There was some interesting news in a recent Radio New Zealand article where links between donations to National, Act and NZ First and entities who are getting the chance to have their fast track projects being prioritised under the Fast Track Approvals Bill were reported…
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https://twitter.com/wekatweets/status/1843937699377693045 Have to admit I've spent a fair amount of time in the last few weeks feeling not just gratitude but profound relief that I live in New Zealand. Not that we are immune, by any means, and I'm acutely aware that biggest crisis will…
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Auckland's local body elections are a year away. And all eyes will be on the Mayoralty which apart from the Prime Ministership would be the most complex and most difficult job in New Zealand politics. There has been a certain degree of despondency amongst the…
Mountain Tui has posted a couple of really important posts on health recently. His post on how the Government is creating a crisis so that it can privatise NZ healthcare strikes a real chord. We have seen 40 years of this sort of behaviour. The…
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As I spent nights and the weekend furiously drawing up different protest slogans, creating "No Privatisation" Facebook pages, organising and writing Reddit posts to advertise an upcoming 23-October NZCTU protest, I wondered to myself? "Where are the unions to the non-union members?" "Where are the…
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The details of the mysterious papers that Casey Costello relied on to overrule Official advice on decision to cut taxes on Heated Tobacco Products so that Philip Morris could get a $216 million tax cut have been disclosed. The papers do not support Costello's claim…
This is a repost of an article from the Mountain Tui substack Yesterday, there was an excellent interview on 1News Breakfast with Former Health NZ Chair Rob Campbell. He was being interviewed in response to the government signalling to privatising our hospitals. Campbell confirmed what…
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Blogging about politics right now is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. What topic do I choose? What about the cuts to Te Reo resources for teachers? Recently Erica Stanford decided to cut $30 million from Te Reo tuition on the basis that…
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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