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At the moment, the United States of America is headed towards full employment. Quibble about the stats if you like, but President Trump has been there long enough to make a difference irrespective of how much is directly attributable. He also seems to be making…
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Labour and Iain Lees-Galloway have managed to score the biggest up yours in politics for decades with the announcement that former National Prime Minister Jim Bolger has been appointed to a group tasked with returning industry wide bargaining. And the Nats are spitting tacks. From…
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The Northcote by election ought to be a walk in the park for National. It has been a Nationally held seat since 2005 and Jonathan Coleman's 6,210 candidate vote majority ought to be plenty. But things are getting quite strange in Northcote. There is clearly…
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On the face of it this is really disturbing behaviour. It has been alleged that National MP Parmjeet Parmar threatened to tell the employers of submitters to the Education and Workforce Select Committee what they had said in evidence if they did not withdraw their…
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Families living in poverty, those who rely on food banks have internalised the overt, covert and inadvertent negative discourse that keeps the poverty conversation focused on individual blame, while ignoring the systemic causes of the problem. ‘Two incomes not enough for Christchurch family seeking food…
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There were three contenders this week. David Farrar went close with his all out campaign against repeal of the three strike law. As part of his campaign he has been highlighting prisoners who are on their third strikes. Raw meat to the right wing masses,…
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It's not simply the obvious nonsense of the claim made by the Guardian and some researchers involved in a study looking at the environmental costs of various food production that pisses me off. It's the fact that their supposed solution rests on simple individual consumer…
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National obviously desperately want to divert attention away from the Housing Corp methamphetamine fiasco. After five days of continuous bad news who can blame them. There is no upside for them. Either they were incompetent because they did not know what was happening, incompetent because…
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The three strikes legislation, the brainchild of dead baby identity stealing former ACT MP David Garrett, looks like it will soon be no more. The legislation was a sports slogan masquerading as a serious penal policy. Its genesis is in the US of A where…
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The Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage, through Predator Free 2050 Ltd, have awarded $11.7 million of funding to controlling pests across Taranaki. This is a contribution to protecting 4,500 hectares of farmland surrounding Egmont National Park. That will create a virtual barrier by a network…
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A few years ago I was in awe of National's media management. They seemed to be bullet proof. When confronted with issues they would role out these simplistic responses that you knew had been focus grouped to within an inch of their lives. John Key…
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Simon cannot work out why Judith suggested he visits this place to campaign. Or why he has not yet met any ordinary New Zealanders.
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Remember the "Moment of Truth" in Auckland Town Hall just before the 2014 election when Glen Greenwald, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the NZ government's spying on us? I seem to recall that went down as foreigners interfering in democratic processes in…
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One of the many sensible early steps taken by Phil Twyford was to reverse Housing Corporation's insane policy on methamphetamine. Under the last Government it had a policy that any trace found in a Housing Corporation unit would start the process of getting the person…
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Looks like we have a New Zealand branch of One Nation being set up complete with the same sort of innate racism and reckless disregard of reality that its Australian cousin also has. One of the leading lights is Kym Koloni who was last year…
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Nope still not talking to any voters.
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