Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Significantly, she is both the first black or Asian woman to be offered the position. Harris was an early runner to be the Democratic Party's Presidential candidate, but dropped out. The California senator of…
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Just been reading the NZ Herald. "Covid 19 coronavirus: Auckland in lockdown, rest of country in level 2 - Four cases of community transmission". Four cases of community transmission from the same family - presumably without an obvious cause. Lock down for 3 days in…
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Stats NZ is asking for submissions on their proposed changes to the standards for collecting and using data about sex and gender (submissions close 5pm on Thurs). The proposed changes appear to be twofold in intention: to make this research and governance part of society…
National truly is the party that keeps on giving. Every day there is a new scandal, a new event that casts doubt on National's ability to organise a piss up in a brewery, let alone run a country. Yesterday it was the the chance for…
Reason 1: Prime Minister Ardern Jacinda Ardern. We have the best crisis manager in the world, and pretty much the entire country agrees Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has done and will continue to do an astounding job. No one else comes close. We need a…
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Ten reasons to vote against the proposal: 1. It's In Your Professional Interests You - and your employment - become unsafe for driving or for work under the influence of THC. The government tried to clean up this mess with a law enabling testing of…
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Just over three years ago, a few weeks before leaving New Zealand, my friend Rob and I were in Burger Fuel on Cuba Street the hipster trendy part of Wellington. Piko was renting an office space in the old Wellington…
For a few days now Gerry Brownlee has been peddling dog whistle conspiracy theories that the Government is hiding bad news about Covid and we should all be really concerned. On August 5, 2020 the Spinoff commented on a press release that he had provided…
One of the founders of the Transition Town movement, Rob Hopkins, talks about how Transition Towns have responded to the covid pandemic, and how this helps us prepare for the coming climate crises. Central to the Transition movement from the outset has been the idea…
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It's out. And it appears to be bolted together hurriedly rather than carefully crafted. And a lot of it may be academic. Such is National's current polling there will not be many list places to go around. Four months ago I had a guess at…
More bad news for NZ First. It looks like their hope that Northland could provide a get out of jail free card is misplaced. The special Colmar Brunton poll result this morning had National's Matt King on 46% and Shane Jones a distant third on…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll is yet another rogue result, claiming that new National Party leader Judith Collins has actually cost the Tories votes. That can't be true, surely? On the day that National have released their party list, this will be a reminder to…
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=625849445002350 E ngā mana e ngā reo Ngāti whātua ngā mana whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau, e tika te kōrero Ehara taku toa he toa (taki tahi) he toa (taki tini) No rēira tātou e huihui mai nei, ka ‘Hoake tonu tātou’ Thank you for that…
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This week feels like I have gone through a time warp and that I have been returned to 2016. Suddenly John Key is back in the media and displaying that passive aggressive style that he perfected. On Tuesday he was advocating that the country's borders…
Before you read this post, please watch at least the first 3 1/2 minutes of this video. It's James Shaw's Adjournment speech in parliament yesterday, and he's funny. Seriously, 3 minutes of jokes, casting shade on Winston, National, Act and even a wee bit on…
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A comment was made recently that no-one gets paid $100,000 growing permaculture kale, and this is the income needed for a house. It was a throwaway, dismissive comment so I'm not linking to it, but it was in the context of job creation and my…
I normally do not do this, tempting fate and all that. But the forces behind this election are so strong that it would take a really dramatic event to change current momentum. Because kiwis are really proud that we are, so far, Covid free. We…
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The left’s change of fortune in the last 3 years is still kind of mindblowing. In 2017, the election that many believed the left would lose was twice turned on its head. First by Metiria Turei’s speech announcing the Green Party’s new welfare policy, where…