John Key’s claim that Labour and Greens support the rapists on Christmas Island has struck a snag. There are none. And the brave action of progressive women MPs talking publicly about the sexual abuse they have suffered has shown how morally bankrupt Key’s politics are.
Key and Carter have brought NZ international shame yet again. Males in a position of power using rape as a cheap political tactic and then punishing women for speaking up. Brighter Future.
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Newsworthy imagines famous political quotes – as Key might have said them. Perhaps Standardistas can add some more…
David Carter’s refusal to rule John Key’s “backing the rapists” comment out of order raises issues about his ability to properly do the job of speaker.
New Zealand’s bloody awful parliamentary debacle.
The latest celebrity gossip is that pseudo journalist Rachel Glucina’s naff website Scout is about to do the walk of shame. Karma’s a truly wonderful thing.
Was Key’s “outburst” in Parliament yesterday an outburst, or was it a strategy?
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Serial fondler of young persons’ hair and celebrity PM impersonator John Key lost it in Parliament today.
The barbaric treatment of New Zealand citizens by the Australian Government ought to attract condemnation and urgent diplomatic representations. But nothing is happening. Surely this is a time that John Key should get some guts. But instead of this he has accused the opposition of supporting rapists. Updated with video from Question one in Parliament today.
Anarchism, past and present.
Two liked and respected receptionists at Maori Television have lost their jobs because they are not fluent in Te Reo. But half of the executive are also not fluent speakers yet they retain their jobs.
Inequality is a choice. It isn’t a choice made by individuals, it is a choice made by governments. Check out Joseph Stiglitz’s new book Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity.
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Can’t be many more important campaigns than saving the planet right? Only people power will change the current economic levers which are designed […]
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Isn’t it amazing how many Ministers can’t wait to front up to the media when they are selling. But when it comes to after sale service they just don’t want to front?
The question of identity politics and Labour’s direction just never go away. But maybe we’re just thinking about it all wrong.
Kelvin Davis showed this video to the Labour Party conference on the weekend. Following news of the riot it has become a must watch.
When people are turning in these numbers to crowd-funding for treatment something is seriously, seriously wrong.
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Details of Andrew Little’s speech to be delivered today to the Labour Party conference.
Updated with the full text of the speech.
While pondering this post, I was pointed to a post from last year, in which poverty and the cost of breakfast were on the agenda. Stephanie was writing in response to the ignorance of Nikki Kaye who claimed that giving affordable nutritious breakfast to children was easy. While I haven’t taken the time to read all of the comments on the subject, I thought Stephanie proved the point quite aptly that the reality is far different than the hypothetical world of poverty in which Nikki Kaye lives.
Two recent events, one involving a WTO challenge to India’s subsidy for local Solar Panel manufacturers and the other the local review of New Zealand’s electricity grid suggest that the free market is not the best mechanism to use to create sustainable electricity supply.
Len Brown has announced that he will not contest the Auckland Mayoralty next year.
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The text of Grant Robertson’s speech to the 2015 annual Labour Conference.
National are rubbish at everything except politics. And that’s not politics in a good way.
Brook Sabin has suggested that the Labour Party conference is in crisis following the release of the TPP text. He must be at a different conference to the one that I am at.
Labour has positioned itself astutely in the run up to and early stages of its conference. Best news, there will be proper cooperation with The Greens next election.
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