In an effort to be seen to be doing something about a housing crisis that they say doesn't exist, the dynamic go-getter team at National Inc bring you - this: Govt puts $1b in Housing Infrastructure Fund The Government has announced a $1 billion Housing…
Liberal PM Malcolm Turnbull's double-dissolution electoral gamble to get around a often hung senate has effectively now gone and hung the lower house as well. (see double-dissolution triggers). While the final results of the election won't be known until postal votes are counted on Tuesday, as…
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A general post for discussion of the Australian Election results as they come in tonight. Will be updated with events. Results should start to filter through after 8 pm local time when the booths close. The opinion polls are neck and neck ... Update: 2 and…
If you're an average worker the actions of the National government have reduced the value of your KiwiSaver fund at retirement by about $100K: National’s cuts shave $100K off KiwiSaver by retirement Press Release: New Zealand Labour Party New analysis shows National’s constant cuts to…
The past week has seen some of the most inept political manoeuvring I have ever seen from a left wing party, and believe me I have seen a lot ... Following the Brexit vote the Conservatives and David Cameron should have been pilloried by the…
John Key and the National government have always attacked facts, scientists, lawyers, journalists and other experts that they don't like. Just ask Mike Joy, Bradley Ambrose, Jon Stephenson, Rodney Harrison QC and others. But lately National's denial of the facts has gone to a whole…
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It's Election Day across the ditch. Conservative Malcolm Turnbull is seeking a mandate to continue his leadership, while Labor's Bill Shorten wants to return the left to power and put a line under the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd years. The polls are showing margins thinner than a zig…
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Yesterday Generation Zero released their proposal for a Zero Carbon Act: The climate crisis is growing more urgent by the day. To realise the goal of keeping global warming to well below 2°C, as agreed by the whole world in Paris last December, we need…
Of the 2015 budget Deborah Russell wrote: Very quietly, a cut here and a decrease there, a failure to keep up with inflation in one place, and ignoring increasing population in another place, the Government is walking away from New Zealand's longstanding social compact. It's…
The leader of the UK's Leave campaign and the favourite to replace David Cameron as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has quit the race for the top job. He's been royally stabbed in the back by his lieutenant Michael Gove, who has thrown his own hat…
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