Text of his speech delivered today in Auckland. E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā iwi, e rau rangatira ma. Tena koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. Mālō e lelei Kia Orana Talofa Lava Fakaalofa lahi atu, Mālō Ni Ni sa bula. Namaste As-salamu…
Anyone else feel their jaw move rapidly to the floor as news of the GCSB's problems emerged this week? The Standard has spent a lot of time over the years talking about the GCSB. Check out these posts to get a flavour of what we…
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I don't want to be writing this post. It's significantly easier to sit on twitter and be distracted by whatever the current hot political topic is than it is to look the climate crisis in its face. Not that those other things aren't important. We…
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Grant Robertson gave his valedictory speech last night. It was very well crafted and gave a real insight into his time in Parliament. No analysis is necessary because he summarised things up very well. But there are three areas where what he said needs repeating.…
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Remember how National promised to attack backroom bloat but not touch frontline services? It seems that it has a different definition of these terms. Because National has put an abrupt halt on funding given to support for families of disabled Kiwis. Respondible Minister Penny Simmonds…
At one level this Government is a real laugh. Every couple of days either David Seymour or Winston Peters do something outlandish to try and attract attention. They do not care about getting majority support. They just want to attract attention to secure their base…
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Uber Drivers are in the Court of Appeal today. Uber is appealing against Employment Court decision they they are employees with worker rights. Its a no-brainer, so they are and should have them. John Campbell covered the issues well in this 1News story last year.…
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The Maritime Union of New Zealand has set up an online petition urging Auckland Council not to privatise Auckland Port and also this very helpful web page allowing people to make submissions on Auckland Council's draft long term plan, where the privatisation proposal is being…
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