No Right Turn: “The real barrier to National … acting on this is because that “no-one owns water, first come, first served” policy disproportionately benefits one group and allows them to profiteer from a public resource while destroying its value to others. That group is farmers – and they donate to the National Party.”
Last night ONE News had an important exclusive on Syrian-born Kiwis who say they are being subjected to “intrusive and unnecessary searches” at our border, including demands to pass over social media passwords. This needs an investigation, and if some officers are crossing the line, it needs to be dealt with quickly.
Nicky Hager’s latest book is to be launched this Tuesday at Unity Books in Wellington.
Multinationals exploit our tax laws to pay no tax in NZ. Matt Nippert has been doing great work on this, and his latest this weekend on Apple is a powerful example. Planned changes to our laws don’t go far enough. We need to fix this. What’s the downside? What’s the delay?
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With John Key’s imminent departure from Parliament attempts are being made by the media to sum up his reign as Prime Minister.
What if our production methods were designed to produce health, beauty, and permanence?
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The Winston Peters take on it:
“Come on. Tell us something we don’t know”
Yes indeed.
They were still digging themselves deeper yesterday. The latest attack tells us more about National than it does about Ardern.
If, instead of macho posturing (like the “War on P”), we wanted to actually tackle substance abuse, we would be looking at what actually works. Interesting case study in Iceland.
And now for something completely different.
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Climate change is the most important issue of all time. Beyond the politics and the maths and the fear there is simply doing the right thing.
I guess it’s good that some parts of the world are going nuts at a slower rate than others?
We will be discussing Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher.
National’s nasty, obvious, hamfisted attack on Jacinda Ardern has backfired on them big time.
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Excellent speech from Andrew Little in Parliament yesterday, on the government’s willful blindness to the housing crisis.
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In the followup to the rape culture protests, Hekia Parata has overruled Paula Bennett, and consent will not be taught in schools.
The proposed Republican replacement of Obamacare will, surprise surprise, result in lower benefits, reduced coverage and a tax cut for the wealthy.
Who has been feeding Bill English the latest alt-right attack language?
The attack on Ardern as “all show and no substance” is a curious one for a party that was led for so many years by John Key.
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Key’s act was was well and truly blown, and he’s moving on without, I suspect, a backward glance, at a job that his heart was never really in.
Married couple, increase after tax $8.36 a fortnight each or $4.18 each a week!!!!! Disposable Income, 0.5971428 each a day !!!! Goes up on April 1st, how the hell did they arrive at this sum?
I find out.
The Resource Amendment Legislation Bill is being debated in Parliament this week. It is a total re-write of the Resource Management Act 1991. It has some good points in it, but it also includes a number of matters which will have a severe impact. This is a critique of those points.
Maori Party Co-Leader, Marama Fox, is playing hardball over Nick Smith latest attempts to weasel out of commitments on the deeply flawed RMA changes that National has spent the last few years trying to find any support for in Parliament. The bill is crap. The Maori party should just drop it regardless how many baubles they think they will get from it.
The idea of free market efficiency is not nearly as powerful or universal as its (often fanatical) proponents would have us believe. The sorry state of the USA’s health system is yet another compelling example of its limitations.
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In a functioning democracy Nick Smith’s handling of the Resource Management Bill should result in him losing his ministerial warrant.
