Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, September 25th, 2016 - 248 comments
Rodney Hide continues to provide extreme analysis free right wing ramblings courtesy of the Herald. Is it time for them to reintroduce a left wing columnist?
Written By: - Date published: 7:55 am, September 25th, 2016 - 294 comments
Jeremy Corbyn has won a resounding victory in the UK Labour Leadership campaign. But what happens now?
Written By: - Date published: 7:52 am, September 24th, 2016 - 42 comments
A suggested settlement proposal to resolve the Williams v Craig case which may achieve some good.
Written By: - Date published: 9:09 am, September 20th, 2016 - 88 comments
Donald Trump has now finally accepted publicly that Barak Obama was born in America. But claims that Hillary was the cause of the birther theory.
Written By: - Date published: 4:02 pm, September 19th, 2016 - 74 comments
National’s latest plan to do something about the housing crisis is to buy a Motel and kick families who stay there out on the street.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, September 18th, 2016 - 31 comments
It is local government election time. If you want to vote for progressive candidates these are some suggestions.
Written By: - Date published: 9:14 am, September 14th, 2016 - 123 comments
It appears that Parliamentary Services is monitoring MPs emails. And not just for things such as spam and viruses.
Written By: - Date published: 2:43 pm, September 13th, 2016 - 186 comments
Labour has released its latest UMR polling which shows a dramatically different result to that of the latest Colmar Brunton poll.
Written By: - Date published: 8:45 am, September 13th, 2016 - 65 comments
* at least according to David Seymour.
Written By: - Date published: 8:46 am, September 12th, 2016 - 139 comments
Figures provided by the Government to Labour suggest that providing accommodation for families with chronic housing needs is taking much longer than it did six months ago. But Paula Bennett has replied by suggesting that the figures do not reflect reality.
Written By: - Date published: 8:52 am, September 11th, 2016 - 36 comments
Reporter Eugene Bingham who broke the story on how Papakura police were doctoring crime statistics by recoding burglaries as other offences two years ago has written about how his attempts to get to the truth of the matter has effectively been thwarted by the police.
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 am, September 8th, 2016 - 111 comments
It may have been brief and passing but yesterday National lost control of Parliament. And it was all their own fault.
Written By: - Date published: 4:38 pm, September 6th, 2016 - 13 comments
Nick Smith has introduced a bill into Parliament which he wants to be passed under urgency without select committee oversight. The bill takes away the right of any prior owner of land taken under the Public Works Act to have housing land offered back to them. To do this under urgency is banana republic stuff.
Written By: - Date published: 9:08 am, September 5th, 2016 - 53 comments
Rumours suggesting that Shane Jones will stand for New Zealand First in Whangarei at the next election have resurfaced.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, September 4th, 2016 - 29 comments
I attended the Living Wage People’s assembly this week in St Matthews in the City. The idea behind the meeting was to get Mayoral and Waitemata ward candidates to express their views on the living wage proposal as well as improved public transport services and rental accommodation standards. The organiser was Living Wage Aotearoa who have been […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:35 am, August 30th, 2016 - 32 comments
John Key has used some very dodgy figures to claim that the housing crisis was worse under Labour than it is now.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, August 27th, 2016 - 17 comments
It has been over a year since the Auditor General announced an inquiry into the circumstances around Sheepgate. Why has it taken so long?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, August 23rd, 2016 - 36 comments
Someone in Hamilton thinks that someone who wears a turban must be an ISIS supporting terrorist.
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, August 19th, 2016 - 64 comments
The Government is refusing to accept there are legal issues with Kiwisaver providers investing in manufacturers of cluster bombs. But it is also not ruling out there may be a problem.
Written By: - Date published: 2:31 pm, August 15th, 2016 - 10 comments
David Shearer has criticised the Australian Government as having lost its “moral compass” in relation to the Nauru Asylum Detention Centre.
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, August 14th, 2016 - 15 comments
Savea Peseta Al Harrington Lavea, Auckland Future candidate for the Whau Local Board, shares an unfortunate similarity with David Garrett.
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, August 13th, 2016 - 5 comments
Auckland Future’s campaign has struck problems with candidates being nominated for the wrong positions, multiple right wing candidates running for the same positions and questions over whether the vetting of candidates has been as optimal as could be hoped for.
Written By: - Date published: 7:39 am, August 10th, 2016 - 163 comments
In Parliament yesterday John Key showed a clear lack of understanding of what being poor in New Zealand entails.
Written By: - Date published: 8:31 am, August 5th, 2016 - 130 comments
Labour has announced that it will review tax exemptions for landlords achieved through negative gearing.
Written By: - Date published: 11:10 am, August 2nd, 2016 - 139 comments
The Government has agreed to pay $925,000 compensation to David Bain, not for wrongful conviction but as an ex gratia payment for the flaws in the compensation process.
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, August 2nd, 2016 - 43 comments
The European Union is considering sanctions against New Zealand for operating as a tax haven and the proposed reforms by John Sherwin may not be enough.
Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, August 1st, 2016 - 9 comments
The Unitary Plan has been described as a panacea for the housing crisis by the Government. But will it actually address this most acute of issues?
Written By: - Date published: 7:53 am, July 30th, 2016 - 161 comments
As the temperatures increase and the sea rises Chris de Freitas still claims that anthropogenic climate change is not a happening thing. And shows his inability to analyze by misinterpreting a Jarrod Gilbert article which describes climate change deniers as charlatans.
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, July 26th, 2016 - 56 comments
John Key has thrown Todd McClay under a bus and blamed him for dancing on the head of a pin and for no one telling Key that our second major trading nation wanted to dump sub standard steel on the local market.
Written By: - Date published: 12:46 pm, July 25th, 2016 - 28 comments
According to Health Minister Jonathan Coleman he is right, everyone else is wrong and there is no elective surgery hidden list in New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 pm, July 21st, 2016 - 79 comments
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