This is a repost of Mountain Tui's substack article: post Often when folks ask me what we can do about this government’s short sighted and often dubious policies, I frequently veer to a similar answer: Share information, stay aware, act locally where you can, stay…
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This really is Banana Republic stuff. At the same time the Government is saying to the good people of Dunedin they can't have the hospital they were promised because of cost the Government has allocated $216 million for a tax cut for a multi national…
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Last week was a big week in politics. The Government did a number of things each of which was deeply disturbing and deeply detrimental to our country. They included: Walking back on a promise which was used to attack Labour repeatedly, which was to provide…
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National is getting lots and lots of flack about its announcement that the plans for Dunedin Hospital are going to be scaled back. And it deserves every piece of opprobrium that is being thrown at it. Because on the scale of cynical breaches of pre…
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Bye, Bye hospital plans! Today Rachel Thomas reports - $3.2 billion is sleighted to come out of “hospital and mental health infrastructure projects”, and it seems the first formal casualty is Dunedin hospital, South Island. ODT reports former Labour Cabinet minister Pete Hodgson saying: “At…
Unfortunately for the Government the replacement ferry issue will not go away. And every week it seems to get worse. Previously they had placed great faith in private enterprise aka Bluebridge ferries providing a solution. But one of its ferrys losing power and drifting for…
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While working for Air NZ Luxon learned a thing or two about flying planes full of unwitting passengers. For example, he learned how to use the onboard intercom. “Kia ora! This is your captain speaking, my name is Chris Luxon and I’m the captain during…
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New Zealand has the most right wing government it’s had since Governor George Grey determined to eradicate all Maori power by systematic war and then systematic legislative theft in 1863. This government’s policies are pretty much identical to the quarry-enclave economy of British boom-bust cycles…
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The 2012 reforms of the Labour Party, which created a unitary Party, replacing a quasi-bimodal Party-Caucus model, were always, for me, a bad move. This view enraged Mr Trotter, who accused me of, sin of sins, “realpolitik”, but I remain convinced that the perverse effects…
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Unless you have been living under a rock or have been in an intense coma during the past few years you would have heard National spokespeople saying that gang membership numbers have surged under Labour many, many times. Labour was allegedly soft on crime and…