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So Metiria Turei told porkies to WINZ when she was a solo parent. Big fucking whoops. I'm guessing a whole pile of people without a fucking clue will attempt to jump all over her for that. And they'll make as though they've never fiddled their…
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The Greens are set to announce a major welfare policy from their AGM at 1pm today. The Herald, The Green Party is set to announce one of its most ambitious policies, which it hopes will put New Zealand on the path ending poverty. It is…
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Under this Government if you are a beneficiary there are strenuous work obligations and drug test obligations. The Government seems to take a sadistic pleasure in making people look for non existing jobs or to submit themselves to drug tests that almost invariably showed that…
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New Zealand used to be a land where everyone had a chance to have a decent life. Norm Kirk put it well in this description that Grant Robertson has referred to many times: What New Zealanders want is somewhere to work, somewhere to live, someone…
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I'd characterise incrementalists as people who acknowledge the science and seriousness of global warming, but who maintain it's possible to use capitalism as a way to counter it. In that vein, we're talking about such things as getting the right price on carbon, building 'green'…
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Yesterday James Shaw gave a speech about climate change to the Green Party AGM. He pointed to the now normal breaking away of parts of the Antarctic iceshelf, the Larsen break-off this week, which is part of the full break up of the whole Larsen…
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Press release from the Green Party's AGM. ________________________________________________________________________ Green Infrastructure Fund | Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand It’s time to speed up investment in the big projects that will kick-start the green economy and create good jobs. Responding to the challenge of climate change…
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Text of the prepared speech delivered today by James Shaw to the Green Party conference. He koutu whenua, he take whenua, e kore e taea te riri. Tīhei mauriora! He mihi nui ki ngā mana whenua o tēnei takiwā, Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrakei, tēnā koutou…
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Simon Wilson wrote this piece offering advice to Labour and the Greens about how to win this election. The advice caused a considerable amount of blowback in twitterland. And while some of it is accurate other parts I disagreed with completely. His article is about…
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Seems the Nats are starting to panic (Shane Cowlishaw on Newsroom): Government searches for prison panacea The Government has been unapologetic for the record high prison population, but that confidence may be beginning to waver. ... Corrections Minister Louise Upston has sought advice about how…
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Lots of news today. UMR's polling may or may not have been leaked and it may suggest that Labour is at 26%, the Greens at 14% and National is at 42%. And on the same day the latest Roy Morgan poll comes out suggesting that Labour…
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Day two and ACT is still obsessing about people's breeding habits. Apparently trying to make sure that kids don't starve is creating us all into bludgers. And you don't use the forces of the state to help kids because hell someone might think that it…
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Theresa May knows that the tories are utterly stuffed over Brexit so she's calling for ideas / trying to spread the blame. Theresa May asks opponents for 'ideas' to tackle Britain's 'challenges' Brexit weekly briefing: embattled Theresa May concedes she needs help Monday briefing: Mayday!…
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Support for Labour's policy from an anonymous Herald editorial: Labour could spend all National's tax cut on the needy Credit where it is due. It takes courage to say that if elected, you will cancel a tax cut. Yes. That is what the Labour Party…
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According to Stuff, National and Labour have “come out of their respective blue and red corners to back the proposed Waimea dam in the face of Green criticism.” Local MP Nick Smith supports it. His Labour party rival Rachel Boyack said the project stacked up…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Labour gets its message and its messaging spot on here. More please! https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/885291886927200256
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So the Greens have signaled that they won't be taken for a ride - that if NZ Labour is forming government, then they have to include the Green Party in the formation of that government. That's not news. Sorry. Apparently that's big news, worth running…
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I don’t have kids and am not going to pretend that I can get my head around the hugely complex system of benefits and tax credits that lower income parents can access. So when Labour released its Families Package policy this week I was more…
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I/S at No Right Turn: National's new Muldoonism What's National's plan for the economy? Apparently, it is to suspend all environmental law for their cronies: Forest & Bird can reveal that for 18 months, the Government investigated creating ‘Special Economic Zones’ to push through contentious…
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In railing against Labour's targeted assistance to low income families, ACT's David Seymour showed us yet again the ugly side of tory politics: https://twitter.com/actparty/status/884933052228677632 OK then. Poor people shouldn't be allowed to have kids. That probably sounds very familiar, and so it should, because the…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Some of the best tweets on the latest chapter of the Trump tragedy. We never expected the smoking gun to be friendly fire. Will Republicans meekly swallow this too? Unbelievable: https://twitter.com/AP/status/884793163268993024 https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/884826103067533312 https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/884888626093592576 https://twitter.com/yashar/status/884900796957171712 https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789418455953413 https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789839522140166 https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/884816540473995264 https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/884736141391536128 https://twitter.com/natefernald/status/884613581031034882 https://twitter.com/andymoney69/status/884800341086265344
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The recent TVNZ Colmar Brunton poll has caused plenty of discussion here in the last few days. Here's an interesting angle to consider, courtesy of Toby Manhire on The Spinoff: The latest poll offers little for anyone to crow about [...] ... But how good…