Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:08 am, April 13th, 2021 -
14 comments
Categories: election 2020, election funding, electoral commission, electoral systems, maori party, national
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The Electoral laws about donations are pretty clear. Receive a donation over $30,000 and you should tell the Electoral Commission about the report within the next ten working days. But the Maori Party and the National Party have both managed to recently breach this simple requirement.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 4:08 pm, October 31st, 2020 -
139 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, democratic participation, election 2020, greens, jacinda ardern, labour, referendum
Tags: cannabis
Which way are the Greens going to jump?
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 8:21 am, October 29th, 2020 -
35 comments
Categories: capitalism, jacinda ardern, labour, poverty, uncategorized
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We need to get the Labour government to focus on decreasing inequality and poverty in all its forms and effects. The new government needs to show that Labour has changed the country for good. Otherwise there’s no reason to vote for them in 2023.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:09 am, October 29th, 2020 -
55 comments
Categories: covid-19, election 2020, health, jacinda ardern, making shit up, spin, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: fox news
Fox News has seized upon a four month old video of Jacinda Ardern to suggest that New Zealand has a terrifying new response to the disease and are throwing people into quarantine camps.
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 8:49 am, October 24th, 2020 -
42 comments
Categories: election 2020, national, tech industry, uncategorized
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As National reels from the disastrous 2020 election result could a policy based on high tech agriculture represent a way back?
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 9:33 am, October 7th, 2020 -
83 comments
Categories: election 2020, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, national, paula bennett, same old national
Tags: matthew hooton
If a party wants to become Government there are a few characteristics that is has to have. Fiscal competence is one, unity is another. National currently has neither.
Written By:
Simon Louisson -
Date published: 3:00 pm, August 1st, 2020 -
13 comments
Categories: eugenie sage
Tags: e-waste, greenpeace, plastics, waste
Environment Minister Eugenie Sage this week announced the beginning of the end of Aotearoa’s unfortunate experiment with free-market waste management that has trashed our environment. It may be just a baby step, but moving away from a failed free-market approach seems a good first step.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 10:16 am, July 22nd, 2020 -
61 comments
Categories: jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, national, Politics, same old national, sexism, uncategorized
Tags: sexual violence
Judith Collins appears to be living by her motto, giving back double, and has made public allegations that a Labour Minister has engaged in inappropriate behaviour. But is this the best way to handle a sex scandal?
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:32 am, July 21st, 2020 -
267 comments
Categories: election 2020, making shit up, national, same old national, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: andrew falloon
Earlier this year National boasted that it had a strong team. But this was before two coups and the loss of seven MPs in the past few weeks, the latest for sending indecent material to a teenager which the leader initially described as a case involving mental health concerns.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 7:05 am, July 3rd, 2020 -
8 comments
Categories: greens
Tags: no right turn, rma
No Right turn on the undemocratic and Muldoonist nature of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020, and the Greens on why they opposed it and what they managed to get changed.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 7:05 am, June 29th, 2020 -
263 comments
Categories: ACC, benefits, disability, greens, welfare
Tags: GMI, Guaranteed Minimum Income, Poverty Action Plan, ubi, weag, wealth tax
The Greens’ audacious new social security policy, the Poverty Action Plan, places manaakitangi and compassion at the centre. It includes guaranteed income across the board for those in need, reorientating ACC to include illness and prioritise care, support for children and single and double parented families, and it pays for it all by taxing some of the assets and income of the wealthy.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 7:05 am, June 28th, 2020 -
15 comments
Categories: climate change, greens
Tags: rma
“In my view, this is one of the most significant policy changes to address climate change that we have done this term” – James Shaw
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 7:05 am, June 10th, 2020 -
9 comments
Categories: activism, community democracy, Disarmament, greens, police
Tags: arms down NZ, firearms, no right turn
We have a model of policing by consent and that means we need the vast majority of people to see as legitimate the style in which we’re policing and it’s been clear to me that there has not been acceptance of this as an appropriate style of policing in New Zealand. – Police Commissioner Andrew Coster
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 3:06 pm, May 24th, 2020 -
62 comments
Categories: australian politics, Dirty Politics, Economy, education, immigration, International, labour, national, political parties, Politics, Social issues, tertiary education, The Standard, todd muller, tourism
Tags: matthew hooton
The change of leadership inside of National is essentially meaningless. All it seems to have started is exposing the kind of internecine factional warfare that is lurking below their party surface. I can’t see the inexperienced National team, even with Amy Adams back in it, being able to make the kinds of long-term decisions required in a modern world.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:31 am, May 21st, 2020 -
93 comments
Categories: national, Nikki Kaye, paula bennett, same old national, Simon Bridges, todd muller, uncategorized
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Tomorrow the National Party caucus meet to decide on a leadership challenge mounted by Todd Muller and Nikki Kaye. Both parties obviously think they have the numbers. Which MPs are misleading them?
