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Judith Collins appears to be fighting a hopeless battle. Clearly the battle for National's leadership is between Adams and Bridges. And perhaps Collins is battling for relevance and her future. With a field of at least three and a preferential voting system her endorsement would…
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Prior to the election in 2014 the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand published 16 reasons why NZ should change its abortion laws. See yesterday's post for Justice Minister Andrew Little's announcement to do just that. ALRANZ's outline of our current laws: In New Zealand, abortion…
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What is it with ACT politicians and the dancing with the stars programme. Don't they have enough to do like carry the hopes and aspirations of the right wing in Parliament and attack beneficiaries and sell off stuff? But ACT politicians are creating an unfortunate…
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https://twitter.com/CrikaRika/status/964324543476068353 Newsroom reported yesterday: Andrew Little surprised observers today when he revealed that a draft referral on reforming New Zealand's abortion law had been circulated to New Zealand First and the Greens. Little said today that he received a letter from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern…
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https://twitter.com/_chloeswarbrick/status/963871033475256320 From Thursday's Otago Daily Times: At a meeting of the Dunedin City Council's planning and environment committee this week, councillors voted to adopt a target of a 100% reduction in net carbon emissions by 2050, excluding methane for now. The adoption of the target meant…
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New Zealander of the year finalist Barnaby Joyce is in a very tenuous position. It looks like his future as deputy prime minister is in doubt. The genesis of his problems is an intimate relationship he conducted with his former press secretary which has recently…
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This is an update on the TPPA-11 written by Jane Kelsey at It's Our Future as part of a longer piece on the the TPPA and Te Tiriti O Waitangi. _________________________________________________________ The state of play with TPPA The original Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement was signed by…
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There's an article and photo shoot of Jacinda Ardern in the latest (US) Vogue, and various commentary is starting to be made. The Vogue article is online. Myself, I don’t have a problem with this, or the whole Women’s Weekly thing. I want a PM who…
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Christine Rose posted in November 2017 her concerns about Minister of Fisheries Stuart Nash wanting to delay the roll out of cameras on fishing boats to monitor what they were catching. She described the background in the following terms: Maui and Hector’s dolphins, found only…
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U.S. stockmarkets have been highly volatile over the last two weeks. Nothing like a good scare on the global share markets to make people wonder if their money is safe. The volatility has induced all sorts of unhelpful histrionics about the end of capitalism, and…
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Fletcher Building, as telegraphed by their share trading halt last week, today announced further dire losses from their Building and Interiors unit that sent their shares plunging another 12% to $6.87. The company said it was suspending the shareholder interim dividend and was in breach…
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Is there anyone in National's caucus not wanting to be leader? Amy Adams has just announced, and by the looks of the support she had (Nikki Kaye, Maggie Barry, Tim Macindoe, and Chris Bishop) she is representing the liberal wing of the party. Bishop's appearance…
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And then there were two. Simon Bridges, famous for announcing ten bridges during the campaign period for the Northland by election, none of which were subsequently built, has announced that he will also be seeking the National Party leadership. He is still the front runner.…
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Had anyone with a job (other than the top 2 tiers of management) had a wage increase higher than inflation recently? Why is it that wages don’t increase when our headline unemployment rate is so low at 4.6% and falling? Too often on the left…
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And they are off. Judith Collins is the first out of the block and has announced that she will be seeking the leadership of the National Party. She did this by way of a tweet. https://twitter.com/JudithCollinsMP/status/963493539526029312 Shen then managed to secure an interview on…
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Post authored by Micky, Matt and Enzo. With Bill English gone all eyes will be on National's leadership campaign. But they have a problem. As pointed out by this Dominion Post editorial all the leading contenders have striking flaws. National's best interests may be to…
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From itsourfuture.org.nz Auckland 12 Feb – Wellington 14 Feb – Nelson 20 Feb – Christchurch 21 Feb – Dunedin 22 Feb The TPPA-11 has had a rebranding to the CPTPPA (Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement) – yet there is very little that is comprehensive or progressive…
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EleanorAingeRoy is reporting at The Guardian, The islands of Tonga in the South Pacific have been devastated by Tropical Cyclone Gita with winds of 230km/h flattening parts of Parliament House and causing significant damage and injuries across the kingdom. Gita hit Tonga around 8pm on Monday…
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Bill English has resigned. Apparently his confidence of last week had a limited lifespan. RNZ has the live feed. Now we can really speculate on which one of the no-hopers will assume the position to fail at the next election. They are somewhat short of…
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Cross-post of a piece by Nick “Upper Hutt boy in London” Kelly. Blog here. How often do you hear people grizzling how ‘unfair’ something is? You hear a child tell their parents that its unfair they won’t buy them lollies. Its not ‘fair’ that your older…
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Some of you who have been watching the news lately may have noticed a petition by film-maker Renae Maihi, requesting that the Prime Minister revoke the Knighthood of one Mr. Bob Jones1, purveyor of racist trolling extraordinaire, and experiencer of multiple opinion column withdrawal, including…