Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, October 10th, 2023 - 12 comments
What has happened to the fine art of intelligent heckling?
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, October 1st, 2023 - 5 comments
Skyfall was 10 years ago but it has a message for all public servants local or central as you choose your vote.
Written By: - Date published: 2:31 pm, September 16th, 2023 - 12 comments
“Worker’s rights are under threat this election as Christopher Luxon and David Seymour eye up a smorgasbord of cuts,” Labour Spokesperson for Workplace Relations and Safety Carmel Sepuloni said.
“Only a Labour government will safeguard fair pay agreements, where applications are currently progressing to improve pay and conditions for bus drivers, hospitality staff, early childhood teachers, port workers, cleaners and security guards.”
Written By: - Date published: 8:28 am, September 12th, 2023 - 9 comments
“Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers and regular screening saves lives, so it is critical cost isn’t a barrier to accessing early detection”
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, September 12th, 2023 - 14 comments
“The Green Party has a rescue plan for the ocean”
Written By: - Date published: 1:29 pm, September 8th, 2023 - 38 comments
What will New Zealand look like if Act forms part of the next Government?
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, September 4th, 2023 - 70 comments
Yes we could do the next five weeks on teeth and taxes, but actually China is pulling us down and our political parties need to make it an election issue.
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 pm, August 26th, 2023 - 17 comments
David Seymour reached more absurd levels of idiocy this week with a suggestion that if he was alive Nelson Mandela would be an Act supporter.
Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, August 26th, 2023 - 4 comments
New Zealand Parliamentarians are certainly facing foreign-funded political interference from China. It’s just not from the official Communist Party-led nation.
Written By: - Date published: 11:29 am, August 20th, 2023 - 12 comments
Stuart Nash has given a valedictory speech which could have been delivered by a retiring National MP.
Written By: - Date published: 8:48 am, August 18th, 2023 - 103 comments
David Seymour yesterday hit a new low in race baiting when he said that “in my fantasy we’d send a guy called Guy Fawkes in [to the ministry of Pacific Peoples] and it’d be all over”.
Written By: - Date published: 2:06 pm, August 13th, 2023 - 168 comments
As predicted Labour has announced a policy of taking GST off fresh fruit and vegetables and a significant adjustment to Working for Families In House Tax Credit levels and the Thresholds.
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, August 11th, 2023 - 11 comments
Ad believes the Barbie Movie will be a mobilising element in regaining Democrat balance in Congress (maybe not the Senate) and the White House.
Written By: - Date published: 9:47 am, July 22nd, 2023 - 57 comments
This week Labour has announced toughening up of the law dealing with 12 and 13 year olds and National has been playing politics with the shooting incident after earlier saying it was not a day to play politics.
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, July 19th, 2023 - 16 comments
National underlined its complete lack of intellectual grunt and its fascination with passing anxieties as well as its intent to forget what it did by recently releasing a pothole policy.
Written By: - Date published: 4:46 pm, July 2nd, 2023 - 54 comments
Being subject to allegations of inappropriate behaviour the detail of which has not been released by unnamed public servants must make Kiritapu Allan think that she is living in a Franz Kafka novel.
Written By: - Date published: 9:32 am, June 28th, 2023 - 12 comments
Who has the better take on the Treaty of Waitangi? Julian Batchelor or Sir Apirana Ngata?
Written By: - Date published: 8:49 am, June 28th, 2023 - 12 comments
Yesterday in Parliament National attempted to embarrass Carmel Sepuloni in question time by asking her detailed economic questions. But the attempt backfired.
Written By: - Date published: 8:39 am, June 27th, 2023 - 38 comments
A weakened Russia is a Russia made more dependent on China. New Zealand is also deeply reliant on China.
Written By: - Date published: 4:30 pm, June 25th, 2023 - 4 comments
It is a given that the right in power want to sell public assets off and the left want to retain those assets. And it appears that the right’s eyes are on Ports of Auckland.
Written By: - Date published: 4:20 pm, June 25th, 2023 - 10 comments
In the absence of any political party stating clearly that public ownership of major infrastructure is a very good idea, here’s 10 good things public ownership of infrastructure does that private ownership doesn’t.
Written By: - Date published: 1:29 pm, June 23rd, 2023 - 9 comments
It is good to see that there is a substantial business delegation accompanying Chris Hipkins to China, and that it is aimed at seeking to diversify into a wider range of issues. As China’s ambassador Wang Xiaolong noted in the Herald yesterday, there are significant opportunities for New Zealand on offer.
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, June 15th, 2023 - 17 comments
“We applaud Rosemary for standing up against big oil and gas.”
Written By: - Date published: 6:31 pm, June 11th, 2023 - 65 comments
The Green Party has today announced an income guarantee and a wealth tax.
Written By: - Date published: 8:45 pm, June 5th, 2023 - 34 comments
Gerald Hensley was David Lange’s chief of staff when New Zealand’s nuclear free policy was adopted. He opposed what happened then and opposes it still. He now argues we should prepare for war with China.
Written By: - Date published: 8:05 pm, May 27th, 2023 - 49 comments
Carmel Sepuloni’s speech to the 2023 Labour Party Congress.
Written By: - Date published: 8:01 am, May 9th, 2023 - 16 comments
In case we just missed it, New Zealand really has picked a side. Prime Minister Hipkins will head to the NATO summit in Lithuania together with Australia, Japan and South Korean leaders. Also Vladimir Zelinskyy is intending to go as well.
Written By: - Date published: 10:58 am, May 6th, 2023 - 50 comments
We are mature enough to have our own leader. Own our own shit.
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, April 28th, 2023 - 78 comments
I’ve worked my way through two books recently, both on extremist sects, one about New Zealand groups and one about those in the United States of America. It’s startling.
Written By: - Date published: 6:14 am, April 14th, 2023 - 24 comments
Today the Government adopted a long held Green Party position to increase the number of water entities to ensure a closer connection with communities they serve. However, despite the rebrand, significant concerns remain.
Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, April 8th, 2023 - 28 comments
In the United Kingdom Keir Starmer’s faction are exerting their control by moving to the centre and adopting policy positions very similar to the Conservatives. And by refusing to allow Jeremy Corbyn to stand as a Labour candidate in the next election.
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