Greens’ 10 year anniversary
The Green Party celebrated 10 years in the New Zealand Parliament yesterday. Happy birthday! It was especially fitting that the anniversary coincided with […]
Guest post
Goff at DL – a socialist review
Below Omar of Socialist Aotearoa gives his impressions of Phil Goff at Drinking Liberally in Auckland earlier this week. On an unrelated note, isn’t […]
Shame on you
Never in the history of New Zealand politics has so much taxpayers’ money been hurled into the chasm with such contempt for the […]
Softly, softly treatment for militant employers
The continuing wave of lockouts continues to go unremarked by the government, the opposition and the media. Over the past few months there […]
Vote red, get fed
Labour needs to stand up for its electorate, the worker. While National is gutting the infrastructure Labour set up in the last nine […]
Climate Change: The Looney Lord Responds
Rob Salmond The other day I posted a critique of Lord Monckton’s recent presentation, which purports to show that global warming is not […]
Unbridled power
The government and the Police are spinning all the new security measures as a national security matter and a crack-down ONLY on the […]
Climate Change: Looney Tunes from Lord Monckton
Rob Salmond In attempting to cover for DPF’s embarrassing disaster of a post on climate change, in his comments section some prominent right wingers […]
NZ’s capitalists dream of absolute power
From Stuff: “Richlister Alan Gibbs will host former National Party leader Don Brash and ACT founder Sir Roger Douglas to discuss what they […]
Get back to work!
The reprieve from the rain may have been the only thing worth celebrating this Labour Day. Probably pissed that there isn’t a holiday […]
Guest post: polling hypocrisy
I read John Key’s criticism of Labour’s polling methods with a smiling interest. It’s not a good look is it, for a political […]
Reflections on the ERA
There’s been a fair bit of coverage of John Key’s use of the CTU conference to divide and rule over wages and announce […]
The moral centre
I thought I would take the time to point out this excellent article by Tapu Misa. It has gone with out saying that […]
Reflections on Aisling
Two readers offer their reflections on our collective reaction to the Aisling Symes tragedy: The Best of Us, The Worst of Us, revealed […]
Yeah, but who are the criminals?
I think I might have joined the dots in what it is that is causing me such unease about the arrival of Crime […]
The Bridgeman Concrete lockout ends successfully
The Bridgeman Concrete workers locked out for nine days hardened their picket last week. Two concrete trucks couldn’t leave the depo, costing the company $3,000 […]
Twyford and the idiocy of pacifism
I have to agree with Tim Selwyn in his criticism of Phil Twyford’s peace about Moriori pacifism. Twyford writes on Red Alert: Moriori […]
Closing time for Banks
There is an astounding editorial in today’s business newspaper The Independent (not online) titled Foolish idea spirited away. Commenting on the recent 11pm […]
World Vegetarian Day October 1st
I’m a vegetarian and today, October 1st, is the worldwide day to celebrate the benefits of not eating meat and the healthy contribution […]
Electoral finance: the proposal document that didn’t
Rob Salmond Yesterday Simon Power released the Government’s Proposal Document about how to reform electoral finance. On the easy issues, he got it […]
Dispatches from the parallel universe, John Key 1940
The Standard, 12 June 1940 WELLINGTON Prime Ministerial candidate for the Nationalists, Mr John Key, today laid out his party’s policy regarding New […]
Productivity Czar’s latest initiative
Leaked emails from the National Government’s Productivity Task Force have confirmed rumours circulating in senior journalist circles that the Tooth Fairy is to […]
Banks bullshits on North Shore – shows up Bhatnager as a hypocrite
This week John Banks took his faltering super mayoralty campaign to the Takapuna Rotary Club on Auckland’s North Shore. Banks tried to butter […]
Open Country now assaulting workers
The Talleys-owned Open Country Cheese dispute took a new turn today after it was revealed that a senior manager, not content with just […]
Fed farmers frothing
A virulent attack on Greenpeace in a press release by Federated Farmers president, Don Nicholson, convinces me that Greenpeace are hitting the mark. […]
Labour Grasps Nettle: Nettles Usually Sting
By Rob Salmond It sounds like Phil G did a great job at Labour’s conference setting out where the party should go from […]
Close the loopholes
I am heartened that Phil Goff is trying to work with the Government to address over-investment in residential property. However, I think a […]
Welfare for whom?
Remember the iconic photos of the first Labour Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage and his cabinet celebrating the introduction of State Housing by […]
Currency too high, recovery could falter – Fed Farmers
“I’d really like to know what Treasury is on for it to be so bullish about the economy, as it must be good […]
Who is Kate Wilkinson taking aim at?
By John Ryall, SFWU National Secretary While The Standard readers know that the air traffic controllers were the excuse that Kate Wilkinson used […]
Wanganui: a Laws unto itself
The Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Act 2009, which prohibits the display of gang insignia in a public place, so clearly infringes of […]
Does John Key believe a word he says?
This 2007 quote from John Key is doing the rounds among angry “No” voters: Labour shows contempt for New Zealanders The Labour Government […]
Foodstuffs: Voluntary regulation fails
I find myself in the curious position of sympathising with a company reneging on an environmental promise. Foodstuffs announced yesterday that the charge […]
“Science”
ACT Party Press Release 1/4/2010: ACT has now identified the number one threat to personal freedom, to unbounded economic growth and to vast […]
Two referendum editorials
In the aftermath of the “smacking” referendum I was struck (as I often am lately) by the range in quality of editorial / […]
To my friend
We haven’t talked lately and that has partly been my fault. Just doesn’t seem that we share as much in common now that […]