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Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, TV and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
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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 New Zealand Herald has released the results of its annual “Mood of the Boardroom” survey today. Should
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Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in-person private school for Year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-
Information Opinion If there is one thing I dislike about New Zealand politicians, it is cultural cringe: a disease that is seemingly universal and invariably leads to embarrassing behaviour. The most obvious signs of this affliction is the feeling of ‘Big Time’, of having ‘Made It’. Unfortunately when a politician
Darroch Ball Leader Sensible Sentencing Trust There have been comments from the Minister of Justice, and repeated in the media, about the recent youth crime wave being a so called ‘spike’. What they want is to create a message that it is ‘short term’, ‘fixable’, and ‘unexpected’. All of which
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Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura There is growing public concern with the Government’s Three Waters legislation that will take council drinking, storm and wastewater assets and place them in a convoluted governance arrangement. The concern has grown to anger as the public realise that the select committee process is
STEPHEN BERRY’S GUIDE TO THE 2022 AUCKLAND LOCAL ELECTION VOTING GUIDES “They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and, following the Absolutely Biased Guide to the Auckland Local Elections 2019, there are plenty of imitations popping up on the internet in 2022,” says political commentator and 2013
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When a bill on ACC payouts for firefighters and birth injuries was going through committee stage on Friday, National MP Maureen Pugh sought clarity on the cover for firefighters, who are at risk of cancer from toxic fumes. Deputy speaker Greg O’Connor shut down the discussion. Shadow leader MP
