Conservation Week
It’s Conservation Week. We should all go and enjoy the great outdoors this weekend… but be careful of the polluted rivers and the wallabies. But at least we’ll be pest-free by 3300…
Open Mike 17/09/2016
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Daily Review 16/09/2016
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Rockstar! Is it?
National is very proud of the latest GDP-growth figures (third highest in OECD!), but are they helping you? And are they what they appear?
Translating the local government election jargon
The PSA has produced a nice guide to cut through all the buzzwords in local body elections.
Fortress NZ
TS regular Tony Veitch has some practical ideas as to how we insulate NZ from the ravages of neoliberalism and climate change. Readers may agree with some, none or all of the suggestions. However, whichever way you look at it, the time for hand wringing is over. It’s time for action.
The other war of the polls
The Dominion Post has received not one, but two polls on the Wellington mayoralty. So who’s coming out on top?
Stop the Sanctions!
Auckland Action Against Poverty is trying to get a sanction on sole mothers removed.
Open Mike 16/09/2016
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Daily Review 15/09/2016
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Maori Party to make a stand?
The Maori Party are threatening to pull out of their confidence & supply agreement with National. This would leave National with a Hair-thin majority in the House. The Kermadec Sanctuary, if handled with competence instead of arrogance, should have been a massive win for National.
Right-wing mayor candidates try to kneecap themselves
Vic Crone isn’t sure humans are causing climate change, Palino doesn’t think Auckland is all that super, and Mark Thomas just wants people not to vote for Goff… It’s hardly an enticing bunch.
Open Mike 15/09/2016
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Beware, creepy men of the right: Rawshark returns (briefly)
An old handle flickered back into life briefly this afternoon: In 2014 I dumped: https://t.co/UhZSYEYyar — Whaledump2 (@whaledump2) September 14, 2016 Rawshark – presuming […]
Daily Review 14/09/2016
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Labour Organising
From the UK. Organising 101.
Parliamentary Services is snooping on MPs’ emails
It appears that Parliamentary Services is monitoring MPs emails. And not just for things such as spam and viruses.
Optimism, determination and, above all, unity
At the Guardian, UK Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey reflects on the first year of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Open Mike 14/09/2016
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Daily Review 13/09/2016
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The trouble with polls
Labour has released its latest UMR polling which shows a dramatically different result to that of the latest Colmar Brunton poll.
New Zealand is a socialist nirvana *
* at least according to David Seymour.
India’s general strike
The world’s biggest general strike ever occurred this month in India.
Open Mike 13/09/2016
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Latest Colmar Brunton: NAT 48%, LAB+GR 39%
National stays steady as she goes on 48%. Labour is down 3% to 26%.
Daily Review 12/09/2016
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The homeless crisis is getting worse
Figures provided by the Government to Labour suggest that providing accommodation for families with chronic housing needs is taking much longer than it did six months ago. But Paula Bennett has replied by suggesting that the figures do not reflect reality.
Open Mike 12/09/2016
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Lose yourself in the music
While we’re enjoying the popcorn at Williams vs Craig, there’s another enjoyable court case coming next year shortly before the election…
The manipulation of burglary statics
Reporter Eugene Bingham who broke the story on how Papakura police were doctoring crime statistics by recoding burglaries as other offences two years ago has written about how his attempts to get to the truth of the matter has effectively been thwarted by the police.
Open Mike 11/09/2016
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Big Oil in plain packaging
Big Tobacco was hit this week in New Zealand after Parliament passed laws requiring smokes to be sold in plain packaging. The science about the health threats posed by smoking is settled, as is the science over climate change. When can we expect laws being passed against the oil companies?
Rally for Democracy
Details of the Rally for Democracy event in Auckland today.
Open Mike 10/09/2016
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Daily Review 09/09/2016
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Chloe King – John Key, I am a low waged worker, and neither “lazy” nor “drug addled”
Blogger and social activist Chloe King, one of the hundreds of thousands of low waged workers in this country was devastated by John Key’s comments suggesting that she and others were lazy and had no work ethic. This is her response.