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This week National's cruel beneficiary bashing inclinations came to the fore. It announced a three strike styled sanction regime on beneficiaries who break new rules. Possible repercussions include money management by the use of electronic cards and benefit reductions. To add to this National is…
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Labour has finally managed to capture the media's attention, this time with a full on attack on racist campaigning that the right have been engaged in. On Wednesday night at the leader's debate he blindsided Christopher Luxon by reading out something that a New Zealand…
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From Action Station's Triple the Vote campaign ________________________________________________________________ We can turn the tide on this election. If you triple your vote, we triple our power to protect people and planet. It’s go time. How it works Sign up as a vote tripler Commit to getting three friends…
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Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog Earlier this year Andrew Marr wrote in the New Statesmen, that Britain's problem was that it wanted Scandinavian levels of Public Services and North American levels of taxation. His view was that Britain was overdue for an honest debate…
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There is this sense that what looked inevitable a couple of weeks ago, a National Act Government following the election, is now not such a clear cut thing. Leading up to the election National and its puppet proxies had accumulated a huge war chest funded…
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I wrote a month ago about the Greens polling at 12%, which would give them 15 Green MPs, up from their current 10. It looked to me that the political courage of the Greens is working. Unlike the chaos of the 2017 election that followed…
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Yesterday morning in a 7 am social media dump Christopher Luxon finally announced what we have all known for ages and that was he would pick up the phone and ring Winston if National needed NZ First support. Here is the clip. https://twitter.com/chrisluxonmp/status/1706004185660145737 The method…
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Press release from the Green Party by James Shaw 23/9/23 _______________________________________________________________ Green Party co leader James Shaw attended a South Dunedin Future street meeting today to discuss local responses to climate change. “The extreme weather events that Aotearoa has seen this year have been supercharged by…
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New Zealand politics has been waiting with baited breath for National to release its methodology about how its tax on foreign purchasers (excluding Australians and Singaporeans and possibly Chinese) of luxury homes homes worth more than $2 million could earn $715 million in the first…
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It was a very interesting week this week. Statistics NZ shot a whole lot of National's advertising down by revising GDP growth figures so that the previous quarter was stable, thereby meaning New Zealand did not actually go into recession. There was actually no recession…
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The recent leader's debate was really frustrating. Not only did Christopher Luxon get way more time than Chris Hipkins but it felt to me that his presentation on various issues were up to the edge of what is true. TVNZ has engaged a group of…
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The growth figures are up and National operatives will be in despair. Not only did the economy grow considerably faster than anticipated in the last quarter at 0.9% but the previous quarter's figure has been resolved from -0.1% to 0%, a small but significant change.…
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A year ago this month, the Liz Truss/Kwasi Kwarteng mini-budget destroyed once and for all the myth that the Tories are better at managing the economy. The New Zealand National Party could not even wait until they were in government to prove the same applies…
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