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Tipping vs fair wages
I don’t know of a single piece written in support of Bennett’s proposal. She has been in the bubble too long, and lost touch with the values of NZ.
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The UK elections – Has Labour got the big mo?
And in the United Kingdom the election that was meant to be a foregone conclusion suddenly is suddenly tightening.
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New Zealand’s Neoliberal Drift
In New Zealand, neoliberal reforms have widened inequality and undermined the country’s self-image as an egalitarian paradise.
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Campbell on the TPP cargo cult
Gordon Campbell: “The TPP has literally become a cargo cult ritual that’s being performed in the hope that someday, one day, the Americans will return, bearing gifts.”
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Four eyes and an arsehole
NZ with its various operations around this end of the Pacific really doesn’t need its own intelligence gathering operations blown by the current incompetent blowhard of the White House. Nor does anyone else who shares information with the US. That is the problem with Trump childishly boasting about the intelligence gathered by others merely to boost his ego.
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Macron and Trudeau mean yes for Ardern
The election of Trudeau in Canada and Macron in France suggest that the path to electoral success may be with younger fresh faced and untainted candidates.
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Stewart: “Dying days of democracy”?
Probably not, but after 9 years of Brighter Future / Dirty Politics it certainly can feel that way.
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Duck and Cover
Donald Trump is engaged in some over the top brinkmanship with North Korea which is increasing the prospects of at least a limited exchange of nuclear weapons.
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Craig wins rehearing in Williams defamation case
Colin Craig has had a major success in court with Justice Katz ordering a retrial on the basis that the award of damages by the Jury was excessive.
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Warnings on Auckland Housing
Warnings on the state of the Auckland housing market are coming thick and fast now. People who bought recently (at the peak of prices and low interest rates) are likely to get burned.
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China is in New Zealand to stay
At a time when the United States is reducing its diplomatic capacity and its willingness to enter into International Treaties New Zealand’s willingness to deal with China places it in an almost unique position in the western world.
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Spinoff series – rent week
While much of the coverage of the housing crisis focuses on buyers, the situation facing renters is just as bad. Last week The Spinoff ran an excellent series on renting in NZ: “It’s getting desperate out there”.
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Nick Smith is a disgrace
Abuse of power, Environment, national, Parliament, Politics, same old national, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit upIn a functioning democracy Nick Smith’s handling of the Resource Management Bill should result in him losing his ministerial warrant.
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International Women’s Day, 47 years on, how far have we come?
Test of a speech given by feminist icon Sandra Coney on the state of the feminist movement in 2017
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The gender pay gap – grandstanding but no action
A new report has some really interesting findings on the gender pay gap. Paula Bennett engaged in a bit of grandstanding, but it rings completely hollow given National’s history on the issue.
Happy International Women’s Day.
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Slightly smug about MMP
accountability, Deep stuff, democratic participation, election 2017, International, MMP, Politics, uk politics, us politics2017 will be New Zealand’s eighth election under MMP, over 22 years. With very strong democratically elected governments appearing right across the world digging in for the long term, it’s useful to take a moment for MMP.
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Green Party Member’s Bill to protect freshwater
The Green Party has launched a member’s bill that will keep water from underground sources, called aquifers, safe from pollution and contamination. -
He Kawenata ki Waenga i Te Roopu MANA me Te Paati Māori
The agreement between the Mana Movement and the Māori Party.
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Government will not support victims of domestic violence
Abuse of power, greens, labour, maori party, national, peter dunne, same old national, united futureThe Government is refusing to support Jan Logie’s bill aimed at helping the victims of domestic violence despite the bill receiving support from the ANZ and Business New Zealand supporting the bill going at least to select committee.
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Is this the impossibility turning point?
Deep stuff, democratic participation, Economy, Globalisation, labour, national, poverty, workers' rightsThere’s a wonderful fiction still propelling the world that the 21st century will bring an ever-expanding arc of freedom and prosperity to the vast majority of humanity but the reality seems to be anything but.
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Sad
Ad wonders how left wing Trump supporters are now feeling.
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Minimum wage increase doesn’t meet real costs (the CPI is broken)
Any increase in the minimum wage is better than nothing, but National’s increases have not kept pace with the real cost increases (notably housing) faced by low income earners. That is why we are seeing the rise of the working poor, and increases in homelessness and poverty.
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Pauline Hanson declares jihad on Vegemite
australian politics, International, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit upPauline Hanson is upset that vegemite has achieved Halaal status.
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Israel threatens sanctions against New Zealand
Israel has responded to New Zealand’s principled stand in seeking to uphold the rights of Palestinian citizens by threatening sanctions.
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Well done Murray McCully
Murray McCully has had New Zealand co sponsor a successful Security Council resolution condemning Israel for violating International Law through its resettlement policy.
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Military assessment of climate change
Guardian: “Unchecked global warming is greatest threat to 21st-century security where mass migration could be ‘new normal’, say senior military”.
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Politik on Labour/ Greens
I was rather amused reading Politik’s “Despite the pact Shaw takes on Robertson“ and was struck by the strange way that some political commentators (and probably some politicians) view the world at the political coalface. They really need to start to think about political parties as being like any other organisation. Tactical compromises without a strategic focus will always kill any organisation – eventually.
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Beware of Spin Doctors and Spin Professors
On the same day that the pollsters in the world’s most advanced democracy were shown to have got things terribly wrong a Professor in New Zealand says that National will win next year because of polling data.
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Labour’s Auckland light rail announcement
National is criticising Labour for releasing policy during an election campaign.
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Tax-cuts or… Education
National’s dangling tax cuts, but there are far more important things to be spending public money on. Today: Education.
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Darren Watson 2 John Key 0
Abuse of power, brand key, election 2014, john key, Media, national, Politics, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit upThe Court of Appeal has ruled that Darren Watson’s Planet Key song should not have been banned during the 2014 election campaign.
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Helen Kelly: Just plain good
I’m going to miss you, mate.
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The crime spike
Judith Collins, national, national/act government, Politics, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitifulWho would have thought that a surge in homelessness would result in a spike in crime, and that a dramatic increase in the number of people with no or compromised housing situations would cause an increase in burglaries, robberies and assaults.
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Chloe King – John Key, I am a low waged worker, and neither “lazy” nor “drug addled”
business, class, jobs, john key, national, paula bennett, Politics, same old national, unemployment, wages, workers' rightsBlogger 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.
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Little’s Big Parliamentary ‘Member’
Andrew Little fully fronts up.
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Take the power back
The Jobs That Count campaign isn’t just about Talley’s AFFCO. It’s about getting local councils that work for all of us and make sure that the big businesses in our communities give back to us.
