Doofus of the week
The award for doofus of the week this week goes to David Bennett for one of the most nonsensical speeches Parliament has ever seen.
Green Party portfolio list
The Green Party have confirmed their newly assigned MP responsibilities.
TPP11 close to being signed?
Mesia reports suggest that a possible TPP11 agreement is close to being signed.
Beneficiary for life: the joys of permanent disability in present day NZ
What happens to long term beneficiaries who can’t increase their income with paid work?
Open Mike 10/11/2017
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Daily Review 09/11/2017
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Reserve Bank predicts economic growth under new government
Leaving aside the issue of economic growth as a panacea, Bill English and many who voted for him say it is the be […]
The new Pay Equity Legislation
National is trying to spin that Labour refusing to continue with National’s flawed pay equity legislation shows a lack of commitment to pay equity. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Bouquets for the new government
Mining, big data, social investment, paid parental leave, and pēpi in the House. The new government’s not mucking around remedying some of the previous government’s plunder and pillage policies.
Open Mike 09/11/2017
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TPP, Corporate Coup or “Free trade”?
However. TPP ( The trans Pacific partnership) is NOT a “Free trade” agreement. It is an attempt to cement in corporate power, to override inconvenient local Democracy, and collect rents from local communities in perpetuity.
Since when was giving large companies extra rights in law, and rights to extract even more economic rents, “Free trade”?
Daily Review 08/11/2017
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This TPP…
Some aspects of the TPP no-one’s mentioning.
The Missing Noun.
When they said they wanted to eradicate poverty, I didn’t suspect they simply meant to expunge the word.
Justice for Teina Pora
Andrew Little has announced that the Government will increase the payout to Teina Pora by adjusting for inflation and by paying costs on Pora’s successful judicial review of the previous Government’s decision.
Suck it up political sleazers.
Winston Peters has launched a legal fishing expedition to identify who exactly breached privacy on his superannuation over payments. A problem that he shares with about 50 thousand other pensioners. Unlike them, his problem wasn’t trying to find money to repay it. It was that the breach was deliberately timed to be a classic dirty politics ploy, almost certainly by National, in the leadup to the recent election. I wish him good fishing.
Open Mike 08/11/2017
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Daily Review 07/11/2017
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Build a bridge and get over it
Finally conceding the government’s majority, Bridges is complaining that Labour has struck back on his boss’ plan to obstruct the government on select committees by following through on his own plans to reduce their size.
The days of National dick waving
The spin that National are running is that they are unhappy with the move to reduce the MPs in select committees. That their dick size opposition party is the largest make me see teenage boys being idiots. Because there is no substantive difference to parliament from when this was recommended and now.
Paradise lost
The Paradise Papers have provided further evidence of a small group of very wealthy people are using complex trust arrangements based in tax havens to avoid paying tax.
Guns don’t shoot people, men do
Maybe it’s time to broach the elephant in the living room.
NRT: About time too
Idiot/savant writes about Labour’s legislation to extend paid parental leave.
Open Mike 07/11/2017
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Daily Review 06/11/2017
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Australia, you’re being a dick
Australia has refused New Zealand’s very generous offer to take 150 Manus Island refugees.
Labour and rural voters
In recent years Labour has allowed National to dominate rural politics. Maybe it is time for Labour to think about reaching out to rural voters and suggest to them that a progressive vote is in their interests.
Open Mike 06/11/2017
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800th Anniversary of Charter of the Forest
Issued alongside the Magna Carta on November 6, 1217, the Charter of the Forest is among the first ecological charters in history and among the first to assert the rights of ordinary people to the right to subsistence. 800 years old tomorrow.
Jian Yang and his residence application
Just before the election news broke that National MP Jian Yang had previously taught in a Chinese University training spies. A recent OIA release of his immigration application raises further issues.
Trust, Labour and the TPPA
A look at Labour’s PR around the TPPA-11, and a campaign by Action Station to stop the signing.
Open Mike 05/11/2017
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Home Sweet Home
The changing face of New Zealand.
So there was a housing crisis after all
The briefing to incoming Housing Minister Phil Twyford shows clearly that a crisis in housing developed under National’s watch.
The Green Party goals in government
“This is an incredible opportunity for the Green Party to make that good, green change that we’ve talked about – since ages ago!”
@realDonaldTrump does not exist
For a brief moment, the internets rejoiced.