The Climate Debate Tues 7pm
Event at Auckland Uni and live streamed, the major political parties debate the climate with Rod Oram as MC.
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The failure of TOP’s Youth UBI policy
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.
Why you should vote – from a White Man Behind a Desk
It’s the kind of video that makes you go “what the fuck man. with one (1) eight minute video you convinced half of my “it’s my right to not vote and i hate politicians so Fuck Elections” friends to vote. i’ve been trying for weeks, and you put up a singular video on it and they’re persuaded.”
Campbell: Ten Reasons For Not Voting National
Gordon Campbell sets out ten reasons not to vote National. Well referenced and compelling. Standardistas may wish to add their own entries to the list.
“The Green Party is committed to reforming renting so that every house is a home”
People who rent should have security so they can put down roots and benefit from being able to participate in their community.
Farm protest mad cows and climate change
The farmers’ protest in Morrinsville today unfortunately shows that we have made no progress in the 15 years since Bill English attacked the wrong PM with his “mad cow” insult. Meanwhile the effects of climate change have got worse, our options for dealing with it have got fewer, and the Nats don’t want you to know about $19bn of NZ property at risk.
Fear and loathing in Aotearoa
It is difficult to understand National’s election campaign. Instead of campaigning on what they have achieved and what they plan to do they are using fear of Labour to try and win the election. And saying some palpably untrue things on the way.
When scaremongering becomes self-parody
According to English, in a revealing Q+A interview, Labour wants to “slaughter the dairy herd” and “depopulate the cities”. Why is he such a scared little man? Why doesn’t National have the confidence to run a positive campaign on its policies?
Get out the young vote!
If you can do one thing help New Zealand make the right choice for the future it is this – get out the young vote!
Electoral Commission Undermining of Māori Rights
Another election and another set of problems with the Crown’s running of the electoral process for Māori.
What vote will deliver the change we need…?
Dave Kennedy outlines the importance of party voting Green to ensure Labour has a strong progressive coalition partner in the next government.
This is how you change the Government – enrol and vote at the same time*
* option only available before election day.
National pushing through with secret TPP talks before the election
“This continues National’s desperation to see a TPPA at any cost”
The Herald reverts to type
John Armstrong has come out in the Herald swinging wildly and claiming without evidence that Jacinda Ardern’s campaign has stalled, and criticized her policy positions but because he thinks they are only a bit better than National’s.
van Beynen on the changing of the guard
Martin van Beynen has been touring the country: “I think Jacinda Ardern is going to win the election or at least get more of the party vote than National. And even if I am wrong about that, the ground has still shifted and what she represents is in the ascendant. If not this time, it will be the next.”
Ardern: Setting the record straight
Watch Jacinda Ardern on the Nats’ nasty negative campaign – and the huge problems for New Zealand that they want to distract you from.
Do you want to keep me in poverty?
If you want to know exactly how, then read on.
National candidates turn chicken
Out west National candidates are that afraid of their Labour conterparts they are refusing to attend public debates.
What’s up with NZF?
Peters’ major election interview is a mess of epic proportions, and NZF’s own Pauline Hanson makes an iwi/kiwi speech.
Polls – focus on the horse race misses the huge mood for change
Labour’s surge under Jacinda Ardern has us all talking about Labour vs National – who’s in front. Exciting stuff, but there is something even more important going on. The mood represented by Labour + Green + the plurality of NZF supporters. The winds of change are blowing.
CB poll has Labour ahead and Greens safe
Labour and Greens could govern alone.
The 3 News poll was a rogue.
National intends to sell another strategic asset
National again intends to sell off publicly owned assets for its own ideological reasons. This time it’s Landcorp farms, thus depriving the government of another avenue for leading the way on environmental protection for farmers and climate change action.
Greening the place up
It’s a simple equation; Labour plus The Greens equals real progress, real change, real hope.
Green Party announces a better deal for students
“Students are the only group in society expected to borrow just to get by. We believe that students should be supported so that they can focus on learning the skills they need to contribute to a smart, innovative economy and a fairer society”
Ardern on Nat’s campaign of ‘fear and lying’
Jacinda Ardern has spoken out about National’s campaign of “fear and lying”. Meanwhile Joyce keeps lying about his imaginary hole, and English tries to reinvent the fart tax attack.
National use opening of Christchurch Justice Precinct for political purposes
National has acted in breach of State Services Commission guidelines for the pre election period by having a flash opening of the Christchurch Justice Precinct even though it was not finished.
Kia Kaha Lefties – it’s one poll
Somewhere between complacency and losing hope there’s the mahi that still needs doing.
Early voting
Early voting has started with a bang – almost four times the 2014 figure. Jacindamania?
The Bullshit
National up, NZ Labour down, Greens dead? Really!?
Poll tonight
“Dramatic and Devastating” according to Patrick Gower. Do you think he wants us to watch?
Is NZF positioning itself for a 4th term National government?
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.
If you walked away from the Greens, it’s time to come back
Graham Cameron from First We Take Manhattan writes about the importance of voting Green this election in order to change the government and green the government.
I’m off to vote today
Voting has opened for advance votes and the expectation is that it will be pretty heavy prior to polling day over the next couple of weeks. I’ll be out there voting today for Jacinda Arden as my local MP, and for the Greens as my party vote.
Business leaders endorse Labour / Green government
In The Herald: “Fear of a Labour/Green Government in the business community is well gone, says SkyCity chairman-elect Rob Campbell”, “Business doesn’t necessarily do better under National led Governments”.
Plant trees, love NZ: the Greens’ bold Climate Protection Plan
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.
Below 40% National loses its diversity
Some polls have National below 40%. If that is reflected in the election result then National will lose much of its diversity, setting the party back by many years. The current list was constructed for the “pale stale male”. They need to be better balanced in the future.