Yesterday on politics from the left and the right on Radio New Zealand Matthew Hooton sounded what may be the death knell for ACT's future. He mentioned how tens of millions of dollars have been spent over the past two decades on a failed political…
You need little more evidence of how Gerry Brownlee's lazy-faire approach to the Christchurch rebuild has failed than the story of the (working) single mother forced to live in a tent with her 3 kids because there's no affordable rentals. One of the automatic moves…
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The Emissions Trading Scheme was never a particularly good way of curbing greenhouse emissions and the way that National gutted it made it distinctly worse. Now we are in a position where National has found a way to use it to providing even more polluter…
The findings of the child poverty monitoring report has now been published. The figures are chilling. A quarter of kiwi kids, or 265,000 children, live in poverty, 18% go without need they need, 10% live in severe poverty and three out of five who live…
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