James Shaw in Parliament yesterday during the Ministerial Statements — Cyclone Gabrielle—Declaration of State of National Emergency. https://vimeo.com/798592224 Transcript from Hansard: Yeah, thank you, Mr Speaker. The Green Party also supports the declaration of a state of emergency in response to Cyclone Gabrielle. I do want…
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Cyclone Gabrielle is currently bearing down on Tamaki Makaurau. Locals are nervous. In my home suburb Titirangi a recent storm that fell well outside the definition of a one in one hundred year storm has caused multiple slips and scarring to the local landscape. Some…
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It is really difficult trying to appear to be Prime Minister material and inclusive and to appeal to racists at the same time. Christopher Luxon this week has shown how difficult it is. Waitangi day has now been and gone but it pays to reflect…
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Kia ora koutou, Having a cheeky log-in to the old account to cross-post an important announcement. Stephanie Rodgers has been selected as the Green Party candidate for Ōhāriu. Stephanie is a communications expert and campaigner who has worked in the union movement, public service and…
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Apologies for not posting much lately. The Auckland floods and the draft Mayoral budget have taken their toll on my time as well as many other things not to mention people's lives. Chris Hipkins has announced the great policy reset and there are no surprises.…
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https://twitter.com/domesticanimal/status/1621959640501354496 The Spinoff's Ranginui Walker: Te Tiriti and the abyss of meaning is a reprint of their 2001 excerpt from Walker's book Ka Whawhai Tonu Mātou, Struggle Without End (a history of Aotearoa from a Māori perspective). E-Tangata has David Williams: The Treaty, in English or Māori, is…
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Recent months have seen a rise in conflict in online spaces between different aspects of what is broadly called the gender critical movement (the wide range of views and politics that share in common the idea that biological sex is dimorphic, or binary, and that…
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The Mayor of Supercity this week has given a textbook example of how not to communicate in a crisis. Friday: "It’s pissing down so no tennis." Saturday: "I've got to deal with media drongos over the flooding tomorrow so sadly no tennis for me tomorrow." Also…
You know how people like the Greens and climate activists bang on about the connection between social issues and environmental issues? And why Just Transition matters? Well, here's New Zealand's first major example visible to the mainstream: the climate-crisis-generated Auckland floods of the last week…
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