The most important recent political news in my opinion are two opinion poll results. The first the Kantar poll from last week suggested that 65% of kiwis opposed National's plan to reverse Labour's tax on those earning over $180,000. National needs to proceed with this…
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Metservice and NIWA aren't going to say this is climate change, because any of these floods and slips could have and have happened without AGW. But, the point here is that extreme weather events will get more extreme and more frequent. We already see this…
The polls are out and the internal revolt last month to remove James Shaw as Greens co leader hasn’t made a ripple. Apparently being so close to Labour in Parliament would enable the Green Party to better hold Labour to account. But this year the…
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You can be the most moral nation on earth and have no reward for it. New Zealand is a small well managed state within a small developed country with high vulnerabilities and dependencies in petrol and car reliance, a low-productivity and low innovation economy, proportionally…
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Labour's caucus will meet today to discuss what to do about Gaurav Sharma. The eventual conclusion I think is fairly predictable. Putting aside what happened last week the level of shitfuckery involved in doing a confidential text dump on social media at the very time…
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1559042897306980352 https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1559042904181448705 https://twitter.com/vote_climatenz/status/1558924782959476736 greens.org.nz press release New public transport model must be backed with investment 4-5 minutes The Green Party has once again shown that bringing people together to demand change works, with the announcement today that the Government will give communities a greater say…
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I have hesitated in writing this post and thought it might be better to leave the subject for now. But it appears that it will not blow over quickly and the Standard has in the past reported on similar events and is a repository of…
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