Rod Kane At some stage in the very near future historians will be coming back out of the bomb shelters to start writing about the last six years. It won’t be pretty. That’s not to say we are out of the woods and (mixed metaphor) now heading down
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com MSD released its annual report for 2022/23 [on Friday]. There is bad news. The average future years expected on a main benefit has increased yet again. The crosses below indicate failed direction of trend which is explained with: “This KPI did not meet the direction because
This week’s Political Agenda with Paul Brennan, Cam Slater, and Marty Gibson. Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? * For security reasons, credit card donations require Javascript. Please enable Javascript in
In recent days I’ve been reading Steven Joyce’s brilliant autobiography (an undeniable star performer of the Key/English Government). So much of the book is evocative in a pleasant, nostalgic way and I encourage you to purchase a copy. The passages in Joyce’s book dealing with his
Fritz, private secretary to Klouse (the K is silent) Swab, of the Wicked Eugenicist Fascists (WEF), cleared his throat in true secretarial fashion, to alert his despotic Führer to his presence in his office. Klouse opened a bleary eye and used it to direct a baleful glare at Fritz. “Vhat
Enjoy this sixth episode of Aotearoa Farm by Maree Buske. Move over Animal Farm… Aotearoa Farm is a modern-day online radio serial. Maree Buscke of Wednesday’s Counter Culture show shares with listeners her weekly instalments of the dramatic happenings on Aotearoa Farm (formerly known as Kiwi Farm). Squealer
Christopher Luxon’s working relationship with the Ardern Government will come back to haunt him when voters become more familiar with the unlucky 13 who made up the Ardern Business Advisory Council. In 2018 Jacinda Ardern appointed Christopher Luxon chair of a new Business Advisory set up to advise the
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Who will the new National Government listen to when it decides how to govern? An early indication may be seen
Here are the post-election replays of The Crunch. This week’s guests were Matt McCarten and Rachel Stewart, and we did an election post-mortem. Enjoy! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund
On Saturday the NZ public gave their vote to a party led by someone with very little political nous, Luxon, a leader that is all mouth and no trousers. His support will come from ACT’s leader, a schoolboy with no history of achieving anything except getting votes by promising
In my previous article I wrote about the babies that were reported to have been killed in Israel. I included the following link to an interview with a reporter from Israel: Another victim was mentioned in the interview, that I have left off for this article. I have not been
The election result has almost biblical connotations, such was the magnitude of the defeat. As one who believes religion and politics should be kept at arm’s length, I hesitate to draw any similarities. But politically speaking we have had the parting of the Red Sea of many of the
bobmccoskrie.com Despite the optimism, the significant effort of time and expense, the passion, the utter hard slog, the results are in for the minor parties. Politics is a brutal sport. Good on these parties for putting their hand up and being willing to get involved. We need their voice
For the last few weeks we have had to endure a general election campaign. It consisted of all sorts of promises, publicity stunts, claims, counterclaims, scares, opinion polls and media commentary. Then the electorate voted. Many New Zealanders found it all highly entertaining – especially when their man got stuck into
Chris Trotter Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz I ALWAYS WONDERED what it would take to detach the New Zealand working class from Labour. Not all of the working class, obviously, but enough to strip the party of the demographic heft that, for more than a century, has made it
Toby Boraman Massey University theconversation.com For an election ostensibly fought over a “cost-of-living crisis”, there was a strong unspoken consensus between the two major parties: most people’s living standards needed to be reduced to thwart inflation. Regardless of the election result, a form of austerity was
