Safety nets should be for all people and the best way to ensure that is to design them for social need not as economic tools. Despite Gareth Morgan’s assertion that policy is everything, The Opportunities Party has managed to create a youth policy that is discriminatory.
This isn’t what we meant by keep it in the ground.
First Union members working at Save Mart were given notice yesterday after complaints this week were made about health and safety conditions and interviews showing a culture of punishment and degradation.
Peters’ major election interview is a mess of epic proportions, and NZF’s own Pauline Hanson makes an iwi/kiwi speech.
Somewhere between complacency and losing hope there’s the mahi that still needs doing.
It’s a timely reminder that 12 days before the election Winston Peters has just reaffirmed the door is very much open to a coalition or Confidence and Supply agreement between National and NZF. If you want to change the government, a vote for NZF is a risk.
The Greens have a comprehensive, detailed plan for NZ on what to do about climate change that works through transforming the economy, ending poverty, and protecting the environment.
A strong Green Party presence in government is the best way to prevent the TPPA, and is critical in protecting NZ’s environment and social and political sovereignty.
There’s a direct relationship between how badly we treat mothers and how much we exalt neoliberalism.
Relentlessly positive will help us change the government. Then what?
23 days to go. We’re now this close to changing the government, and have a real chance at a truly progressive government with a Labour/Green coalition. For that we need strong Green representation.
Designing policy for a low carbon world and good lives, the Greens are standing strong in the need to act now on climate change.
All gratitude to Catherine Delahunty for this blazing speech.
It’s not just policy that is important. The fight of this election is over values and whether people matter too.
Another experimental post on The Standard, providing a discussion space for left-wing and progressive people only.
It’s ok to call Nazis Nazis.
They ran away from equal pay.
Can we please get on with the real mahi now?
Tips on helping people to enrol to vote.
Punitive welfare settles into a new low.
Ahead of the Green Party’s election campaign relaunch this afternoon, let’s get a few things straight about who and what the Green Party is.
It’s time to hear what poor people have to say about being poor.
Shaw in his own words on where the party is at.
An experimental post on The Standard, providing a discussion space for left-wing people only.
Metiria Turei speaks from the heart about how hard it is to be on welfare, and the need for a more compassionate, caring welfare system.
What decade are we in again?
“She’s got charm, she’s warm, she’s funny, she’s incredibly intelligent, her values are rock solid. I think you are looking at someone there who is going to change the fortunes of the Labour Party, lift the vote, and change the government.” – James Shaw.
Coalition partners in the wings, game on for the left.
This isn’t a set in stone election, it’s one that is in the midst of change, quite possibly big change. The Greens opened a door, what can we do to step through?
It’s time to put our money and resources where our hearts and minds and values are.
The deputy leader of the Labour Party wants to be the Minister for Children and to put a progressive government ahead of her own career. This is the kind of politician we need in government.
What to do with all the water falling from the sky? Some choices are smarter than others.
Let the campaign begin.
Turns out TOP might help form a 4th National government.
Climate scientists: Our conclusion that the world has overshot appropriate targets is sufficiently grim to compel us to point out that pathways to rapid emission reductions are feasible.
The first round of climate change pass-the-parcel is about to knock some players out of the property investment game. The rest of NZ should be paying attention.
