“This election is a pivotal one. We have a choice between maintaining the status quo or building a bright green future for everyone in our community; between divisiveness or solidarity; between quibbling over the definition of “crisis” or taking real action to address the cost of living, housing, climate change and environmental exploitation.”
In Year Eight of this National government, the idea of a budget surplus is a joke. They’ve promised it for nearly a decade. They’ve fiddled the books. The truth is, there is no surplus.
It’s year 8 of a National/ACT government and things are looking pretty bleak. And it’s really, really easy to spin down into a spiral of bleakness and anxiety. But we can make it through.
Since first posting Who should you vote for? a week ago I’ve been directed to even more endorsement lists and voting guides for local body candidates up and down the country. So if you still don’t know who to vote for, check them out.
All the local body election endorsements you could possibly want.
This week has been a revelation in how willing Pākehā are to throw Māori under the bus for the sake of environmentalism.
The Dominion Post has received not one, but two polls on the Wellington mayoralty. So who’s coming out on top?
An old handle flickered back into life briefly this afternoon: In 2014 I dumped: https://t.co/UhZSYEYyar — Whaledump2 (@whaledump2) September 14, 2016 Rawshark – presuming […]
Cross-posted from Boots Theory. Where to start with Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Don’t Buy It: The Trouble With Talking Nonsense About The Economy? This review […]
Who will be the big winners from Andrew Little’s caucus reshuffle – and who will be the big players taking Labour into the 2017 election?
UPDATED: With new rankings/portfolios and media release.
What to do with these ballot papers that just arrived in the mail?
Previously posted at Boots Theory. Content note: discussion of sexual violence and the experience of survivors. Yesterday I did a round-up of the […]
The question of identity politics and Labour’s direction just never go away. But maybe we’re just thinking about it all wrong.
Who would have suspected that Michael Woodhouse would be completely ineffectual in cracking down on zero-hour contracts?
It turns out Labour does have a good set of principles – why don’t we know more about them?
What does it actually mean when we say “my values are Labour’s values”?
That’s not my headline. That’s Stuff’s business section’s headline.
The term “tone argument” refers to the regular pleas directed at feminists, anti-racism activists, etc to stop being so aggressive and ask nicely for fundamental human rights and dignity instead of shouting so much. It’s a derailment, a troll move, a way to undermine and ignore the actual arguments being made.
The Labour Party has had a sneak peek at the process our government is using to pick “providers” for its mercenary social impact bonds scheme, and it’s like something off television.
Beyond discrimination against women, there’s a broader set of assumptions we make about work and workers, and it’s hurting us – workers, society, and business.
It’s 2015, and we’re constantly told that sexism is over, feminism has had its day – so why can’t this woman find a job?
Whenever unionists talk about the bad employers who put profit over people’s lives, the right wave it away as fear-mongering. Well, here it is straight from the horse’s mouth.
This is the true irony of National governments. Their entire platform is one of “fiscal responsibility” and “good economic management” yet time and time again they spend money the way I did when I was a teenager: false economies and short-term wish fulfilment.
A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have.
One of the biggest political deceptions in our lifetime? Or just an honest mistake by our noble Finance Minister?
Two politicians with very similar names and practically identical, terrible excuses for their lies. But does it mean the honeymoon’s over for John Key?
This week is Wellington Rape Crisis’ annual appeal.
One of these principled statements is not like the other.
A brief numbers-y overview of what your honoured authors have gotten up to since September.
Everyone else is giving their reckons on the treatment of ANZAC Day this year, as we commemorate the centenary of the first year of World War I. So here are mine.
When the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety doesn’t know the first thing about his portfolio, there’s only one option left: he’s lying.
Is anyone else experiencing a bit of political shellshock?
Michael Woodhouse is talking tough on bad employers … but what does it really mean, coming from this government?
In times of trouble for the National Party, you can always rely on them to raise the rallying cry of “Personal responsibility!!!”
Cotton On has become the first employer in the news for trying to take away its workers’ rest breaks.
All these National backbenchers with delusions of grandeur sound the same to me …
