Written By: - Date published: 11:13 am, August 25th, 2012 - 26 comments
Key’s claim that illegal euthanasia is happening in NZ has sparked outraged denials from medical professionals. But Key, of course, is not backing down. Once he’s opened his mouth he knows that he knows best.
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, August 25th, 2012 - 25 comments
David Parker got stuck in to the Nats last week, with a 30 page report that laid bare National’s appalling economic record, and presented an outline of Labour’s alternatives. Good work from Parker – everyone should read it.
Written By: - Date published: 12:55 pm, August 23rd, 2012 - 50 comments
The exodus to Australia is at record levels. Falling wages have seen social inequality rise to record levels. Good job National.
Written By: - Date published: 10:33 am, August 23rd, 2012 - 53 comments
Key owes it to the families to provide them with an explanation as to what purpose remaining in Afghanistan serves.
Written By: - Date published: 11:50 am, August 21st, 2012 - 20 comments
Decile ratings of schools are to be dropped from ERO reports because they are “confusing” and “unfair” and lead to “white flight”. Unlike, say, ropey national standards data. Uh huh.
Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, August 20th, 2012 - 9 comments
Structural discrimination is alive and well in NZ. It makes nonsense of all the right-wing “one law for all” and beneficiary bashing rhetoric.
Written By: - Date published: 10:41 am, August 19th, 2012 - 183 comments
Ecuador is giving us lessons in sovereign independence.
Written By: - Date published: 10:09 am, August 18th, 2012 - 69 comments
Hey Labour – here’s three words for you. Fair, inclusive, positive. You’ll win the next election, and the two after that.
Written By: - Date published: 9:04 am, August 17th, 2012 - 22 comments
Collins can’t credibly call for zero tolerance on privacy breaches while working alongside a Minister who has not only breached privacy, but is unrepentant, and boasting that she might do it again. Bennett has breached the Privacy Act – what is she doing still in cabinet? The Nats have no credibility while she remains.
Written By: - Date published: 9:08 am, August 15th, 2012 - 36 comments
Minister after Minister denied it, but it turns out that common sense is right. Private power companies charge more. Privatisation surely means that prices will rise. Is it even news when this government lies these days?
Written By: - Date published: 12:46 pm, August 12th, 2012 - 163 comments
It has been an interesting week for the leaders of the two main parties – one I think that they would both rather forget.
Written By: - Date published: 9:16 am, August 11th, 2012 - 33 comments
How to explain National’s blatant inconsistency in not requiring national standards for charter schools? After further reflection, I think it makes sense after all…
Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, August 10th, 2012 - 43 comments
Turns out that not many “mums and dads” are planning to buy shares in their own assets.
Written By: - Date published: 7:39 am, August 10th, 2012 - 143 comments
A somewhat meandering and personal response to the disillusioned, prompted by Scott Yorke’s recent “Why I’m Out”.
Written By: - Date published: 3:30 pm, August 9th, 2012 - 67 comments
Unemployment is up, and the real situation is worse than the figures suggest. Just how many more years of the Nats’ economic “genius” do you want NZ?
Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, August 8th, 2012 - 30 comments
The Libor banking scandal has grown into a full fledged international crisis. Just another example of the rot at the heart of capitalism.
Written By: - Date published: 12:26 pm, August 7th, 2012 - 28 comments
As usual it is the kids who will suffer.
Written By: - Date published: 3:40 pm, August 6th, 2012 - 106 comments
At around 5:30pm this evening Curiosity will either touch down safely on Mars, or make (another) expensive smudge on the surface. Various links below – tune in. Good luck Curiosity…
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, August 6th, 2012 - 11 comments
Hey John – where’s our “Brighter Future”? Hey National voters – was this what you voted for?
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, August 5th, 2012 - 45 comments
No one can fix the tail of educational underachievement without fixing poverty.
Written By: - Date published: 9:40 am, August 4th, 2012 - 22 comments
For some reason the Nats are in a hurry to complete their privatisation programme within two years. Anyone in any doubt as to how the process of consultation with Maori will play out might be informed by some recent history.
Written By: - Date published: 8:22 am, August 3rd, 2012 - 215 comments
The right hand of National’s education policy doesn’t know what the far-right hand is up to…
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, August 2nd, 2012 - 38 comments
Although Key’s privatisation programme has hit plenty of problems with Maori water rights, his job is made a whole lot easier by the luxury of an ethical main opposition party.
Written By: - Date published: 1:52 pm, August 1st, 2012 - 37 comments
The bill for the Nats’ Auckland “supercity” is arriving in ratepayers’ letterboxes. Some are in for a nasty shock…
Written By: - Date published: 9:51 am, August 1st, 2012 - 83 comments
There aren’t many climate skeptics whose opinions can be affected by mere evidence, so hats off to Richard Muller.
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 am, July 30th, 2012 - 90 comments
Yet more evidence that women are the smarter sex.
Written By: - Date published: 11:41 am, July 29th, 2012 - 56 comments
Matt McCarten doesn’t pull any punches, comparing Banks to both Phillip Field and Winston Peters.
Written By: - Date published: 9:17 am, July 28th, 2012 - 181 comments
What possible reason is there to deny a couple marriage? With luck the only dissenting voices will be isolated extremists like Colin Craig.
Written By: - Date published: 12:14 pm, July 27th, 2012 - 49 comments
Regular as clockwork the suggestion that police should be armed keeps coming back.
Written By: - Date published: 1:58 pm, July 26th, 2012 - 38 comments
Remember all the fuss in 2008 when the Labour government tried to make a 1% increase charges affecting truckies? What kind of catastrophic response will increases of up to 20% provoke?
Written By: - Date published: 10:59 am, July 26th, 2012 - 45 comments
Gosh, isn’t government austerity working well in Britain. Thank goodness we’re following in their footsteps.
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