This has been an incredible year for the National Party. Will it implode publicly tonight with a series of attacks on the leadership and campaign by disgruntled MPs or will Judith perform better than expected and minimise the carnage. This post is to follow National's…
TVNZ electorate results page. Auckland Central Electoral Commission live update page. Emma Mellow/National Helen White/Labour Chloe Swarbrick/Greens Tamaki Makaurau Electoral Commission live update page. Peeni Henare/Labour Marama Davidson/Greens John Tamihere/Māori Party Polling last week. Waiariki EC results Tamati Coffey/Labour Rawiri Waititi/Māori Party …
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All three major pollsters have delivered their final results within two days of election day, giving us a nice picture into what the spread of results tomorrow could look like, with the trend looking good for some sort of centre-left government, but a majority government…
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If 2017 was the election where we changed the government from right to centre left, then 2020 should be the election where we changed that centre left govt into a green left one. We're kind of getting there, but here's the problem. The climate crisis…
It is election day tomorrow. This campaign is different to previous campaigns. Advance voting is phenomenal. As at yesterday morning over 1.5 million people had early voted. It seems pretty clear that most people have made up their mind and want the campaign finished. Last…
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Labour is coming off strastopheric polling but the Greens are looking safer. And National is still on the decline. The figures are above and things are looking promising. Make sure you vote for your preferred progressive party this weekend if you have not already.
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Reprinted with permission from Socialist Aotearoa. Should we legalise the recreational use of cannabis? Yes – because let’s be clear: the ‘war on drugs’ is a class and race war masquerading as a crusade to shield young people from harm. The fact is Kiwis do…
I wrote a post the other day, About that wealth tax, explaining how the Green Party's proposed wealth tax would work. It's worth reading if you still believe that the tax will hurt Grandma and Grandad savers (it won't). This week the heat has been…
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National MP David Bennett has come up with a radical new proposal to address Government debt. He wants a lover tax to be imposed. And I thought that National was the party of no new taxes. I wonder if he has canvassed the proposal with…
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Press release from the Green Party. Greens welcome Labour’s climate commitments, will push for more action to match the scale of the crisis Posted by James Shaw October 07, 2020 1:09 PM The Green Party welcomes Labour’s commitment to reduce climate emissions in the next…
The latest UMR poll results were leaked yesterday and were not good for National. The rumoured results were: Labour: 50% National: 29% ACT: 7% Greens: 6% Winston First 2.7% Clearly they approximate National's own polling and they have caused Judith Collins to reflect and tone…
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The 2014 election campaign still burns in my memory. The Labour Party was clearly divided, unity and discipline was lacking and the electorate could sense it. Things were that bad we had Labour list MPs not campaigning for the party vote. Clearly they thought that…
Newshub are reporting that the NZMA no longer has a position on the current referendum on the legalisation of cannabis, NZMA chairperson Dr Kate Baddock wrote a letter in NZ Doctor apologising to members who felt they hadn't been given the chance to speak their…
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The campaign is at a very interesting stage. The country's love of Jacinda is very evident. She went to Mangere on Saturday and pretty well everyone turned up to greet her. At the same time Judith was at Howick and the response was pretty underwhelming. …
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It started off with shiny new leadership after Simon Bridges was rolled. Remember these guys? But things did not work out as planned. Then another strong team emerged. Although they did something weird with Gerry's tie. Then Gerry seemed to disappear. What was going on?…
I wrote in August, in The fragility of our food supply, 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,…
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In an announcement that will probably gain them few extra votes but still warms the cockles of my heart, Labour have promised to put Kauri Dieback on the same scale of national disease response as Bovine Tuberculosis and Kiwifruit PSA. They have also proposed an…