Bill blames the blowout in emergency housing grants on the “hidden homeless”. Hidden only from those who will not see. Hidden only from a government that deliberately chooses for political reasons not to collect the relevant data.
Some folks Bill knows are telling him stuff and he’s basing immigration policy on it. The facts say otherwise. Bill English is full of shit and it’s time that more media called him on it.
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Angela Warren-Clark (Tauranga Women’s Refuge manager) for Bay of Plenty and Jan Tinetti (Principal) for Tauranga. These are the kinds of grounded, real-world perspectives that we need in Parliament.
The Government’s estimate of the extent of the housing crisis has recently been shown to be totally out of touch and to add further pathos it is counting kiwi families urgently housed in motels in tourism statistics.
I’m used to hearing some pretty pathetic excuses out of the National government. But this will really take some beating.
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James Shaw addresses Green Party candidates and shares their vision for Aotearoa New Zealand
An excellent piece by Pike River mum, Sonya Rockhouse, in today’s Sunday Star-Times. The full article is here, but here are some of the most important points…
With the right in ascendancy throughout the Western World what does the left do to change this?
The media have responded to the Mt Albert by election result by raising the prospect of Jacinda Ardern becoming deputy leader of the Labour Party.
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It is day 37 of Donald Trump’s reign as POTUS. Today he decided to attack elements of the press that have been critical of him by banning them from a press conference.
Surprising no one: “A newly declassified report obtained by Fairfax Media reveals Australia’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was undertaken solely to enhance our alliance with the US.”
Being tenants in our own country is starting to look like the good old days.
It is election day today in Mt Albert for the successor to David Shearer.
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Water is both the front line and the rallying cry.
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All the best to all candidates, and thank you to Julie Anne Genter and Jacinda Ardern for showing us all such a model of cooperation.
This is what you get with a hasty, reactive, “top down” policy process.
The Government intends to change the definitions of various indicators in an effort to solve some of the country’s most serious problems.
The Crown is seeking to overturn the Court of Appeal decision obtained by Forest and Bird which is preventing Conservation land in the Hawkes Bay from being used for the controversial Ruataniwha dam.
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So National’s great plan for swimmable rivers by 2040 is to allow twice as much shit in them and still call them “swimmable.”
That Orwell was ahead of his time.
Someone should ask English whether he still believes the opinions stated in the press release, and if not, why not?
The left is facing the possiblity of its fourth election loss in a row. What type of campaign should it run this year to win?
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What if we based our politics on relationships not power?
Willie Jackson is using his return to the political spotlight to good effect.
