https://twitter.com/cgnetwork/status/918042666696429568 Background on the Weinstein case. https://twitter.com/ICaitlinCherry/status/917951481394761729 https://twitter.com/golrizghahraman/status/917998611526328320 When contacted by Newshub, Mr Plunket originally claimed no knowledge of the tweets. Later in the night, he clarified that he did not know which tweets we were referring to as he "hadn't tweeted [tonight]". "I've deleted…
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Despite its scholarly pretensions, The Spinoff feature Election 2017: a vote for the status quo by Dr Claire Robinson seems little more than a highly aggressive PR strategy for the National Party. (Robinson = Massey Administrator, media pundit, “expert” in political marketing, former Academic & former Private Secretary to Jenny Shipley)…
This isn't new, but it came up again recently. Authorities and industrial dairy, including Federated Farmers and Fonterra have known about this from at least 2010. It's worth revisiting in a week when the next government of NZ is going to be decided by a man who…
Reposted from No Right Turn _________________________________________________________ In the wake of the Christchurch earthquakes, the government red-zoned a huge swathe of the city and used coercive buyouts to depopulate and demolish it on "safety" grounds. Now, having snapped up those properties cheaply due to the red-zoning,…
Fran O'Sullivan has a good piece this morning on the policy priorities that appear to be emerging from the coalition talks: Fran O'Sullivan: Winston Peters wish list has sensitive topics ... Peters has put overseas investment, the NZ currency and affordable housing near the top…
Widely reported last night: Winston Peters: It won't be known on Thursday who the new government is Winston Peters says no announcement will be made about the next government on Thursday... ... Peters said back in July that a decision would be made public on…
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Good work form the Greens and Newsroom (Shane Cowlishaw): Government investigating fuel tax hike The Government has been investigating fuel tax increases to plug holes in its transport budget, despite ruling them out during the election campaign. ... Before the election Labour announced it would,…
In the last month in both Germany and New Zealand, new parliaments were elected. In neither case did the outcome predicate a particular coalition between political parties. In Germany, the election winner was Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, CSU.…
From the realms of political fantasy - David Seymour says Winston Peters will become prime minister. The reckons of Seymour are as bizarre as ever, don't waste your time. But one thing did catch my eye - On Monday, the ACT Party leader, who is…
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Policy is everything, Winston Peters said today. This should not come as a surprise. Before every election, he has refused to give any hint of Party support preference until after the vote. But it is highly likely that he has thought a lot about what…
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Duncan Garner has done a piece that basically channels NZ Labour immigration policy. Essentially, so the argument goes, NZ has too many people and not enough infra-structure and so must "take a breather" to get things in order. So I'll just point out the fucking…
This Guest Post is by Standardista Incognito. Spoiler alert: reading this may spoil the fun watching the movie Arrival for the first time! In the recent movie Arrival aliens land on Mother Earth. Well, technically, they don’t actually land but their ‘ships’ just hover in…
The complete mess that National has made of our health system got plenty of airtime during the election campaign. While it received less coverage, the education system is a mess too. RNZ this morning: Tertiary enrolments fall as cost of living rises Tertiary enrolments have…
For the next four (presumably) days the media is going to go nuts trying to cover the coalition talks. Quite apart from the genuine and significant public interest, they have column inches to fill, and nothing much to fill them with. Expect to see agendas…
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I must admit thinking on election night that it was all over. Despite a tremendous surge thanks to an outstanding campaign by Jacinda Ardern it seemed that Labour ended up short of the necessary votes. Basic math shows that Labour and the Greens were then…
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The final election results have been released. Pontifications and guesses can now cease although someone should do an analysis of all the shyte some commentators said and show how wrong they were. I put up a post three years ago where I predicted that the…
A long and interesting read: Audrey Young: Labour has the edge if the Left's seat count rises Politics, like life, would be a lot simpler without choices. Ask Winston Peters. This week he seemed burdened by having to make coalition choices when he pointed out…
The right wing clobbering machine is already calling a possible Labour Green NZF a "coalition of losers". Well under MMP a coalition of losers can be the winners. But however you cut it a coalition of liars will always be liars. National's Joyce and English…
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
Two of the big issues in the 'can the Greens go with National?' debate are the party's political positioning, and the internal processes that the party is obligated to follow. Both of those things reflect deeper values around policy and decision making, and I hope…
