that climate change is her generation's nuclear free movement. We…
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Why does this era of U.S. politics feel so different to any other in our lifetime? The answer is that President Trump’s leadership and policy actions are revolutionising both their public realm into something smaller, weaker, and harder, and also giving themselves over to the…
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Initially, I thought I'd go through the "Adapting to Climate Change in New Zealand"(pdf) report and pick out some of the more obvious shortcomings it was bound to contain. (Some big whoppers there btw.) But as I read it, I started to think more of the bigger…
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What was the most significant political event last week? Clearly it was the mini budget and the Labour-NZ First-Green Government's intention to get tens of thousands of kiwi kids out of poverty so their chances of living a rewarding life are significantly increased. Most commentators…
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I don’t often admit that there is anything that the right do better than the left, but, credit where it’s due, there are a few things. Chief amongst them are dog whistling and wedge politics. These are calculated political silencing tactics that use language…
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Idiot/Savant's blog post on submitting on the euthanasia bill: ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, December 15, 2017 Submit! The Justice Committee has called for submissions on the End of Life Choice Bill, you can either submit using the online form linked above, or by sending two copies to:…
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For much of the week the decision seemed to be an easy one to make. It was going to be Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for the Alabama seat in the senate. In the deepest of red states it should have been a cake walk…
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The media response to the Labour-Green-New Zealand First has been remarkably positive. After nine long years someone is finally taking the scourge of child poverty seriously. Audrey Young in the Herald was ecstatic. For a package in which there were really no surprises, the Labour-led…
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Today is a great test for our Labour-led government. It’s the release of a mini-budget set well in advance of the main budget set for May 2018. This advanced timing sets the government into a much faster pace of delivery than otherwise. You will all…
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https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/940623927809847301 https://twitter.com/PriceofOil/status/940614490399432704 ________________________________________________________________________________ Oil Change International Press Release At One Planet Summit, the World Bank steals the show by phasing out upstream oil and gas finance PARIS, FRANCE — At the One Planet Summit in Paris, France, the World Bank announced, among other positive steps, that they “will…
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