Four cases of community transmission from the same family – presumably without an obvious cause. Lock down for 3 days in the Auckland super city area at level 3 starting noon Wednesday. Level 2 for everywhere else outside of Auckland. Allows time for contact tracing and a later decision once facts are known. Good response.
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Stats NZ want to use gender rather than sex as the default for data collection. But they’ve neglected to ask women about that.
News has emerged that a senior National Party figure rang talkback radio and made derogatory comments about National’s only Sri Lankan candidate in an apparent attempt to reduce her chance of being selected as National’s Auckland Central candidate.
Four very good reasons why you should vote Labour in this election.
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Ten reasons to vote against cannabis law reform this election.
Critics have dismissed the Jacinda Ardern government as being one of style over substance. This is unfair given the challenges this government has faced and the policy achievements it has had. However, it is a government that has much work to do if it wins a second term. And its over-reliance on Jacinda as party leader is a huge strategic risk, especially when the governments front bench is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be lightweight.
For a few days now Gerry Brownlee has been peddling this dog whistle conspiracy campaign that the Government is hiding bad news about Covid and we should all be really concerned.
Central to the Transition movement from the outset has been the idea of resilience. Usually framed as the ability to ‘bounce back’, it is seen in the Transition movement as being better imagined as the capacity to ‘bounce forward’, i.e. to use it as the opportunity to move forward to something better. How then to ‘bounce forward’ from COVID-19 in such a way that we also move to a way of doing things consistent with the scale of the climate crisis?
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National’s list has now been released and highlights selection problems that it has had this year.
More bad news for NZ First. It looks like their hope that Northland could provide a get out of jail free card is misplaced.
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The latest Roy Morgan poll is out.
Crusher?
Crushed!
Jacinda Ardern’s speech to the Labour 2020 campaign launch.
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In a sign of desperation National has trotted out John Key to campaign that the country’s success in containing Covid should be put to risk because of a misguided perception that it would be good for the economy.
A bit of shade, some Dad jokes, and the serious business of what the Greens have done.
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As climate, ecological, pandemic and neoliberal pressures put our food security at risk, we can take heart from the many people who have been developing and practicing sustainable and resilient food growing.
I normally do not do this, tempting fate and all that. But the forces behind this election are so strong that it would take a really dramatic event to change current momentum.
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With the left’s political fortunes having changed greatly in the past three years, and with more change on the way, does the left still want MMP?
Defying expectations official labour force data from Stats NZ released today shows that the unemployment rate dropped to 4 per cent from 4.2 per cent in the June quarter.
For a party that promised to be a policy factory National’s policy offerings are severely deficient.
Ruth Dyson has given a very funny very incisive valedictory speech in Parliament and will bow out of politics at this election. She deserves our thanks.
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Why have we fallen into the most boring and predictable election we’ve had since Bolger’s second term?
Learning to love the tax.
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