As our leaders’ gambler’s fallacy – that their bad luck is bound to turn around, they just have to stay at the table – finally falls apart under the avalanche of evidence of terrible harms, establishment commentators are testing the waters of our restraint with the beginning of a mainstream pivot.
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Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. When I was young, kids appeared before a magistrate (a district court judge before 1978) sufficiently rarely that
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Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Labour government is currently fighting on multiple fronts that threaten its popularity in the run-up to
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura This week the Labour government forced their Three Five Waters legislation through parliament under urgency. The bill had come back from the select committee with no substantial changes, the select committee having refused to hear most of the submitters in person, despite the National committee
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It’s full steam ahead. National MP Simon Watts sent an email out yesterday saying: The government has been caught sneaking a rarely used, undemocratic legal provision into its Three Waters legislation, in an attempt to make it harder to overturn. This week, while parliament sat under urgency to ram-
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Helen Houghton New Conservative Co-Leader nc.org.nz Chronic truancy is not because parents don’t wake up in time to get their children to school as the National leader Christopher Luxon thinks and neither is it the fault of the majority of teachers or school leaders. As the
Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused
