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Yesterday I posted on Andrew Little wanting a mature discussion about our criminal justice system and where it is heading. The hope was that there would be debate and political consensus for change, because clearly the current system is not working. But judging from the…
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This made me laugh. Idiot Savant at No Right Turn reports that Queenstown Lakes District Council wants an exemption on luxury houses from the government's foreign buyers ban. Because no-one in New Zealand can afford to buy those houses, very rich people that live in another…
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Hot on the heels on the news that he is going to spend valuable time dancing with the stars David Seymour has engaged in a good old fashioned piece of fat shaming. From Anna Bracewell-Worrall at Stuff: ACT party politician David Seymour has openly fat-shamed…
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Andrew Little is proposing a radical change of approach to the Criminal Justice system. From David Fisher in the Herald: Minister of Justice Andrew Little has laid out a vision for criminal justice reform which sees sentencing law relaxed and a rejection of "tough…
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In Australia New Zealander of the year finalist Barnaby Joyce has announced that he will be standing down as leader of the National Party. The media frenzy was clearly becoming too much for him. News that his family values were not that good hurt, publication…
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The Florida school massacre has created a groundswell I hope will result in America being a better place. There is a growing group of politicised young people demanding that things are changed so that they and their friends and other young people in their situation…
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We have entered week two of National's leadership contest. I was heavily involved in the last two Labour leadership campaigns. They were really interesting events, prospective leaders touring the country talking about what drives them to be involved in politics and seeking the support of…
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https://twitter.com/BMHayward/status/966178292847071232 https://twitter.com/BMHayward/status/966177523800436736 https://twitter.com/BMHayward/status/966086903077339140 https://twitter.com/NathanJonRoss/status/966115981864067072 https://twitter.com/RGDudley/status/966185493779148802 https://twitter.com/28WordAverage/status/966114929316044801 Meanwhile, https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/966028605724610560 https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/966027263748669440 https://twitter.com/Forest_and_Bird/status/966081764409012224 The 2nd Pacific Climate Change Conference is on Weds - Fri this week. #pccc2018
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Press release via Scoop: __________________________________________________________________ Monday, 19 February 2018, 9:50 am The government are planning to sign the re-branded Trans Pacific Partnership in Chile on March 8th. Then they will begin the ratification process. The TPP might have been re-branded as the CPTPP but it's…
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As a service to the body politic Nicky Hager and the publishers of Dirty Politics have made the chapter of Dirty Politics that deals with Mark Mitchell freely available on the web. It is available here. Hager obviously thinks that it is important for the…
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The Lord Mayor of the City of London is visiting New Zealand. Its not Sadiq Khan; Charles Bowman is a PwC partner leading London's financial centre lobby. He's here to talk to business and regulators. He'll no doubt be talking up more deregulation. "Trust Us',…
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Kia ora koutou and welcome to the second edition of Pollwatch, where I, your host, copy polling into spreadsheets and analyse what its margins of error mean so that you don't have to, and try to share some dispassionate and hopefully objective analysis on trends.…
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Two further candidates for National's leadership have been announced. Yesterday Mark Mitchell said he wanted the top job. He botched the announcement though and showed some difficulty counting to two. For his sake I hope it is not reflective of his current support. https://twitter.com/jo_moir/status/965400946523086849 He…
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The Standard author Bill has said in the past that you can tell a lot about a political party by how it uses language especially in regards to us and them (when parties talk about themselves as separate from the rest of us). I was…
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The leadership campaign for National is getting strange. A support website for Judith Collins has spontaneously appeared. And it is registered to what looks like a false identity but Collins' Parliamentary office has been provided as a contact address for the site owner. From Stuff:…
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https://twitter.com/ycancela/status/964933983866892289 Every single person up here today, all these people should be home grieving. But instead we are up here standing together because if all our government and President can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it's time for victims to be the change…
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I get the feeling the Robert Mueller investigation is reaching a critical stage. Last week there was news that Rick Gates, former business partner of George Papadopoulos had changed tack and was cooperating fully with the Mueller investigation. From Salon: Rick Gates, a former top aide to…
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