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 7:10 am, April 27th, 2020 -
16 comments
Categories: covid-19, economy, Environment, greens, jobs
Tags: native restoration
Most of the funding will go directly to employing people – the tools needed for wetland restoration such as spades and seedlings are far cheaper than big excavators and asphalt.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 7:10 am, April 17th, 2020 -
73 comments
Categories: election 2020, greens
Tags: Elizabeth Kerekere, green party list, green party list 2020, Ricardo Menendez March, Teanau Tuiono
The Green’s initial party list has three new candidates in the top ten.
Written By:
Mike Smith -
Date published: 3:55 pm, April 15th, 2020 -
60 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags:
According to Stephen Mills on Nine to Noon yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation as Labour leader will only be mourned by “the microscopic Rosa Luxemburg-worshipping far left sect in New Zealand.” His outburst was deliberate, gratuitous and way over the top.
Written By:
te reo putake -
Date published: 3:20 pm, February 19th, 2020 -
107 comments
Categories: bill english, Dirty Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges
Tags: bill english, dirty politics, jami-lee ross, national party
Name suppression has been lifted for the four National Party associates charged by the SFO.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:01 am, November 11th, 2019 -
99 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, global warming, greens, national, political parties, same old national, sustainability
Tags: vernon tava
The Sustainable Party, National’s sock puppet party designed to weaken the Greens has launched. And its policies for some strange reason have not put climate change front and centre.
Written By:
Bill -
Date published: 7:35 am, September 17th, 2019 -
38 comments
Categories: elections, International, Left, liberalism, social democracy, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, us politics
Tags: democratic party, election, Gabbard, sanders, US, warren
Breaking it down.
Written By:
te reo putake -
Date published: 5:32 pm, September 12th, 2019 -
252 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, jacinda ardern, Kelvin Davis, labour, Parliament, paula bennett, Politics
Tags: assault, Labour Party, Parliament
A second resignation has swiftly followed that of Labour Party President Nigel Haworth. The person from the Labour Party Parliamentary team accused of sexual assault has today quit his job.
Written By:
Incognito -
Date published: 4:17 pm, July 13th, 2019 -
52 comments
Categories: infrastructure, law and "order", police, public transport, transport, uncategorized
Tags: Auckland Airport, gun buyback, gun control, Koru lounge, MSSA, nzta, speed control, speed reduction, traffic, traffic fines, traffic speed, Waterview tunnel
A tunnel is like a wormhole to another dimension. It changes people’s behaviour ever so slightly, ever so briefly, without them realising.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:54 am, July 1st, 2019 -
30 comments
Categories: campaigning, Deep stuff, International, Media, Politics, uk politics
Tags: nigel farage
A review of the use of social media has suggested that the Brexit Party’s campaign was far superior to that of its opponents.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 9:10 am, May 13th, 2019 -
98 comments
Categories: child welfare, education, grant robertson, labour, nz first, Politics, schools, winston peters
Tags: chris hipkins
Reprinted with permission from the blogsite How Melulater sees it, an important backgrounder to the impending teachers’ strike.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 12:13 pm, April 8th, 2019 -
18 comments
Categories: business, capital gains, tax, taxpayers union, The Standard, you couldn't make this shit up
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The Taxpayer’s Union (not a real union) has hit peak irony by accusing another organisation of being an astroturf organisation.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:05 am, March 27th, 2019 -
23 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, australian politics, corruption, democratic participation, International, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: gun control, gun lobby, guns, koch brothers, nra, one nation, pauline hanson
Pauline Hanson’s One Australia party is trying to defend claims that it should funding to oppose gun restrictions from the NRA and the Koch Brothers by stating that its chief of staff was drunk.
Written By:
Incognito -
Date published: 2:57 pm, February 16th, 2019 -
32 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, journalism, leadership, making shit up, Media, national, political parties, politicans, Politics, rumour, same old national, Simon Bridges, vision
Tags: john armstrong, mythbusting, myths, trust, wizard of oz
The National Party is a sad, confused, slightly dazed white old man behind the curtain.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:01 am, February 11th, 2019 -
195 comments
Categories: climate change, Conservation, Environment, national, Politics, same old national, sustainability
Tags: sustainable nz, vernon tava
No friends National’s sock puppet party has now been announced.
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 1:19 pm, February 7th, 2019 -
226 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: Treaty of waitangi, waitangi, waitangi day
It was sure refreshing to see the current head of the National Party saying on Waitangi Day that teaching of New Zealand history should be compulsory in the New Zealand curriculum.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 11:25 am, August 19th, 2018 -
54 comments
Categories: blogroll, blogs, clickbait, David Farrar, dpf, journalism, Media, The Standard, video
Tags: morgan godfrey
Morgan Godfery of the excellent Maui Street blog has relaunched his blogsite and made it subscriber based. Is this the future of blogging in Aotearoa New Zealand?
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