Pigs
It’s good to see Green MP Sue Kedgley calling on John Key to personally fix the abuse of pigs in sow crates. The […]
Politics
Posts on government and governence at national and local level, political parties,politicians, and political participation
Granny Herald – getting more irrelevant
This morning’s NZ Herald was interesting. I picked it up while waiting for the bus, rather than reading it on the iPhone in […]
How much is that doggie in the window?
It’s a disgrace that the supercity agenda is being foisted on Auckland undemocratically, and it is an additional disgrace that it is being […]
Fair weather friends
Watch as the Tories try to distance Key from Lee. Remember that Lee was Key’s personal choice. Young, pretty, smiley, not too sharp […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Can’t you play off to one side?
Last year a small number of truck companies held the ‘truck strike’, they got 4000 trucks to jam the CBDs of every major […]
Let them eat oysters
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Thousands of protesters take to the streets of Auckland […]
Talking tough
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Today in the Herald John Key is talking tough, […]
Political management or policies at fault?
As the wheels have come off National’s political agenda in the past few weeks, their fanboys have wailed in anguish. Lee, Rankin, the […]
What’s the point again?
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Accepted truths are funny things. For example, everyone has […]
On Auckland and Leningrad
The modern blitzkrieg [lightning war] was first tested in the Spanish civil war, refined in the invasions of European states that marked the beginning of WWII, […]
Select committee charade
John Armstrong seems to be shaking off his Key honeymoon, and has written a detailed and interesting piece on Carter’s role chairing the […]
The god of small things
Herald: Key negotiates talks in Hillary papers dispute Stuff: PM wants the facts on Veitch What’s next? Key joins hunt for couple who […]
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 […]
Smoke ’em out
Let’s give Brash his inquiry. The poor demented shell of a man thinks there’s some great conspiracy against him. He’s so deluded he even […]
Auckland’s new overlord
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity Monday 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Sometimes democracy’s a pain in the arse. So Aucklanders […]
Caption competition
Nat MPs distancing themselves from Super City
Remember – March against National’s undemocratic supercity Monday 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] National’s Paul Hutchison, whose Hunua electorate lies in Franklin, […]
The crisis of credit visuali[s]ed
I just came across this. It’s the first part of a video by a US organisation called A New Way Forward. They’re organising […]
Key: Govt “on track”
Prime Minister John Key today announced that he was ecstatic with his government’s performance and was “on track” to making his the most […]
Melissa Lee concedes in Mt Albert
A full 3 weeks before the vote, National candidate Melissa Lee has publicly accepted that she is not going win the Mt Albert by-election. In […]
Less firing, more hiring
The Herald reports today that TVNZ fired 90 employees following a letter from Broadcasting Minister Johnathan Coleman demanding that it raise its profitability. […]
National’s “supercity” policy lies
Remember – March against National’s undemocractic supercity Monday 25th, noon, Queen St Interesting to look back at National’s local government and Auckland policy before the election. […]
“Confusing and might be taken the wrong way by some”
Duncan Garner had to do a balance piece against David Shearer because he has been at the forefront of covering the implosion of […]
Last night’s Super City meeting
I attended the Paula Bennett-John Carter Supercity meeting yesterday evening in Kelston. This was one of the hastily arranged series of meetings arranged […]
Starting early
I’m starting to feel a little sorry for Melissa Lee given the punching bag she’s become. True, she’s brought it on herself, but […]
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 […]
Why Lee is banned from interviews
Rumour has it Melissa has been banned from giving formal interviews by National’s leadership but what’s the harm in answering a few questions […]
On the back foot
When a Government are having to defend their actions they are not setting the agenda, Given it is a week before National’s first budget […]
Carter’s attack on SAFE a diversion
So, Agriculture Minister David Carter finally creaks into action on the brutal and inhumane treatment of factory farmed pigs, then spends most of […]
Bye bye democracy
So what is this Transition Board thing that National and Act created by ramming through legislation in a huge rush last week last […]
Government for the people?
The Herald recently ran an excellent piece by Dr Emma Davies and Elizabeth Rowe (from the Institute of Public Policy at AUT) – […]