Chauvel on loan sharks
No Right Turn has published an excellent guest post from Labour MP Charles Chauvel about his private member’s bill to stamp out loan […]
notices and features
Something cool
Werewolf, new from Gordon Campbell and friends.
Boniface hits the mark
From Linley Boniface in the Dom 0n Monday: …My kids love hearing about the teacher who used to soak his strap in warm […]
Fight for Auckland’s local democracy
Red Alert, the Labour MPs’ blog, has a list of upcoming meetings on the supercity. Mt Albert – 5.30pm Tuesday 9 June, Owairaka […]
Political Chicanery
The Irascible Curmudgeon writes some really good posts. So without apology we republish this little gem on spin and the art of re-writing […]
Three down
Six months in and John Key has broken three of his eleven “personal guarantees”. Impressive. Click on the image for full size.
The best part of The Onion
Is the fake editorial cartoons. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between them and the Herald’s:
Is this Rodney?
From Darren Watson.. For those who don’t follow Star-trek, click the image.
The Dishonest Budget
Thanks to a reader, here’s Phil Goff’s speech in reply to the Budget. Looks like they’ve ripped the Herald’s version, so for the […]
The black budget report
This post will be updated by the Standardistas as the details of the Budget come out. If you have special knowledge of a […]
Drinking Liberally Wgtn – tonight
Apologies for the late notice – Drinking Liberally Wellington is on tonight with guest Rob Salmond. Usual time, usual place. From the Facebook […]
More Mt Albert silliness
Nothing tops a lamington on the head, but still, here’s Mt Albert candidate Jackson Wood pounding the streets of Wellington to drum up […]
Resistance Photography
Some great photos from yesterday’s hikoi from Squirrel. Click the thumbnails below to view photos, or see the whole set at the Resistance […]
Reader photos
Thanks to a reader for sending in these photos from today’s hikoi: If anyone else has photos or youtube send them in and […]
Hikoi video
The Herald Online has some great video from today’s hikoi here and here, and some photos here. The videos really are worth a […]
Hikoi route
Tumeke has put together this handy map of tomorrow’s hikoi with the meeting places across Auckland. You can view the full size version […]
The Pork industry, circa 1860
Join the Super City hikoi
IHI Aotearoa has put out the call for Aucklanders to join their hikoi against the Government’s undemocratic Super City proposal on Monday, May […]
Drinking Liberally Auckland
Join all your favourite lefty liberal drinkers at Drinking Liberally Auckland When: 7pm, Wednesday 20 May Where: Galatos, 17 Galatos Street, Newton (just […]
Direct action against SH20 motorway begins
Protesters calling for the Government to abandon its plans to drive an above-ground motorway through the middle of Mt Albert disrupted the opening […]
Bake a cake for the LWR workers
A great initiative from the National Distribution Union: With the bank (Westpac) leaving Lane Walker Rudkin workers out in the cold without their […]
The Defence Act is a dead letter
No Right Turn wrote a post on an important point of governance that needs more discussion. Reproduced with Idiot/Savant’s permission. Last week, we […]
Bad Request
A reader writes: This cracked me up. When I went to look at the press release about John Key’s cycleway, this is what […]
Classic
From the Herald’s Your Views on Waterview: HammerHead (Wellington City): No they should replace it with a cycleway. This would prevent criminals coming […]
Stand up for pay equity
Green MP Catherine Delahunty is running an e-card campaign to support public sector pay equity after National announced it would be cancelling pay […]
New rules
Makes you wish we had some good political satire here.
Clean Start rally – Thursday
If you’re in Auckland on Thursday pop along to this in your lunch hour and help support low-paid cleaners: Hat tip: The Hand […]
Blerta
Di Mackey of Woman Wandering had this video in a post. Looks like someone had a lot of fun making the video to […]
New Left blog
Red Alert, a blog by Labour MPs. A good idea – the blog format allows for a lot more freedom than the press […]
The challenges for the Mt Albert candidates
Bit of a group effort this one. John Boscawen MP – Boscawen is mad as a hatter and pretty damn ignorant. So he […]
New Kiwi blog
Zealgirl, a blog from a Zeal flight attendant involved in the current industrial dispute at Air New Zealand. [Hat tip: The Hand Mirror]
Say goodbye to Nanny State
Stepfather State’s taken over. Our new parent likes to keep his distance…he usually comes home after work at the office…but only for a […]
Seriously good fun
Fox firing at will
From Finsec’s blog, …the gossip: Fox TV is taking television to a new low with a new show with the working title Someone’s […]
Meeting tonight on Super City
From Just Left: Tonight – Freemans Bay Community Centre – the Western Bays Community Board is holding a meeting from 6.30pm to discuss […]
Drinking Liberally Auckland – the future of Auckland governance
Join all your favourite lefty liberal drinkers at Drinking Liberally Auckland When: 7pm, Wednesday 29 April Where: London Bar – corner Queen and […]