Republished from System Change Aotearoa A year on from the 2023 general election, David Seymour responded to the latest One News-Verian poll, showing a 5% lead for the government, by gloating. “The coalition is working so much better than our enemies hoped!” Sad to say, but…
Andrew Bayley has committed the cardinal sin as far as National Party strategists are concerned, he has laid bare National's complete indifference to working people. From Radio New Zealand: Commerce Minister Andrew Bayly has apologised for his conduct after a complaint that he repeatedly called…
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This is an excerpt from Mountain Tui's substack article: Aotearoa's Big Lies Yesterday, Chris Trotter, who labels himself a "libertarian socialist" - and writes regularly for Newstalk ZB and other publications - came out swinging against opponents of David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill ("TPB"). Trotter…
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The Greens have clearly struggled with what to do about Darlene Tana. They have for some time opposed the Waka Jumping law. They have taken a principled view, that the law gives to the leadership of a party too much power and that it has…
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The Cook Strait Ferry issue is getting to a critical point. An announcement was expected in July. Willis said at the time that a decision was coming soon. But we are still waiting. And there is a growing sense that National's preference to remove rail…
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How many successful CEOs can manager Christopher Luxon snark at after running a government airline with a near monopoly on the domestic market? After taking a crack at ANZ Boss Antonia Watson for her support of Capital Gains Tax last month, a new line of…
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The Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill is due to have its second reading in Parliament soon. It was introduced by the last Labour Government and referred to the select committee process. When it was introduced then Minister Willow Jean Prime said this…
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This Government was elected 12 months ago. And I don't think any of us could have appreciated how bad it would have been. The public service has been decimated. Wellington is a shadow of its former self and the drying up effect of the flow…
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