NZ Politics
The National Party Needs to Go into Labour
The Labour Day holiday of 2020 prompts thoughts about what lies in store for our country’s immediate future following the landslide electoral success of a Labour government. What are the implications for Kiwis as they contemplate the likely consequences of three more years of social, economic and political tinkering
Daily News Roundup – 28 October 2020
Greens and coalition negotiations John Armstrong (1News): Don’t mistake Ardern’s talks with Green Party for kindness Richard Harman (Politik): Greens’ high stakes game carries a big risk Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour and the Greens: an inevitable embrace (paywalled) Phil Taylor (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern holds all the cards but
Do You Want Your Councillors to Oppose Maori Wards?
Hobson’s Pledge Trust hobsonspledge.nz Three more Northland councils will vote in the next few days on whether to introduce Maori wards so now is the time for you to email councillors to explain why such wards are racist and not wanted. The Kaipara District Council will vote on
The Earth’s Climate Is a Truly Wonderful Thing
John Rofe After 15 years of trying to figure out whether the “Warming Alarmists” or the “Climate Change Deniers” are right, I have concluded that the causes of climate change are almost totally natural…solar variability on the one hand (because the sun provides 99.9% of Earth’s energy)
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Jacinda Can Forget about COVID Fearmongering Now
Audrey Young tells me in the left-wing Weekend Herald headline, “Ardern looks ahead after digesting win and a whisky”. Well, she daren’t look back otherwise she’ll see what a dismal failure her first term was. All the key indicators in all the key areas were heading in
Dear Jacinda
Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet The New Zealand Labour Party led by the ever-popular Jacinda Ardern surged in this month’s election, trouncing National, the main opposition party. Labour gained 49.1 per cent of the vote and 64 of parliament’
Daily News Roundup – 27 October 2020
Labour Party and new Labour Government Andrea Vance (Stuff): ‘Labour Connect’ the data analysis tool that boosted Jacinda Ardern’s campaign Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Time for Govt to take some risks (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on her big win and big plans (paywalled) Audrey
Sometime in the Near Future Someone Will Be Killed and We Will Be Able to Blame Andrew Little
Andrew Little has signalled yet again that he is hell-bent on repealing the three-strikes law. God only knows why as the rationale for repeal is rather spurious: The law that resulted in a man being sentenced to seven years in jail for grabbing a prison guard’s bottom
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Show Me the Logic!
Press Release: New Conservative News came out this week that a shearer was given a 16-month prison sentence for killing a lamb because it frustrated him while shearing it. Christopher Tredinnick received the sentence in Cromwell this week, according to the New Zealand Herald. Meanwhile, only a few months