It's interesting how little understanding there is of the state and politics within the Parliamentary Labour Party. A lot of the coverage of Labour’s internal workings has tended to personalise the tension – it’s been focused on Shearer vs Cunliffe without any questions about what…
There is an important summit on renewable energy in the Pacific in Auckland today and tomorrow, which is strongly supported by the PM. His press release focuses on the investment opportunities it provides, rather than the needs of Pacific people and their communities. Nevertheless, it's…
National, the party of beneficiary bashing, is on a crusade against parents on the DBP. It's horrifying quite how open they are about it: Beneficiaries having babies 'reason' for reform As the second round of welfare reforms come back before Parliament, Social Development Minister Paula…
The proportion on people who have pre-registerd for Mighty River Power, according to the Stuff poll: Reality: (440,000 pre-registrations, well short of the half a million the Right was touting) Methinks the readership of newsites leans significantly to the middle class and elite. Out of…
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