Phil Twyford: the future of housing in New Zealand
The text of an important speech from Phil Twyford where he talks about the 6th Labour Government’s plans for housing.
Corbyn vs bankers
“When bankers like Morgan Stanley say we’re a threat, they’re right.”
Open Mike 03/12/2017
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National’s benefit sanctions – the wolf is not your grandma
The tories seem to have found a new angle on the government’s removal of benefit sanctions that punish the children of beneficiaries who […]
Tenancy Stuff.
How’s about private tenants in New Zealand were warm, dry and secure? Too big an ask?
Marama Davidson – Honouring Influential Women
“Our role in Government is to protect and support the work that these grassroots influential women are doing. Our role is not to continue to create and place barriers in their way.”
Open Mike 02/12/2017
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Daily Review 01/12/2017
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The chaos of the Trump White House
From tweeting fake anti muslim videos to supporting the Senate race of an alleged child molester who was banned from a mall because he was so creepy to acting to remove his Secretary of State for thinking that he is a moron to passing a bill that will help the rich and hurt the poor while denying this is the case the Donald Trump White House is a chaotic place.
The NZ Government passes Health Homes Guarantee Act
“Every New Zealander deserves a warm, healthy home to live in, and the Health Homes Guarantee Act will help ensure that”
Open Mike 01/12/2017
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Daily Review 29/11/2017
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All aboard for awesome public transport
What’s actually behind the employment discontent in New Zealand’s public transport? Turns out its the rule changes National brought in. CTU Secretary Sam Huggard blogs from Together.
Progress from the Labour led government
Just over one month in the new Labour led Government and it is time to measure progress.
Open Mike 30/11/2017
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Introductory ramble to save you Googling me
Hi. I’m Enzo (yes that’s my real name) and I write for The Standard now. Just thought I should introduce myself and tell […]
Key and Mass Surveillance: Was this the reason for the Golriz distraction?
David Fisher has written an in-depth article for the Herald that suggests that John Key’s promise, three years ago, that the Government had cancelled the Speargun project which would have allowed for the mass surveillance of New Zealanders was not actually correct.
Daily Review 29/11/2017
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Joyce’s multi billion dollar budget hole
It appears that Steven Joyce was right about there being a multi billion dollar hole in the Government’s finances. But not in the way claimed.
Phil Quin: our media’s goto dogwhistling Aussie
It always disappoints me in NZ is who our local media consider are ‘left’ or ‘labour’ commentators. They are usually strange and weird relics of left behind who frame their commentary in terms of long past history. Phil Quin, a grizzled veteran misogynist of the 1990s Thordon Bubble who thrives on chaos and ill informed dog whistles, is one of them. It isn’t like he knows much about NZ politics. Updated.
Open Mike 29/11/2017
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Daily Review 28/11/2017
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Thank-you Golriz
ffs NZ, get a grip. Then have a think about fairness and what kind of society we want.
Up the spout, round the bend and down the tubes.
It’s no longer really working out (kicking the AGW can down the road), but we seem to be hooked into a peculiar form of madness even as everything appears to be coming apart at the seams. It’s beyond me…
Right loses its shit after former criminal lawyer discovered to have acted for bad people
Elements on the internet have claimed that Green MP Golriz Ghahraman must be a genocide supporter because she once acted as a defence lawyer in a war crimes tribunal.
Can a Labour led Government win the tax debate?
Why National is currently winning the debate about tax and what Labour needs to do to change this.
Why New Zealand should support the Tongan League team and forget about the Americas Cup
The Tongan national league team has invigorated Auckland in a way I have not previously seen basically for nothing. Meanwhile Team New Zealand and the Americas Cup are demanding hundreds of millions of dollars for economic benefits that the recipients should be paying for.
Open Mike 28/11/2017
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Daily Review 27/11/2017
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Breaking: Libertarian opposes free speech
Don Brash has emerged from his crypt once again to tackle the greatest problem facing New Zealand today (in his strange little world) […]
Appalling men and great art
There have been some great artists face some appalling allegations. Would they have been as successful if their great crimes had been exposed?
National spams the Beehive
National has been clogging Parliament’s written question system by asking questions that even David Farrar thinks seem silly and are over the top.
Open Mike 27/11/2017
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Once again: National lost the election
A rebuttal of Nick Smith’s claim to have “won the 2017 election, but lost the coalition negotiations.”
Net Neutrality and New Zealand
Trump’s administration has recently set course to repeal Net Neutrality in the USA. What does that mean for New Zealand, and should we be considering stronger regulation here?
Invisibill
The media have noticed that Bill English has recently been missing in action. And pretenders to his throne are starting to play up.