Nicky Wagner seems to shy away from the hard stuff. First gazing dreamily out a window wishing she was somewhere else (when being addressed by Disability groups) and now a no-show at a debate about her City and Portfolio.
In Government the the Greens will create a blue whale sanctuary and a local ecotourism industry – to replace seabed mining and oil and gas.
Denis Tegg reports that the Government is hiding a second critical report on climate change until after the election.
National’s campaign video was created using actors who were not paid but handled petrol or shopping vouchers and wanted a young boy of “mixed blood” …
Take it with a bag of salt, but it certainly isn’t bad news for Labour.
Two excellent but very disturbing pieces in The Herald yesterday. This crisis in poverty, housing and health is a national disgrace. It is why we desperately need to elect a Labour led government in September.
I know I shouldn’t sweat the small stuff, but this piece by Rachel Smalley is full of lies about Labour. We deserve better journalism than this.
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Liberals depart and Liberals tank.
What we can learn about Collins, Adams and the national Cabinet from Teina Pora’s Judicial review win.
“Our integrity and our role as Ministers in holding confidential information is absolutely pivotal to our role” Bennett 2017
How many of these did you receive over your 7 years of over-payments?
Mike Hosking is decrying National’s cynical election campaign and release of its paid parental leave policy and claims that it is nothing more than a corrupt retail exchange.
The Standard has received real video from National’s campaign launch
The Greens have produced a video on what you need to do to vote internationally.
Peters is enraged by the presumed Nat hit on him over super. Earlier he was calling on Bill English to resign over the Barclay scandal. Given these conflicts, no one can have any confidence in a post-election Nat NZF coalition. They hate each other.
New documents released under the OIA show that Bill English fought hide his involvement with the Todd Barclay scandal from media and the public. Coverups and lies, English is unfit for office.
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National has announced a policy of increasing paid parental leave after complaining last year that it was unaffordable.
As the Nats stand exposed in another apparent dirty politics hit, Labour gets on with the job of winning the election. Jacinda Ardern today announced new policy: Making tertiary education and training affordable for all.
Labour has announced a Tourism and Infrastructure fund policy which will raise funds for conservation and infrastructure.
During the weekend one of National’s rising stars Amy Adams debates housing with Labour’s Phil Twyford. Adams was supremely confident but the data she relied on appears to have problems …
The hit job that has just been performed on Winston Peters is a sign of how desperate National is to divert attention from Jacindamania. But I suspect the attempt will backfire.
These three-minute documentaries focus on ‘diversity’, which is probably not a bad thing to ponder in the run up to an election.
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Mark Jennings: ‘A hundred or so young Chinese wearing blue T-shirts with “Blue dragons” written on the front marched in to the stadium in a highly-organised fashion. I randomly asked two of them why they had come. They seemed to find the question confusing but told me they were overseas students.’
Here’s the scandal.
Bomber Bradbury has succeeded in getting the Privacy Commissioner to rule that Police accessing his bank records without a search warrant was illegal.
More new policy from Labour yesterday on Christchurch. Giving locals a say in the decision making process – what a radical new idea!
