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The past fortnight has seen a number of breaking stories each of which raises concerns about the motivations and goals of this Government. It makes you wonder whether the pursuit of self interest is an embedded feature as opposed to a bug. Each story of…
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On Thursday Minister Jones launched his new pro-mining strategy in a rural village that was the actual birthplace of the Labour Party. "I deliberately chose to come to Blackball because we need to re-legitimise [and] reinvigorate mining," the former Labour MP said. "It's been abandoned…
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Greenpeace really packing it in here. The video is edited down, but here is five minutes of Russel Norman on fire, laying out the problems with the government's slash and burn economy, one after the other. https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/1793875329536380935 The Coalition Against the Fast Track are organising…
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces UK general election for Thursday 4 July https://youtu.be/q9-0WGo9Zrk?si=F_d4_IWdNgWA0GRU
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Benjamin Franklin observed that “You may delay but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” This came to mind when considering the reported outcome of last weekend’s Auckland regional conference of the Labour Party. Members were seized by the need for change.…
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In breaking news New Plymouth National MP David MacLeod apparently *forgot* to declare $178,000 in declarations to the Electoral Commission. From Radio New Zealand: National MP David MacLeod failed to declare 19 candidate donations worth $178,000 to the Electoral Commission, in what he says was…
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I attended the Auckland Regional Labour Party conference last weekend. It was very well attended, with more than 200 people there at its peak. What was really pleasing was that the average age of attendees has come down dramatically. There were many familiar older faces…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog The recent Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioners elections were a disaster for the Conservative Party as predicted by many. While I was not quite brave enough to predict the result of the London Mayoral race in my…
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Reposted From Eugene Doyle Solidarity A Public Policy and Advocacy Space Western leaders like to talk about values, shared values, common values. They talk about this a lot. America itself is obsessed with two things: conflict resolution through violence and moral preening. Nowhere is this…
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It is sickening to see how economic power is being used against ordinary New Zealanders right now. After the deliberate planning and execution of a recession by the Reserve Bank in the last year of the Labour government and this year, and the deepening of…
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